The CData ODBC Driver for API is a standards-based ODBC driver with editions for Windows and Unix-based operating systems, like macOS and Linux. The following sections show how to create an ODBC data source and query data.

Creating a DSN on Your Platform

The following guides show how to use the standard tools to configure data source names (DSN).

• Windows

  Windows DSN Configuration shows how to configure a DSN with the Microsoft ODBC Administrator tool.

• macOS

  macOS DSN Configuration shows how to configure a DSN with the iODBC driver manager.

• Linux

  Linux DSN Configuration shows how to configure DSNs with several major driver managers on Linux.

API Version Support

The driver models local XML/JSON files and remote REST service APIs as read/write tables. In addition to processing XML or JSON data, the driver also abstracts authentication, HTTP, and SSL/TLS: The major authentication schemes are supported, including HTTP Basic, Digest, and NTLM. The driver also facilitates connecting to data sources that use the OAuth authentication standard.

See Also

See the following sections to connect to the DSN from tools and from code:

• Using from Tools: Connect to the DSN from various tools on different platforms.
• Using ODBC: Connect to the DSN using the native ODBC API.
• Create a Linked Server: Connect to the DSN as a remote SQL Server database.
• MySQL Remoting: Connect to the DSN over the MySQL protocol.