OCILIB is an open source and cross platform Oracle Driver that delivers really fast and reliable access to Oracle databases.


The OCILIB library :


* offers a rich, full featured and easy to use API
* runs on all Oracle platforms
* is written in pure ISO C code with native ISO C Unicode support
* encapsulates OCI (Oracle Call Interface)
* is the most complete available OCI wrapper


OCILIB is developed by Vincent Rogier.


Get the latest package, install and enjoy it !


Features (current version : 3.1.0 - 2009/01/27)


* Data binding
* Integrated smart define and fetch mecanisms
* Full Unicode support on all platorms
* Multi row fetching
* Binding array Interface for fast and massive bulk operations
* Reusable Statements
* Scrollable statements
* Connection Pooling
* Global Transactions
* Returning DML feature support
* ROWIDs support
* Named Types (Object types) support (User or Builtin)
* Collections (Varrays and Nested tables)
* Ref cursors
* Full PL/SQL support (blocks, cursors, Index by Tables and Nested tables)
* Support for Oracle REF datatype
* LOB (BLOBs/ FILEs)
* Supports lobs > 4Go
* Long datatype (piecewise operations)
* Provides "All in one" Formatted functions (printf's like)
* Smallest possible memory usage
* Date/time management
* Timestamps and Intervals support
* Error handling
* Thread contextual error management
* Describe database schema objects
* Access columns by index or name
* Hash tables API
* Portable Threads and mutexes API
* Supports static / shared oracle linkage
* Support runtime loading (no OCI libs required at compile / time)
* Great performances (straight OCI encapsulation)