Accessing the database using JDatabase

Supported Storage Connectors

The table below outlines the database and storage connectors available for Joomla! as well as which version of Joomla they became available in.

To make a connector available in Joomla's installer or global configuration manager, you will need to ensure the PHP library is installed (E.g. for PHP5 and MySQL the php5-mysql library would need to be installed).

Database	Joomla Versions
MySQL
Postgresql
Microsoft SQL Server
Microsoft SQL Azure
Oracle DB
SQL Lite
PHP Data Objects (PDO)*

• PHP Data Objects is a database abstraction layer and is shipped with PHP 5.1+.