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Data Access Products Appropriate for Use on Web servers

ADOExpress
Borland / Inprise Yes, ADO works well in web server contexts, as it has build in connection pooling
Adonis Component Suite
Cybermagic Productions Adonis, based on ADO, is very well suited to web application; a core design strength of ADO is it light overhead and support for many simultaneous threads.
Apollo
Vista Software Yes, with Apollo Client-Server
Diamond ADO
Timur Islamov Yes
Free ADO DataSet
Larry Nezar Yes
KaAdo
Kiril Antonov Yes, ADO is very well suited to web application use
mODBC
Savelyev Konstantin Yes
ODBCExpress
Korbitec Yes, as an ODBC-based solution ODBCExpress benefits from ODBC's Connection Pooling, which is designed to improve performance in a web server environment.
Oledb Direct
Viatcheslav V. Vassiliev Yes

Note on Web servers:

Often it seems that nearly all computer product, from word processors to printers to databases, claim to be related to the Web in some way.   In fact, any product listed on this site could be used in a web application server. However, web application servers, as they scale up, often require their database to support a high level of concurrent activity : lots of connections and transactions at the same time on one server.  Microsoft felt this was so important that it was an important goal in the design of their newest data access solution, ADO.

Therefore, to be listed in the Web section, a product must have some kind of special support for use on a web server, which addresses the need for high concurrency in some way.

 

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