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Welcome to HDBC, Haskell Database Connectivity

Welcome to HDBC, Haskell Database Connectivity.

HDBC provides an abstraction layer between Haskell programs and SQL relational databases. This lets you write database code once, in Haskell, and have it work with any number of backend SQL databases (MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, ODBC-compliant databases, etc.)

HDBC is modeled loosely on Perl's DBI interface, though it has also been influenced by Python's DB-API v2, JDBC in Java, and HSQL in Haskell.

HDBC is a from-scratch effort. It is not a reimplementation of HSQL, though its purpose is the same.

HDBC has many features.

HDBCis written by John Goerzen. It is licensed under the LGPL.

Starting Points

Using This Site:

Downloads: Source and Binaries

  • Source releases are available from the downloads area on this site; just click the Files tab above.
  • The latest development trees are available via Git; see below.
  • You can find Debian packages from the HDBC Debian Page
  • RPMs and packages for many other Linux and BSD distributions are also included with your distribution.

Contributing to HDBC

You can always download the source from the Downloads page and attach diffs. But it's far better, both for you and for me, if you use Git.

Please see our 5-Minute Git Guide. You can check out the HDBC repository with:

git clone git://git.complete.org/hdbc

You can also help by adding information to this wiki.

Mailing List

I encourage the use of the haskell-cafe mailing list for questions and discussions about HDBC. Gmane has made available excellent archives of this list as well.

Forums / Web Boards

They're available and hosted right here. Just click the Forums tab above.

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