Quick and Easy ODBC Driver Development for Industry-Standard, High-Performance Data Connectivity

 

SimbaEngine's ODBC SDK supports a wide variety of implementations to meet your project and system requirements. The SimbaEngine ODBC toolkit includes all the components you need to deploy your ODBC driver as a single tier, two-tier or three-tier standards-based solution.

 

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Implementing an ODBC Data Interface

 

Building an ODBC driver with SimbaEngine's ODBC SDK is quick and easy. The SimbaEngine ODBC toolkit includes comprehensive documentation, code samples and step-by-step examples, enabling you to implement your ODBC driver in as little as five days.

 

Need assistance? Receive complimentary support with direct access to Simba's ODBC product engineers available to answer your questions, troubleshoot and help guide your evaluation development effort.

 

If you require end-to-end ODBC driver development services, we also have you covered. Simba engineers can build you a customized ODBC driver to your exact specifications. Ask us how.

 

 

Key ODBC Features

 

The SimbaEngine ODBC toolkit provides you with a complete set of components to quickly, easily and cost-effectively implement a full-featured ODBC driver. Following the ODBC SDK's comprehensive documentation, you can choose to add an array of pre-defined functionality to easily deploy a fully-optimzed ODBC driver ideally suited to your data connectivity requirements. SimbaEngine ODBC SDK supports the latest data standard advancements to ensure the utmost interoperability with ODBC standard-based products in the marketplace.

• ODBC 3.52 Support – SimbaEngine ODBC SDK supports the ODBC 3.52 specification, as well as custom metadata and attributes for greater flexibility.
• Unicode Support – SimbaEngine ODBC SDK provides Unicode support for character sets of all international languages. This allows your customers to access their data in virtually any language, resulting in the widest interoperability. Unicode capable ODBC drivers also improve performance and remove the restrictions inherent in Unicode and ANSI mapping.
• 32- and 64-bit Support – SimbaEngine ODBC SDK natively supports both 32-bit and 64-bit platforms, including Windows, Linux, Solaris, HP-UX, AIX and Mac OS. In addition, 32-bit and 64-bit platforms will interoperate across the client/server connection.
• Support for SQL and Non-SQL Data Stores – SimbaEngine ODBC SDK supports both SQL-enabled and non-SQL data stores. Non-SQL data stores can use Simba’s SQL Engine to provide SQL processing. SQL-enabled data stores will use SimbaODBC to provide ODBC 3.52 processing.
• Collaborative Query Execution – SimbaEngine ODBC SDK’s innovative Collaborative Query Execution allows your data store to execute the parts of the query for which it is designed and dynamically leave the rest of the query to be executed by Simba SQL Engine. Because Simba SQL Engine does not redundantly execute the same parts of the query as your data store, your SimbaEngine ODBC SDK data driver delivers the full performance of your data store.
• Dynamic Indexing within the SQL Engine – Simba SQL Engine supports dynamic indices creation on joining columns when no such indices exist. This speeds up table joins exponentially for faster data access and information retrieval.
• Pass-Down Processing – Table filters, joins and aggregations can be passed down to your data store for execution if your data store is optimized for those functions.
• Stored Procedures – SimbaEngine ODBC SDK supports Stored Procedures.
• Scalar Functions – Support is provided for over 60 scalar and aggregate functions.
• Custom SQL Data Types – Your ODBC driver can choose to implement behaviours different from those provided by the SDK.
• Custom Data Converters – Your ODBC driver can choose to implement data conversion routines that are the most efficient possible for custom data formats.
• Interval Data Types – All 13 interval types defined by ODBC 3.52 are fully supported.
• Maintainability & Extensibility – SimbaEngine ODBC SDK uses the object-oriented paradigm, allowing you to extend features, as well as upgrade to newer versions with ease and predictability.
• Full Localization Support – All messages from the SDK and specific to the ODBC driver can be localized.
• Data Driver Samples/Template – SimbaEngine ODBC SDK’s Quickstart Driver Template is specially designed to provide you with sample code and sample data from which you can quickly build your custom ODBC driver.

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