There is a wealth on ODBC implementations that are completely or
almost compatible to this interface. In addition, a number of databases
are delivered with an ODBC compatible interface. This implies you get
the portability benefits of ODBC without paying the configuration and
performance price. Currently this interface is, according to the
PHP documentation on this
subject, provided by Adabas D, IBM DB2, Solid, and Sybase SQL Anywhere.
The SWI-Prolog ODBC interface was developed using
unixODBC and MySQL
on
SuSE Linux.
On MS-Windows, the ODBC interface is a standard package, linked
against
odbc32.lib.
