good combination of a c++ toolkit/library, cross platform db (not necessarily sql)

Question

Hi

what do you suggest as a cross platform "almost all encompassing" abstraction toolkit/library, not necessarily gui oriented?

the project should at some point include an extremely minimal web server and a "db" of some sort (basically to have indexes/btrees, maybe relations, so a rdbms is desiderable but avoidable if necessarily, sql might be overkill)

i was thinking about qt, boost, tokyo cabinet and/or sqlite; what else? what is "best suited"?

i would like to keep platform customization and overall execution footprint at minimum...

thank you in advance

Answer 1

For a minimal webserver, I think you're fine using Boost.Asio and sqlite -- it's quite portable, and should have everything you need. Remember that the C/C++ runtimes also provide portable abstractions for many things, so be sure to check those first (especially if a minimum overhead is required -- it might be simply easier to use C runtime functions than Boost.Filesystem).

Answer 2

You can also look at Firebird as a cross platform database

Answer 3

You should definitely take a look at Poco.

Answer 4

For my own similar purposes I use mongoose for web serving and sqlite for the database. Both are very high-quality products, but unfortunately are written in C. However, they are very simple to embed in C++ applications, and I have written simple C++ wrappers for both of them.