# opendbx mit Homebrew, apk, dnf, Nix, pacman installieren Prüfe Installationswege, Executables, Metadaten und Sicherheitshinweise für opendbx in AI-Agent-Workflows. ## Installation ```sh sudo av install brew:opendbx ``` Weitere Installationsbefehle: ### macOS - Homebrew (100%): ```sh brew install opendbx ``` Evidenz: local Homebrew formula metadata ### Linux - apk (92%): ```sh sudo apk add opendbx ``` Evidenz: Alpine Linux edge package indexes: opendbx from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz - dnf (92%): ```sh sudo dnf install opendbx ``` Evidenz: Fedora Rawhide package metadata: opendbx from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/07190dc5ae9f35ae73866675fed6d95fe6e8d9fe22c9d7cdf85862cb2ed24a4c-primary.xml.zst - Nix (92%): ```sh nix profile install nixpkgs#opendbx ``` Evidenz: nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/op/opendbx/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1 - pacman (92%): ```sh sudo pacman -S opendbx ``` Evidenz: Arch Linux sync databases: opendbx from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/extra/os/x86_64/extra.db.tar.gz ## Paketfakten - **Paketschlüssel:** brew:opendbx - **Paketmanager:** Homebrew - **Version:** 1.4.6 - **Quellzusammenfassung:** Lightweight but extensible database access library in C - **Homepage:** - **Generiert:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00 ## Executables - odbx-sql (Alias) ## Installationsverhalten - Bottle: nicht verfügbar ## Version und Aktualität - Seite generiert: 2026-08-03 - Manager-Version: 1.4.6 ## Projektgeschichte und Nutzung OpenDBX is a small C database-access abstraction layer built around a single API over multiple native database client libraries. Its niche is the classic systems-programming problem of letting a C application switch among SQL backends without carrying separate code paths for each driver. ### Projektgeschichte The project was developed by Norbert Sendetzky and documented on Linuxnetworks as a lightweight, extensible C library. A 2006 Linux.com announcement for OpenDBX 1.0 described that release as a stability and completeness milestone for a clean open-source API over native database libraries. ### Adoptionsgeschichte OpenDBX reached Unix packaging ecosystems rather than becoming a dominant database layer. Debian split the source package into a core library, development package, and backend packages for Firebird, MSSQL, MySQL, ODBC, PostgreSQL, SQLite 3, and Sybase, which shows the library's intended deployment model: install only the backends an application needs. ### Wie es verwendet wird Developers use OpenDBX when they want C code to issue SQL through one compact interface while still linking against native database client libraries underneath. The bundled `odbx-sql` command-line tool gives packagers and operators a direct way to exercise the abstraction layer. ### Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren OpenDBX is interesting because it is a pre-ORM, C-level answer to database portability. The package layout exposes the practical dependency problem: the small common library is simple, but useful distribution requires backend-specific binary packages tied to the target database clients. ### Zeitleiste - 2006: OpenDBX 1.0 was announced as the first major stable milestone for the C API. - 2007: A development release added a prototype ODBC backend, indicating continued work on broadening the backend set. ### Related projects - The project overlaps historically with other low-level database abstraction layers such as unixODBC and libdbi, but OpenDBX's docs emphasize a small native-client wrapper rather than a full ORM or SQL builder. ### Quellen - - - - ## Sicherheitshinweise broad file, network, media, or database tool signal. - **Geiger-Risiko:** blue / mittel - broad file, network, media, or database tool signal ## Andere Paketmanager-Einträge - Nix - opendbx: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/op/opendbx/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1 - apk - libopendbx - 1.4.6-r2: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: libopendbx from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Database abstraction layer | https://www.linuxnetworks.de/doc/index.php/OpenDBX - apk - libopendbxplus - 1.4.6-r2: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: libopendbxplus from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Database abstraction layer | https://www.linuxnetworks.de/doc/index.php/OpenDBX - apk - opendbx - 1.4.6-r2: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: opendbx from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Database abstraction layer | https://www.linuxnetworks.de/doc/index.php/OpenDBX - apk - opendbx-backend-mysql - 1.4.6-r2: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: opendbx-backend-mysql from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Database abstraction layer | https://www.linuxnetworks.de/doc/index.php/OpenDBX - apk - opendbx-backend-postgres - 1.4.6-r2: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: opendbx-backend-postgres from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Database abstraction layer | https://www.linuxnetworks.de/doc/index.php/OpenDBX - apk - opendbx-backend-sqlite - 1.4.6-r2: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: opendbx-backend-sqlite from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Database abstraction layer | https://www.linuxnetworks.de/doc/index.php/OpenDBX - apk - opendbx-dev - 1.4.6-r2: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: opendbx-dev from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Database abstraction layer (development files) | https://www.linuxnetworks.de/doc/index.php/OpenDBX - dnf - opendbx - 1.4.6-44.fc45: normalized package name match | Fedora Rawhide package metadata: opendbx from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/07190dc5ae9f35ae73866675fed6d95fe6e8d9fe22c9d7cdf85862cb2ed24a4c-primary.xml.zst | Lightweight but extensible database access library written in C | http://www.linuxnetworks.de/doc/index.php/OpenDBX - dnf - opendbx-devel - 1.4.6-44.fc45: normalized package name match | Fedora Rawhide package metadata: opendbx-devel from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/07190dc5ae9f35ae73866675fed6d95fe6e8d9fe22c9d7cdf85862cb2ed24a4c-primary.xml.zst | Development files for opendbx | http://www.linuxnetworks.de/doc/index.php/OpenDBX - dnf - opendbx-firebird - 1.4.6-44.fc45: normalized package name match | Fedora Rawhide package metadata: opendbx-firebird from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/07190dc5ae9f35ae73866675fed6d95fe6e8d9fe22c9d7cdf85862cb2ed24a4c-primary.xml.zst | Firebird backend - provides firebird support in opendbx | http://www.linuxnetworks.de/doc/index.php/OpenDBX - dnf - opendbx-mssql - 1.4.6-44.fc45: normalized package name match | Fedora Rawhide package metadata: opendbx-mssql from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/07190dc5ae9f35ae73866675fed6d95fe6e8d9fe22c9d7cdf85862cb2ed24a4c-primary.xml.zst | MSSQL backend - provides mssql support in opendbx | http://www.linuxnetworks.de/doc/index.php/OpenDBX - dnf - opendbx-mysql - 1.4.6-44.fc45: normalized package name match | Fedora Rawhide package metadata: opendbx-mysql from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/07190dc5ae9f35ae73866675fed6d95fe6e8d9fe22c9d7cdf85862cb2ed24a4c-primary.xml.zst | MySQL backend - provides mysql support in opendbx | http://www.linuxnetworks.de/doc/index.php/OpenDBX - dnf - opendbx-postgresql - 1.4.6-44.fc45: normalized package name match | Fedora Rawhide package metadata: opendbx-postgresql from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/07190dc5ae9f35ae73866675fed6d95fe6e8d9fe22c9d7cdf85862cb2ed24a4c-primary.xml.zst | PostgreSQL backend - provides postgresql support in opendbx | http://www.linuxnetworks.de/doc/index.php/OpenDBX - dnf - opendbx-sqlite - 1.4.6-44.fc45: normalized package name match | Fedora Rawhide package metadata: opendbx-sqlite from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/07190dc5ae9f35ae73866675fed6d95fe6e8d9fe22c9d7cdf85862cb2ed24a4c-primary.xml.zst | SQLite 3 backend - provides sqlite3 support in opendbx | http://www.linuxnetworks.de/doc/index.php/OpenDBX - dnf - opendbx-sqlite2 - 1.4.6-44.fc45: normalized package name match | Fedora Rawhide package metadata: opendbx-sqlite2 from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/07190dc5ae9f35ae73866675fed6d95fe6e8d9fe22c9d7cdf85862cb2ed24a4c-primary.xml.zst | SQLite 2 backend - provides sqlite2 support in opendbx | http://www.linuxnetworks.de/doc/index.php/OpenDBX ## Combined YAML source View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/opendbx.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/opendbx.yml) ## Quellen - pkg.so package database - Geiger risk classifier - curated package history - pkgdb category and tag curation - external package-manager database matches - cross-ecosystem install command graph