ODBC Connector
The ODBC connector uses the Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) interface and provides standards configurations for database connection. Any ODBC-compliant application can access any DBMS.
The proposed API implements the standard ODBC functions (78) and additional specific ones. This way, it ensures the conformance to ISO 92, ODBC and the Open Group designations. Therefore, it contains all Minimum and Core SQL grammar and an extended set of statements and datatypes that support common DBMS extensions (to SQL) to ensure the proper ODBC driver SQL conformance level. Hence, the ODBC connector offers access for MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle and DB2 DBMS. It proposes several options as:
- Establishing connections
- Connection options (charset, connectTimeout, dateStrings, …)
- SSL options
API Connector expose the capabilities of the underlying DBMSs and are not required to implement capabilities not supported by the DBMS. Examples of technologies picked for the development of this API connector are: Yeoman, Loopback, Node.js mysql npm package, Node.js npm package.