FreeDAC is a frozen freeware AnyDAC v 1.12. FreeDAC is the data access engine for CodeGear Delphi for Win32, C++ Builder and Free Pascal Compiler/FCL for access to Oracle, MySQL, MSSQL, MSAccess, IBM DB2, Sybase SQL Anywhere, DbExpress and ODBC data sources.   IMPORTANT ! The product development and support are frozen ! Consider to use AnyDAC - the market leading data access library, commercial successor of FreeDAC !

FreeDAC Core Features 

The DBMS supported natively:

• Oracle v 8.0.3 and higher;
• MySQL v 3.23 and higher;
• MSSQL v 2000 and higher;
• MSAccess v 2000 and higher;
• IBM DB2 UDB v 8 and higher;
• Sybase ASA v 8 and higher.

"Natively" means, FreeDAC "talks" to the RDBMS through fastest, stable and recommended by vendor API. FreeDAC has been tested and optimized for the specified RDBMS's. Also FreeDAC supports generic data sources through:

• dbExpress drivers;
• TDBX drivers;
• ODBC drivers.

FreeDAC architecture is portionally defined under .Net influence. And become the mixture of the best ideas from Delphi and .Net worlds and developers experience, allowed to get this data access framework. In the beginning, it aims to replace BDE data access components in existing Delphi applications with nearly zero effort.

FreeDAC features cover at most all possible application data handling scenarios, including:

• Data Warehouse. Fastest data delivery from / to DBMS with data type mapping.
• Offline and Online Data Access. Complete DataSnap replacement and synchronized updates caching across few datasets.
• In-memory Data Storage. Second by speed after kbmMemTable, but top by flexibility in-memory relational engine.
• DB oriented GUI-reach applications. Flexible Login, Error, Async Execute dialogs, Query Builder, etc.