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Schmidtw
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 Difference between ODBC and JDBC?
AS/400, Database, DB2, Development, Java applications, JDBC, ODBC, SQL
I'm writing a Java application. In short, this application needs to connect to DB2 on an AS/400 for some SQL data. I cannot find a straightforward comparison of ODBC and JDBC. Do any of you know where I can find one? Or, have any of you done java programming with the intent to connect to AS/400 SQL data, and if you have, should I simply ignore ODBC because JDBC is native to both java and DB2? Thanks in advance! -Schmidtw

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ASKED: June 18, 2009  1:49 PM
UPDATED: April 19, 2013  8:17 PM
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ODBC is for microsoft and JDBC is for Java. JBDC is portable across platforms where ODBC is not. See the following for more information: Also, a quick Google search shows 32,900 hits for "Difference between ODBC and JDBC". +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Thank you. I have seen all of those in my search already. I guess I was just looking for something more technical in nature and less forum style. I appreciate it! -Schmidtw ======================= ODBC is for lots more than just MicroSoft products. ODBC is the initial ism for Open Data Base Connectivity (or Communication). Up above it says ODBC is not portable across platforms. Not knowing exactly what is meant, I don't want to arbitrarily disagree, but ODBC can be used between many different platforms including other than MicroSoft, e.g. UNIX, OS/400, LINUX, even OS/2 used ODBC. There are many times when JDBC & ODBC will work together to bridge the gap between separate hardware and operating systems and different data bases. Meandyou
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Depending on the environment, one of the differences could be performance.
If you expect a considerable amount of database transactions to be performed by your application, you might want to make some testing to determine which performs better under heavy loads.

In this case I would probably choose JDBC.

carlosdl
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Another way of looking at this is:

ODBC is language independent.

JDBC is written specifically for Java.

Edljr319
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