OCILIB is an open source and cross platform Oracle Driver that delivers really fast and reliable access to Oracle databases.

The OCILIB library :

offers a rich, full featured and easy to use API runs on all Oracle platforms is written in pure ISO C code with native ISO C Unicode support encapsulates OCI (Oracle Call Interface) is the most complete available OCI wrapper OCILIB is developed by Vincent Rogier.

Get the latest package, install and enjoy it !

Features (current version : 3.5.1 - 2010-02-03)

Full Ansi and Unicode support on all platforms Builtin error handling (global and thread context) Support for ALL Oracle SQL and PL/SQL datatypes (scalars, objects, refs, collections, ..) Support for non scalar datatypes trough library objects Binding array Interface for fast and massive bulk operations Reusable and scrollable statements Connection Pooling Global Transactions Full PL/SQL support (blocks, cursors, Index by Tables and Nested tables) Returning DML feature support Direct Path loading Runtime loading (no OCI libs required at compile time) Remote Instances Startup/Shutdown Oracle Database Change notification / Continuous Query Notification Oracle warnings support Describe database schema objects Hash tables API Portable Threads and mutexes API