Originally, SOCI was developed by Maciej Sobczak at CERN as abstraction layer for Oracle, a Simple Oracle Call Interface. Later, several database backends have been developed for SOCI, thus the long name has lost its practicality. Currently, if you like, SOCI may stand for Simple Open (Database) Call Interface or something similar.
"CERN is also a user of the SOCI library, which serves as a database access layer in some of the control system components."
-- Maciej Sobczak at Inspirel
GitHub hosts SOCI source code repository, issues tracker and wiki: https://github.com/SOCI
Project website at http://soci.sourceforge.net Release downloads and mailing lists at http://sourceforge.net/projects/soci/
Travis CI service at https://travis-ci.org/SOCI/soci
The SOCI library is distributed under the terms of the Boost Software License.
Core:
- C++ compiler
- Boost C++ Libraries (optional, headers only)
Backend specific:
- Firebird client library X.Y
- MySQL client library X.Y
- ODBC implementation X.Y
- Oracle OCI library X.Y
- PostgreSQL client library X.Y
- SQLite 3 library X.Y