Sybase¶
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Sybase was acquired by SAP in 2010. The products below are now available as SAP products.
Note that there are Sybase ASE and Sybase SQL Anywhere systems. Those two are completely different database engines.
SAP Sybase ASE (Adaptive Server Enterprise)¶
- URL
http://www.sap.com/pc/tech/database/software/adaptive-server-enterprise/index.html
- licence
Commercial
- platforms
Unix, Linux, Windows
SAP Sybase ODBC drivers for Python¶
- URL
- licence
Commercial
- platforms
Mac OS X, Linux, Windows
- Python versions
from 2.4 till the latest
Sybase ODBC driver for Python is a connectivity solution which connects Python with SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise databases.
DB API 2.0 Drivers¶
python-sybase¶
Licence
:
Platforms
:
Python versions
:
The older versions of this driver are available at http://www.object-craft.com.au/projects/sybase/.
mxODBC¶
- URL
- Licence
eGenix Commercial License
- Platforms
Windows, Linux, MacOS X, FreeBSD, Solaris, AIX
- Python versions
2.4 - 2.7
mxODBC is compatible with the Sybase ASE ODBC drivers on Windows and Unix.
mxODBC Connect¶
- URL
- 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 Sybase ASE ODBC drivers.
SAP Sybase SQL Anywhere¶
- URL
http://www.sap.com/pc/tech/database/software/sybase-sql-anywhere/index.html
- licence
Commercial
- platforms
Unix, Linux, Windows, MacOS X
DB API 2.0 Drivers¶
mxODBC¶
- URL
- Licence
eGenix Commercial License
- Platforms
Windows, Linux, MacOS X, FreeBSD, Solaris, AIX
- Python versions
2.4 - 2.7
mxODBC is compatible with the Sybase ASE ODBC drivers on Windows and Unix.
sqlanydb¶
- URL
- Licence
Apache License 2.0
- Platforms
Unix, Linux, Windows, MacOS X
- Python versions
2.4 or newer with ctypes module
This a Google Code project providing a python interface to the SQL Anywhere Database.
Supported Python Applications¶
Django¶
- URL
- Licence
New BSD
- Platforms
SQL Anywhere 11.0.1, Django 1.0.2 or 1.1
- Python versions
2.4 - 2.6
This is a Google Code project allowing SQL Anywhere to be used as a backend database for the Django web framework.