eGenix mxODBC Connect 0.9.3 (beta)
Introduction
The mxODBC Connect™ Database Interface for Python allows users to easily connect Python applications to all major databases on the market today in a highly portable, convenient and secure way.
Unlike our mxODBC Python extension, mxODBC Connect is designed as client-server application, so you no longer need to find production quality ODBC drivers for all the platforms you target with your Python application.
Instead you use an easy to install Python client library which connects directly to the mxODBC Connect database server over the network.
This makes mxODBC Connect the ideal basis for writing cross-platform database programs and utilities in Python, especially if you run applications that need to communicate with databases such as MS SQL Server and MS Access, Oracle Database, IBM DB2 and Informix, Sybase ASE and Sybase Anywhere, MySQL, PostgreSQL, SAP MaxDB and many more, that run on Windows or Linux machines.
By removing the need to install and configure ODBC drivers on the client side, mxODBC Connect greatly simplifies setup and configuration of database driven client applications, while at the same time making the network communication between client and database server more efficient and more secure.
How it Works
mxODBC Connect consists of two parts:
- a server application which typically runs directly on the database server and
- a client Python package which is installed on the client machine that runs the Python application.
The server part is a stand-alone application that uses our high-performance database adapter mxODBC to connect to the database server via ODBC.
The client package communicates with the server part over a TCP/IP network, optionally using SSL encryption, advanced authentication, compression and access controls - features that many database drivers fail to deliver.
Advantages
By using mxODBC Connect and moving the database interface logic from client to the server side, you gain several benefits:
- much better overall performance
- centralized configuration and administration
- SSL-based encryption of all communication
- certificate based authentication
- automatic fail-over
- scalability
- reduced overall costs
For more information, please have a look at the mxODBC Connect product page, in particular, the full list of available features.
News
mxODBC Connect 0.9.3 is the third public beta release of our new mxODBC Connect product.
With this release we have improved the performance of mxODBC Connect significantly and achieved an up to 6 times better performance for a typical multi-tier application that runs on Linux and connects to a MS SQL Server database running on a Windows host, compared to the same application using mxODBC and the FreeTDS ODBC driver.
mxODBC Connect 0.9.3 now comes with added optional compression of all network traffic and fixes two bugs found in the 0.9.2 beta release: a missing Windows DLL in the Windows installer and a problem with fail-over using SSL-enabled connections.
We expect this to be last beta release before the 1.0.0 final release.
Downloads
Please visit the eGenix mxODBC Connect product page for downloads, instructions on installation and documentation of the package.
Evaluation licenses for the server part are available free of charge.
Special Offer
If you would like to participate in the beta as tester, please see our public beta program page for details.
In order to make participation in the beta program more interesting for our users, we will be giving out 20% discount coupons to all participants who report back bugs in the product.
Support
Commercial support for this product is available from eGenix.com.
Please see the support section of our website for details.
More Information
For more information on the eGenix mxODBC Connect, licensing and download instructions, please write to sales@egenix.com.
Enjoy !
Marc-Andre Lemburg, eGenix.com