mxODBC Zope DA 1.0.9 released

Introduction

The mxODBC Zope Database Adapter (Zope DA) allows you to easily connect your Zope installation to just about any database backend on the market today, giving you the reliability of the commercially supported eGenix.com product mxODBC and the flexibility of the ODBC standard as middle-tier architecture.

Unlike Zope's ZODBC Zope DA, the mxODBC Zope DA works on Windows, Linux (32-bit and 64-bit), Mac OS X, Solaris and FreeBSD using the same interface on all platforms.

The mxODBC Zope DA implements high performance thread-safe connection pooling and multiple physical connects per logical Zope connection. You can safely run Z SQL Methods in parallel, achieving a much better throughput than ZODBC Zope DA or similar Zope database adapters under heavy load. This makes it ideal for deployment in ZEO Clusters and Zope hosting environments where stability and high performance are a top priority.

New in this Release

The new version includes a number of enhancements which make the mxODBC Zope Database Adapter even more robust and reliable.

The adapter includes a new, more careful connection pool management and options to adjust the result set size in a more flexible way.

We are very pleased to also include a build for Mac OS X with this release. This will make connecting your Zope or Plone installation on Mac OS X to local or remote databases a breeze.

Starting with this release, we will now ship binaries for both Unicode build variants of Zope: UCS2 and UCS4. Most recent Linux distributions come pre-built with the UCS4 variant, e.g. SuSE 9 and 10, RedHat 9. We will also provide 64-bit versions wherever possible.

More Information and Download

For more information please visit our website at http://zope.egenix.com/
or follow this link to the mxODBC Zope DA product page on zope.org.

We provide binary versions available for Zope 2.3 through 2.7, supporting Python versions 1.5.2 through 2.4, on all major Zope platforms: Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, Solaris and FreeBSD.