Problem Some utilities quickly need to get a value from the DBMS. However setting up a tcp scoket, having de dbmsd pass it of to a handler and a teardown is relatively expensive for just a get. Solution a proxy which bundles the requests. A simple 'GET' based proxy which is contineously connected to a specific DBMS backend and table. Locally it exposes a unix domain socket; to which applications can quickly and efficiently connect, get a value, and disconnect. Usage --- for testing: ./dbmsproxy -U -X dbms://localhost/test100 or in the background: ./dbmsproxy -p /var/tmp/test100.sock dbms://localhost/test100 Put some data in the db vi test.pl perl test.pl And fetch it ./dbmsget -d /var/tmp/test100.sock or echo foo bar | ./dbmsget