Where to Get an ODBC Driver Manager

The two main ODBC driver managers for Unix are iODBC and unixODBC.

iODBC (Independent Open DataBase Connectivity) is an Open Source platform independent implementation of both the ODBC and X/Open specifications. iODBC provides both an ODBC driver manager and an SDK that facilitates the development of database-independent applications. iODBC includes a GTK+-based administration tool.

iODBC has been ported to numerous platforms, including: Linux (x86, Itanium, Alpha, Mips, and StrongArm), Solaris (Sparc & x86), AIX, HP-UX (PA-RISC & Itanium), Digital UNIX, Dynix, Generic UNIX 5.4, FreeBSD, MacOS 9, MacOS X, DG-UX, and OpenVMS.

unixODBC provides Unix applications with the same ODBC 3.51 API and facilities available under Windows. unixODBC provides a Driver Manager that supports the full ODBC API and performs the ODBC 3 to ODBC 2 translations with UNICODE to ANSI conversion. unixODBC also includes a set of graphical utilities that allow users to specify connections to DBMSes to be used by applications, a collection of ODBC drivers including a simple text based driver, an NNTP driver, a Postgres driver and others, and a selection of templates and libraries that to aid in the construction of ODBC drivers. unixODBC works with MySQL, Postgres, StarOffice/OpenOffice, Applixware, iHTML, PHP, Perl DBD::ODBC, and many other applications and drivers. Connection pooling is also provided to increase performance with applications such as PHP. unixODBC includes a QT-based administration GUI.