Oracle Data Access Components (ODAC) Features

• Native Connectivity to Oracle - ODAC-based DB applications are easy to deploy, do not require installation of other data provider layers (such as BDE or ODBC), and that's why they can work faster than the ones based on standard Delphi data connectivity solutions. Moreover, ODAC provides an additional opportunity to work with Oracle directly via TCP/IP without involving Oracle Client.
• Wide Coverage of Oracle Features - ODAC supports a wide range of Oracle-specific features, such as DML Arrays, REF cursors, Objects, Packages, Direct Path Loading, Alerts, Pipes, Change notifications, Advanced Queuing, Transparent Application Failover, and others.
• Cross-Platform Solution for Delphi, C++Builder, and Lazarus - ODAC is a cross-platform solution for developing applications using various IDEs: RAD Studio, Delphi, C++Builder, Lazarus (and FPC) on Windows, Linux, macOS, iOS, Android, and FreeBSD for both x86 and x64 platforms. ODAC also provides support for the FireMonkey application development platform, which allows you to develop visually spectacular high-performance desktop and mobile native applications.
• High Development Productivity with ODAC - Provides various GUI tools that will increase your productivity: dbMonitor allows monitoring activity of your DB applications, Dataset Manager simplifies DataSet and DB controls tweaking, OraDeveloper Tools provides an easier way to explore and maintain existing DBs, design compound SQL statements and queries, as well as manipulate data.
• Direct Mode - Allows your application to work with Oracle directly via TCP/IP without involving Oracle Client, thus significantly facilitating deployment and configuration of your applications.
• Mobile Development - Develompent for iOS and Android mobile devices using ODAC becomes easier, as ODAC allows your mobile applications to work with Oracle database as simply as desktop applications do.
• DB Compatibility - Supports Oracle servers and Oracle Express Edition.
• IDE Compatibility - The product is compatible with the latest IDE versions and editions including Community Edition.
• Data Type Mapping - If you want to make custom correspondence between Oracle and Delphi data types, you can use a simple and flexible Data Type Mapping engine provided by ODAC.
• Development Platforms - Now you can develop not only VCL-based applications in Delphi and LCL-based ones in Lazarus, but also use the newest FireMonkey application development platform.
• Performance - All the components and libraries are designed to help you write high-performance, lightweight data access layers, therefore they use advanced data access algorithms and techniques of optimization.
• Monitoring - Use the dbMonitor tool to monitor and analyze all the DB calls made by your application using ODAC. dbMonitor performs per­-component tracing of SQL statement execution, commits, rollbacks, etc.

The Standard edition includes the ODAC basic connectivity components and ODAC Migration Wizard. ODAC Standard Edition is a cost-effective solution for database application developers who are looking for overall high-performance connectivity to Oracle.

The Professional edition shows off the full power of ODAC, enhancing ODAC Standard Edition with support for Oracle-specific functionality, access to the Direct mode for connecting to the Oracle server directly via TCP/IP, and some advanced dataset management features.

You can get Source Access to the Client mode implementation of all the component classes in ODAC by purchasing the special ODAC Professional Edition with Source Code. The source codes of DataSet Manager and Migration Wizard are not distributed. The source code of Oracle Direct Mode is supplied obfuscated.