It's probably the case that Oracle has built the drivers themselves, so a programming language would just need a wrapper library around the direct driver (similar things exist for MySQL, Postgres, etc.).
But what Stefan said still applies, someone would have to take the initiative to build the wrapper library around the Oracle driver and provide a Julia package. Probably not a terribly hard project (basically lots of ccalls and some julia-level interface design), but where ODBC provides a connection more-or-less out of the box, it cuts down a little on the pressing need. -Jacob On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 10:23 AM, Stefan Karpinski <ste...@karpinski.org> wrote: > Given how expensive Oracle databases are, creating a direct driver isn't > really a plausible open source endeavor, so this is unlikely to happen > unless someone who actually has an Oracle database builds it themselves or > pays for it to be built (e.g. through Julia Computing > <http://juliacomputing.com/>). > > On Sun, Jun 26, 2016 at 8:51 PM, John Kim <jonji...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> In R, there are direct Oracle OCI drivers. According to the oracle >> benchmarks, they are 3x faster than the ODBC versions. Any idea if direct >> OCI will be supported for Julia? >> >> >> On Monday, May 9, 2016 at 1:03:25 AM UTC-7, Stefan Karpinski wrote: >>> >>> You have to install ODBC drivers yourself – the Julia package just >>> provides an interface to them. >>> >>> On Mon, May 9, 2016 at 5:27 AM, John Kim <jonj...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> Hello >>>> >>>> I'm new to Julia and would like to start using it for various >>>> projects. One such project requires me to access an Oracle database. when >>>> using the ODBC package, the listdrivers() command only shows PostgreSQL and >>>> MySQL drivers installed by default. Are Oracle drivers available for >>>> Julia? >>>> >>> >>> >
