R2DBC for SQL Anywhere

[former_SQLA_member1694890]

We are looking R2DBC (Reactive Relational Database Connectivity) driver for SQL Anywhere DB. May be are examples for using R2DBC with SQL Anywhere DB

Thanks in advance, Hanan Brener

[Breck_Carter]

There are no R2DBC drivers for SQL Anywhere listed on https://r2dbc.io/drivers/.

Auntie Google doesn't have anything useful to say when you search on "R2DBC" "SQL ANYWHERE"

[VolkerBarth]

But as R2DBC is open source, and there already is a MS SQL driver, and SQL Anywhere speaks TDS, too, so how hard can it be to build a driver for SQL Anywhere? 🙂

[Breck_Carter]

> how hard can it to build a driver

LOL!

Seriously, it looks pretty hard to me.

[VolkerBarth]

Well, before I wrote my comment, I had actually taken a look at the MS SQL driver code expecting I would be able to somehow grab how the real database connections are handled (or how they are bound to a known database API). But I was not successful. Probably that is the point of the "reactive approach" that it does not make use of an underlying common "blocking" DB API.

Apparently I am not in the position to estimate how hard that really is if one is familiar with R2DBC...