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mxODBC Connect is a commercial client-server product that allows connecting Python to ODBC compatible databases running on remote servers without requiring an ODBC driver on the client side. | mxODBC Connect is a commercial client-server product that allows connecting Python to ODBC compatible databases running on remote servers without requiring an ODBC driver on the client side. The product uses mxODBC on the server side and provides a highly portable Python library for the client side. As such it supports all database backend that mxODBC supports, but allows connecting to these from many different Python-supported platforms. |
ODBC
ODBC stands for Open Database Connectivity, the industry standard for database C APIs.
Most databases ships with ODBC drivers, so chances are high that you can use one of these drivers together with a Python ODBC interface to connect your Python application with any database on the market.
DB API 2.0 Drivers
mxODBC
- URL
- License
- eGenix Commercial License 1.3.0
- Platforms
- Windows 32/64-bit, Linux 32/64-bit, MacOS X 10.4-10.6 32/64-bit, FreeBSD 32/64-bit, Solaris, AIX
- Python versions
- 2.3 - 2.7
Commercially supported ODBC database interface from eGenix.com; actively maintained since 1997.
Supports Windows, Mac OS X, iODBC, unixODBC and DataDirect ODBC driver managers. Is known to work with these ODBC drivers: MS SQL Server Native Client, MS SQL Server ODBC Driver, FreeTDS ODBC Driver, Oracle Instant Client ODBC Driver, IBM DB2 ODBC Driver, Sybase ASE ODBC Driver, Netezza ODBC Driver, Teradata ODBC Driver, PostgreSQL ODBC Driver, MySQL ODBC Driver, .MaxDB ODBC Driver as well as the ODBC driver sets of EasySoft, DataDirect, OpenLink, Actual Technologies.
pyodbc
- URL
- License
- MIT
- Platforms
- Windows, Linux, MacOS X, FreeBSD, Solaris, Any (source provided)
- Python versions
- 2.4 - 2.6
Actively maintained Open Source project.
Precompiled binaries are available for Windows. RedHat Enterprise Linux, Centos, and Fedora have precompiled RPMs available in their Extras repositories.
ceODBC
- URL
- License
- Platforms
- Windows
- Python versions
mxODBC Connect
- URL
- License
- eGenix Commercial License
- Platforms
- Windows, Linux, MacOS X, FreeBSD, Solaris, AIX
- Python versions
- 2.3 - 2.6
mxODBC Connect is a commercial client-server product that allows connecting Python to ODBC compatible databases running on remote servers without requiring an ODBC driver on the client side. The product uses mxODBC on the server side and provides a highly portable Python library for the client side. As such it supports all database backend that mxODBC supports, but allows connecting to these from many different Python-supported platforms.
ODBTPAPI
- URL
- License
- Platforms
- Python versions
win32 odbc
- URL
- License
- PSF and others
- platforms
- Windows
- Python versions
This interface is rather old and unmaintained, but listed here since it started the Python DB-API specification development.