PEAR MDB is a merge of the PEAR DB and Metabase PHP database abstraction layers. It provides a common API for all RDBMS. It features data type abstraction, various fetch modes, emulation for sequences, replace, prepare/execute, row limit, support for LOBs, transactions, XML-based schema management, the PEAR framework, and wrappers for both PEAR DB and Metabase.
