i can't speak to the high-level wrappers, but the native C API for MySQL is atrocious, the one for PostGres is meh, and the OCI is also (in my very limited expe

i can't speak to the high-level wrappers, but the native C API for MySQL is atrocious, the one for PostGres is meh, and the OCI is also (in my very limited experience) also meh. sqlite's C API (its core-most product) is a dream to use in comparison to its competitors.