Interfaces of access to databases ? review of Borland, Embarcadero, Sun, Oracle technologies

This article is devoted to an extremely important issue, which is to implement applications access to various data sources. It shows the development that took place during the last quarter of the century for the most popular interfaces of access to data. Interfaces implement the access of applications to data stored and managed by different SQL servers. The paper presents the architecture of selected interfaces developed by Borland, Embarcadero, Sun, Oracle. The aim of the article is to determine the usefulness of the analyzed interfaces while indicating the advantages and disadvantages of each technology. This article is a specific comparative analysis of presented interfaces