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The driver that Microsoft provides in MDAC is called the SQL Server ODBC Driver (SQLODBC), and (as the name implies) is designed for Microsoft's SQL Server. It supports SQL Server v6.5 and upwards. [3] ODBC allows programs to use SQL requests that will access databases without having to know the proprietary interfaces to the databases. It ...
Free and open-source software portal; unixODBC is an open-source project that implements the Open Database Connectivity API. [2] The code is provided under the GNU GPL/LGPL and can be built and used on many different operating systems, including most versions of Unix, Linux, Mac OS X, IBM OS/2 and Microsoft's Interix.
The application uses ODBC functions through an ODBC driver manager with which it is linked, and the driver passes the query to the DBMS. An ODBC driver can be thought of as analogous to a printer driver or other driver, providing a standard set of functions for the application to use, and implementing DBMS-specific functionality.
A standalone version of the Jet 4 database engine was a component of Microsoft Data Access Components (MDAC), and was included in every version of Windows from Windows 2000 on. [9] The Jet database engine was only 32-bit and did not run natively under 64-bit versions of Windows.
Oracle's OLE DB Driver; Oracle's ODBC Driver; Oracle's .NET Data Provider, ODP.NET; Microsoft's ODBC Driver for Oracle; Easysoft's ODBC-Oracle Driver; Trolltech's Qt C++ toolkit OCI driver (QOCI) Due to the complexity of the OCI API, several easier-to-use OCI wrapper libraries also exist, such as: the open-source libsqlora8 library (deprecated).
The ODBC driver needs to be installed on the client machine. Not suitable for applets, because the ODBC driver needs to be installed on the client. Specific ODBC drivers are not always available on all platforms; hence, portability of this driver is limited. No support from JDK 1.8 (Java 8).
OLE DB providers are analogous to ODBC drivers, JDBC drivers, and ADO.NET data providers. OLE DB providers can be created to access such simple data stores as a text file and spreadsheet, through to such complex databases as Oracle , Microsoft SQL Server , Sybase ASE , and many others.
Within a week of the InterBase 6.0 source being released by Borland on 25 July 2000, [4] [5] the Firebird project was created on SourceForge. [6] [7] Firebird 1.0 was released for Linux, Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X on 11 March 2002, [8] with ports to Solaris, FreeBSD 4, HP-UX over the next two months.