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Oracle
URL
http://www.oracle.com/index.html
FAQ
http://www.orafaq.com/
Wiki
http://www.orawiki.com/
Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle_database
license
commercial/proprietary; free for development from Oracle Technology Network; Oracle XE is
free for production and development (and an excellent option all-around)
platforms
Unix, Linux, win32, win64

Pros
Reputation for being capable of handling large scale databases
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Typically the database system others compare themselves to

Cons
Usually requires bloated Oracle client installation on any machine that the app will run on
Frequently the subject of migration discussions (to alternatives), usually for reasons of cost

DB API 2.0 Drivers

cx_Oracle

URL
http://cx-oracle.sourceforge.net/
licence
BSD like
platforms
Unix, win32
Python versions
2.5 - 3.2
Oracle versions
10i - 11g
Last release
5.1 (March 19, 2011)

DCOracle2

URL
http://www.zope.org/Members/matt/dco2
licence
ZPL
platforms
Unix, win32
Python versions
Last release
1.3beta (Feb 10, 2003)

DCOracle2 targets Oracle 8i and up.

There also is DCOracle ( http://www.zope.org/Products/DCOracle/) for the older Oracle 7 and 8

versions, but this is unmaintained.

mxODBC

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URL
http://www.egenix.com/products/python/mxODBC/
Licence
eGenix Commercial License
Platforms
Windows, Linux, MacOS X, FreeBSD, Solaris, AIX
Python versions
2.4 - 2.7

mxODBC is compatible with the Oracle ODBC drivers on Windows and Unix, such as the ones included
in the Oracle Instant Client.

pyodbc

URL
https://github.com/mkleehammer/pyodbc
License
MIT
Platforms
Windows, Linux, MacOS X, FreeBSD, Solaris, Any (source provided)
Python versions
2.4 - 2.6

Actively maintained Open Source project.

Precompiled binaries are available for Windows. RedHat Enterprise Linux, Centos, and Fedora have
precompiled RPMs available in their Extras repositories.

OJDBC and JayDeBeApi

URL
http://pypi.python.org/pypi/JayDeBeApi
licence
LGPL
platforms
Any (requires Java)
Python versions
Tested on CPython 2.6.6 and Jython 2.5.2
Oracle versions
Any supported by Oracle's JDBC drivers (currently 8.1.7 to 11.2.0.2.0)
Last release
0.1 (2010-08-16)

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No InstantClient required. Download an Oracle JDBC driver (the filename will be something like
ojdbc6.jar) from the Oracle website, and set the classpath to include the driver. Note that if not
running under Jython, JPype is required. Use code like the following:

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1 environ['JAVA_HOME'] = '/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre'
2 jpype.startJVM(jpype.getDefaultJVMPath(), '-
Djava.class.path=ojdbc6.jar')
3 conn = jaydebeapi.connect('oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver',
'jdbc:oracle:thin:user/pass@server:1521:dbname')

mxODBC Connect

URL
http://www.egenix.com/products/python/mxODBCConnect/
License
eGenix Commercial License 1.3.0
Platforms
Client: all Python platforms; Server: Windows, Linux
Python versions
2.5 - 2.7

mxODBC Connect is a commercial client-server product that allows connecting Python to ODBC
compatible databases running on remote servers without requiring an ODBC driver on the client side.
The product uses mxODBC on the server side and provides a highly portable Python library for the client
side. As such it supports all database backend that mxODBC supports, but allows connecting to these
from many different Python-supported platforms.

mxODBC Connect supports asynchronous query execution via the popular gevent package, provides
secure certificate based authentication, SSL encrypted database connections, comes with full support
for stored procedures, multiple result sets, Unicode, a common interface on all platforms and
implements many other useful features.

mxODBC Connect Server is compatible with the Oracle Instant Client ODBC drivers.

Supported Python Applications

Zope
an Oracle (DCOracle and DCOracle2) driver exists for PyDO (Python Data Objects)

Web Links
Oracle Forum

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