Re: Difference between Oracle OCI and thin Driver?

From: Rauf Sarwar <rs_arwar_at_hotmail.com>
Date: 20 Jan 2005 16:21:26 -0800
Message-ID: <1106266886.240863.75880@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>

Anurag Varma wrote:
> Yong,
>
> Oracle itself is promoting the thin driver over oci driver. It claims
> major performance improvements in the 10g version.
>
> Here is one place where they mention it:
>
>

http://download-west.oracle.com/docs/cd/B14117_01/java.101/b10979/overvw.htm#sthref42
> Anurag

I am not surprised at Oracle promoting thin over OCI. Being able to connect to Oracle from anywhere with just a JVM without any requirement for native Oracle install sounds pretty good. Compared to OCI, one drawback I see in thin driver is that it only talks over TCP.

Regards
/Rauf Received on Thu Jan 20 2005 - 18:21:26 CST