# New York Times releases DBSlayer

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**Created:** [February 19, 2008, 4:29pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/new-york-times-releases-dbslayer/252377 "2008-02-19T16:29:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![Tampa1adam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4bbf92/32.png) [@Tampa1adam](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Tampa1adam)\
**Post date:** [February 19, 2008, 4:29pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/new-york-times-releases-dbslayer/252377/1 "2008-02-19T16:29:04Z")

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For more info check out:  
[http://code.nytimes.com/projects/dbslayer](http://code.nytimes.com/projects/dbslayer)

Once installed and configured, [DBSlayer starts up a DBSlayer daemon on port 9090 which acts as a proxy for the backend MySQL server. This proxy can then be [URL=“http://code.nytimes.com/projects/dbslayer#ExampleUsage”]queried via HTTP. The response from the query is returned in the [URL=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSON”]JSON](http://code.nytimes.com/projects/dbslayer) format.

These techniques combined, in my opinion, work GREAT for [AJAX](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AJAX) applications.

DBSlayer is built on top of the cross-platform MySQL and Apache Portable Runtime libraries and has been tested on Linux and Solaris-x86 boxes but should work on more machines! A source package for Unix systems can be [[COLOR=#0000ff]downloaded here[/COLOR]](http://code.nytimes.com/downloads/dbslayer-beta-10.tgz).