Oracle Data Access Components vs. Oracle Data Access Components (ODAC) vs. SQLyog vs. ThinkSQL Comparison Chart

Oracle Data Access Components (ODAC) are a set of Windows and .NET data access drivers and tools. They include support for .NET data access, Microsoft Visual Studio tools for developing Oracle database applications; and ASP.NET providers. ODAC provides comprehensive client support for advanced Oracle database functionality, including performance, high availability, and security, among other features. It is tightly integrated with Visual Studio to provide a seamless development experience for developers. Oracle Data Provider for .NET is an implementation of Microsoft's ADO.NET interface and provides access to Oracle databases. OLAP Data Manipulation Language (OLAP DML) is used to define and manipulate analytic workspace objects. High performance, a feature-rich mechanism for Microsoft ADO and OLE DB data access to Oracle databases, its usage, and its configuration. Provides introductory, installation, post-installation configuration, and usage information.

ThinkSQL is a powerful, cross-platform relational database management system designed for modern operating systems and hardware. It aims to comply fully with the ISO SQL standard to provide an open and flexible SQL server for your applications. Compliance with the SQL standard means it supports transactions, sub-selects, views, set operators (union, except, intersect), access privileges and comprehensive referential constraints to ensure the integrity of your data. ThinkSQL uses a multi-versioning engine to provide consistent views of data and concurrent access to rows without locking. The server also has stored procedures and functions (using the standard syntax), and has support for large multimedia objects. It's easy to install, runs on Windows ® and Linux ®, and has native ODBC, JDBC™, dbExpress™ and Python drivers so your applications can connect directly from any platform.