title: MySQL: which API to use?
body: <p>I'm just getting started with interfacing to MySQL from a C++ app. The app is pretty simple: it's a Linux web server, and the C++ code retrieves JavaScript from a local database to return to the client via Apache and Ajax. The database will contain no more than a few thousand short JavaScript programs.</p>
  
  <p>Question: any advice on which API I should use? I'm just reading through the docs on dev.mysql.com, and there doesn't seem to be any good reason to choose one or other of libmysql, Connector/C, Connector/C++, MySQL++, or Connector/ODBC. Thanks. </p>