Oracle¶
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Oracle¶
- URL
- FAQ
- Wiki
- Wikipedia
- license
commercial/proprietary; free for development from Oracle Technology Network; Oracle XE is free for production and development (and an excellent option all-around)
- platforms
Unix, Linux, win32, win64
Pros¶
Reputation for being capable of handling large scale databases
Typically the database system others compare themselves to
Cons¶
Usually requires bloated Oracle client installation on any machine that the app will run on
Frequently the subject of migration discussions (to alternatives), usually for reasons of cost
DB API 2.0 Drivers¶
cx_Oracle¶
- URL
- licence
- platforms
Unix, win32
- Python versions
2.5 - 3.2
- Oracle versions
10i - 11g
- Last release
5.1 (March 19, 2011)
DCOracle2¶
- URL
- licence
ZPL
- platforms
Unix, win32
Python versions
:
- Last release
1.3beta (Feb 10, 2003)
DCOracle2 targets Oracle 8i and up.
There also is DCOracle (http://www.zope.org/Products/DCOracle/) for the older Oracle 7 and 8 versions, but this is unmaintained.
mxODBC¶
- URL
- Licence
eGenix Commercial License
- Platforms
Windows, Linux, MacOS X, FreeBSD, Solaris, AIX
- Python versions
2.4 - 2.7
mxODBC is compatible with the Oracle ODBC drivers on Windows and Unix, such as the ones included in the Oracle Instant Client.
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.
OJDBC and JayDeBeApi¶
- URL
- licence
LGPL
- platforms
Any (requires Java)
- Python versions
Tested on CPython 2.6.6 and Jython 2.5.2
- Oracle versions
Any supported by Oracle’s JDBC drivers (currently 8.1.7 to 11.2.0.2.0)
- Last release
0.1 (2010-08-16)
No InstantClient required. Download an Oracle JDBC driver (the filename will be something like ojdbc6.jar) from the Oracle website, and set the classpath to include the driver. Note that if not running under Jython, JPype is required. Use code like the following:
1 environ['JAVA_HOME'] = '/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre' 2 jpype.startJVM(jpype.getDefaultJVMPath(), '-Djava.class.path=ojdbc6.jar') 3 conn = jaydebeapi.connect('oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver', 'jdbc:oracle:thin:user/pass@server:1521:dbname')
mxODBC Connect¶
- URL
- 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 Oracle Instant Client ODBC drivers.