Difference between ODBC / Wire Protocol Drivers and Native Programming
Superior performance over competing drivers - DataDirect Connect for ODBC wire protocol drivers offer significant advantages over native ODBC programming. Advantages of Using ODBC / Wire Protocol Drivers Disadvantages of Native Programming Faster than native programming Using DataDirect wire protocol drivers results in faster application performance than coding to the native database API. This is possible because DataDirect drivers include many performance features such as network optimization. For example, DataDirect uses compressed data packets that are allowed by the architecture of our drivers, but not by the native interface the database uses. This means significantly fewer packets are transmitted across the wire, resulting in better application performance. In addition, DataDirect drivers don't use database client libraries to communicate with the database as other drivers do, instead accessing it directly through the database's wire protocol. This eliminates the extra ...