• Sybase

Note that there are Sybase ASE and Sybase SQL Anywhere systems. Those two are completely different database engines.

Sybase ASE

URL

http://www.sybase.com/ase

licence

Commercial

platforms

Unix, Linux, Windows

DB API 2.0 Drivers

python-sybase

URL

http://python-sybase.sourceforge.net/

Licence

Platforms

Python versions

The older versions of this driver are available at http://www.object-craft.com.au/projects/sybase/.

mxODBC

URL

http://www.egenix.com/products/python/mxODBC/

Licence

eGenix Commercial License

Platforms

Windows, Linux, MacOS X, FreeBSD, Solaris, AIX

Python versions

2.4 - 2.7

mxODBC is compatible with the Sybase ASE ODBC drivers on Windows and Unix.

mxODBC Connect

URL

http://www.egenix.com/products/python/mxODBCConnect/

License

eGenix Commercial License 1.3.0

Platforms

Client: all Python platforms; Server: Windows, Linux

Python versions

2.5 - 2.7

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.

mxODBC Connect supports asynchronous query execution via the popular gevent package, provides secure certificate based authentication, SSL encrypted database connections, comes with full support for stored procedures, multiple result sets, Unicode, a common interface on all platforms and implements many other useful features.

mxODBC Connect Server is compatible with the Sybase ASE ODBC drivers.

Sybase SQL Anywhere

URL

http://www.sybase.com/sqlanywhere

licence

Commercial

platforms

Unix, Linux, Windows, MacOS X

DB API 2.0 Drivers

mxODBC

URL

http://www.egenix.com/products/python/mxODBC/

Licence

eGenix Commercial License

Platforms

Windows, Linux, MacOS X, FreeBSD, Solaris, AIX

Python versions

2.4 - 2.7

mxODBC is compatible with the Sybase ASE ODBC drivers on Windows and Unix.

sqlanydb

URL

http://code.google.com/p/sqlanydb/

Licence

Apache License 2.0

Platforms

Unix, Linux, Windows, MacOS X

Python versions

2.4 or newer with ctypes module

This a Google Code project providing a python interface to the SQL Anywhere Database.

Supported Python Applications

Django

URL

http://code.google.com/p/sqlany-django/

Licence

New BSD

Platforms

SQL Anywhere 11.0.1, Django 1.0.2 or 1.1

Python versions

2.4 - 2.6

This is a Google Code project allowing SQL Anywhere to be used as a backend database for the Django web framework.

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