MySQL2ODBC is a library for intercepting MySQL? API calls and redirecting them via ODBC.
Historically the open-source community has produced many useful applications tied to the LAMP stack (Linux, Apache, MySQL? and PHP) or similar variants. Often, however, the reliance on MySQL? as the database layer of choice has been baked-in with little scope for substituting another RDBMS.
On the other hand, ODBC has long provided flexible choice of backend RDBMS - by talking ODBC, an application can switch between PostgreSQL?, MySQL?, Oracle, SQL Server, OpenLink? Virtuoso and many more at will.
MySQL2ODBC is one way to break free of vendor lock-in and restore database-independence via ODBC :)
MySQL2ODBC provides a substitute libmysqlclient library.
./configure --help - you can choose which ODBC Driver Manager to work with, either unixODBC or iODBC Your application needs to be told to use the MySQL2ODBC implementation of libmysqlclient in preference to the existing version. To do this, either
or
and restart the application. You might want to create a shell-script wrapper to preserve this.
The source can be downloaded from github as a zip archive: MySQL2ODBC source zip.
Alternatively you can clone the repository:
The project is licensed under the terms of the GNU Library General Public License (LGPL) v2.
Patches are welcomed - please either send us a merge request via github or email the OpenLink? iODBC source archive manager at iodbc@openlinksw.com, including documentation. Thank you for your contributions :)