OpenAccess SDK vs. Simba vs. ThinkSQL vs. WinSQL Comparison Chart

Common dashboards, reporting, and ETL tools often lack connectivity to certain data sources, creating integration challenges for users. Simba offers ready-to-use, standards-based drivers that ensure compatibility, simplifying the connectivity process. Companies that provide data to customers struggle to offer headache-free, easy data connectivity to their users. Simba’s SDK allows developers to build custom, standards-based drivers, making connectivity more friendly than CSV export or API-based access. Unique backend requirements, such as specific implementation needs dictated by specific applications or internal processes, can complicate connectivity. Using Simba’s SDK or managed services enables the creation of drivers tailored to meet these requirements. Simba provides comprehensive ODBC/JDBC extensibility for a wide range of applications and data tools. Simba Drivers plug into these tools to enhance their offerings, enabling additional connectivity to data sources.

WinSQL is a powerful universal database management tool that is used by 90 percent of Fortune 500 companies and more than a million programmers and DBAs around the globe. WinSQL is a generic querying tool that connects to any relational database (RDBMS) for which an Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) driver is available, virtually all RDBMS on the market today. Connect to a variety of databases, including: heavy duty vendors Oracle, MS SQL Server, DB2, Sybase, Informix to lightweight backends like MS Access, DBase, and Text File. Generate royalty-free executables that can be used by your business users to run queries. These can be either static or dynamic queries that pull fresh data from the back-end. Export or simply open any query results into MS Excel with just a click of your mouse. You can even import an existing Excel spreadsheet to a database table by simply dragging an *.XSL file in the catalog tree.