PHP always lacked an out-of-box library for database abstraction, but only until the advent of PDO (PHP Data Objects). PDO earlier existed as a PEAR package (plugin libraries for PHP).

A data modeler should abstract where necessary; and for the database model, “necessary” means when certain organizational objects are fluid or will change, or perhaps when business folks are still ...

Apervita announced Tuesday that it has added Carta Healthcare's AI-powered abstraction technology to its platform's interoperability layer, with a goal of enhancing quality measurement tools.