About OpenLink Universal Data Access

Secure and High-Performance Drivers for ODBC, JDBC, ADO.NET, OLE DB, and XMLA

In today’s hyperconnected data-driven economy, your ability to access, transform, contextualize and distribute data affects the outcome of all your digital transformation pursuits aimed at improving both enterprise and individual agility.

The technology that enables you to store, access and disseminate data across the enterprise is of timeless value.

What are Data Access Drivers (or Connectors)?

Data Access Drivers (or Connectors) are the technology that sits between business solutions and data management applications.

This kind of technology, commonly referred to as Data-Access Middleware, profoundly impacts any organization’s ability to improve and sustain agility through data access, transformation, and dissemination.

Fundamentally, Data Access Middleware is based on open standards, to ensure a loose-coupling between front-end solutions and the back-end data management services from which data is retrieved.

Open standards associated with Data Access Middleware include ODBC (Open Database Connectivity), JDBC (Java Database Connectivity), ADO.NET (ActiveX Data Objects for .NET), OLE DB (Object Linking & Embedding for Databases), and XMLA (XML for Analysis).

What are OpenLink Data Access Drivers?

Our collection of secure, high-performance, open-standards-compliant ODBC, JDBC, ADO.NET, OLE DB, and XMLA drivers (connectors) is commercially packaged as the suite of OpenLink Universal Data Access (UDA) Drivers.

These drivers are available in three main forms:

Express Edition (Single-Tier) Drivers (ODBC only)

Our Express Edition is an easy to deploy, DBMS-specific packaging of our Lite Edition ODBC Driver for JDBC Data Sources (our Lite Edition ODBC–JDBC Bridge), bundled with a database-specific JDBC driver. This packaging allows us to provide database-specific configuration dialogs and performance optimizations which are not deliverable through the generic Lite Edition ODBC–JDBC Bridge packaging. However, these drivers are dependent upon and limited by the third-party JDBC driver and the local Java environment.

Download our Express Edition drivers today!

Lite Edition (Single-Tier) Drivers (ODBC, JDBC, ADO.NET, OLE DB, and XMLA)

Our entry-level Lite Edition ODBC drivers leverage database-specific networking (provided by each target database backend) for high-performance remote database connectivity.

There are also Lite Edition Bridge Drivers, enabling ODBC applications to connect to JDBC Data sources; and enabling JDBC, ADO.NET, XMLA, and/or OLE DB applications to connect to ODBC Data Sources.