Oracle Data Access Components Alternatives

Oracle Data Access Components

Oracle Data Access Components (ODAC) is a library of components that provides native connectivity to Oracle from Delphi, C++Builder, Lazarus (and Free Pascal) on Windows, Mac OS X, iOS, Android, Linux, and FreeBSD for both 32-bit and 64-bit platforms. ODAC, a high-performance and feature-rich Oracle connectivity solution, is an efficient native alternative to the Borland Database Engine (BDE) and standard dbExpress driver. It provides both possibility of connection to Oracle by means of native Oracle data access and direct access to Oracle without Oracle Client.
Key Features:
- Mac OS 64-bit is supported
- Oracle 19c is supported
- OS authentication in the Direct mode is supported
- NChar literal replacement is supported - RAD Studio 10.4 Sydney is supported
- Linux in RAD Studio 10.2 Tokyo support
- Lazarus 2.0.8 and Free Pascal 3.0.4 support
- Oracle Encryption in the Direct mode support
- AppMethod support
- Direct Mode support. It is also distributed as source code and is available for Lazarus.
- Android application development support
- iOS development support
- NEXTGEN compiler support
- Mac OS X development support
- Win64 development support
- Direct access to server data. No need to install of other data provider layers
- VCL, LCL and FMX versions of library available
- In Direct mode does not require Oracle client software and works directly through TCP/IP
- Full support of the latest versions of Oracle and its data types
- Disconnected Model with automatic connection control for working with data offline
- Local Failover for detecting connection loss and implicit re-execution of certain operations
- Automatic data updating with the TOraQuery, TSmartQuery, and TOraTable components
- Advanced script execution functionality with the TOraScript component
- Integration with OraDeveloper Tools and dbForge Studio for Oracle for advanced database development
- Oracle Advanced Queuing support