Features

• Direct Connection - The driver provides capabilities to establish SSL-encrypted connections to MySQL databases directly via TCP/IP avoiding MySQL Client with support for both IPv4 and IPv6. In addition, there is a set of options for connection to MySQL via HTTP and Proxy.
• SSL Encryption - Work securely using SSL connection options provided in the driver along with support for SSL.
• SSH Secure Connection - You can also connect securely via SSH tunnel. SSH is one of the most reliable protocols for data encryption.
• Bulk Updates - You can perform bulk updates by combining SQL statements into batches, thus simplifying and speeding up large data modification.
• Advanced Data Conversion - Includes advanced Data Conversion mechanisms that provide bi-directional mapping to ODBC data types.
• ODBC Conformance - The driver provides full support for common ODBC interface:
  • ODBC API Functions support
  • ODBC Data Types support
  • In addition, it provides support for Advanced Connection String parameters. Thus allowing any desktop and web applications to connect from various environments and platforms that support ODBC.
• Integration - The driver is compatible with 3rd-party data analysis tools, such as Microsoft Excel, and integrates with various IDEs and systems like Visual Studio, etc.
• Platforms - The driver can be used with 32-bit and 64-bit applications on both x32 and x64 platforms, so there is no need to additionally configure the driver, applications or environment.
• Fully Unicode Driver - You can retrieve and work with any data from multi-lingual databases correctly, not depending on whether its charset is Latin, Cyrillic, Hebrew, Chinese, etc., in any environment localization.
• Read-only mode will ensure the user doesn’t remove or alter the data in the database, either accidentally or intentionally.