Oh MySQL AB, why do you need to make things so difficult? As far as I can tell, it’s at least five clicks from the MySQL Workbench product information … gulfstream/2200
How to Kill Mysql Performance » SlideShare
Microsoft's New Database Cloud Ready to Rumble with Amazon | High Scalability
new hosted distributed database from microsoft. not sql--more like amazon's simpledb, couchdb, etc.
tinydb.org
read/write small amounts of data. (you can't provide your own key though--seems like a problem, especially on retrieve.)
Flags and Lollipops - Bioinformatics Blog: LAMP performance for dummies (e.g. me)
how to improve mysql performance on medium size databases (i.e. 5-10 simultaneous users, 0.5 million rows)
Oracle Instant Client Downloads
oracle client and libraries for connection to oracle databases (many platforms)
EVDB - The Events & Venues Database
Php Object Generator (v1.5 rev3) - Open Source Object Relational Mapping PHP Code Generator
ha in any other language the orm would be a library, in php at least one person thought it would be a good idea to dynamically write the code...
Database Description « WordPress Codex
symfony Web PHP Framework » Chapter 8 - Inside The Model Layer
a much better description and explanation of the propel's object-model than is available on the propel site.
Doctrine - Open Source PHP 5 ORM
supposedly inspired by hibernate