EDB and the difference between ODBC

[tttyyyy22]

EDB and the difference between ODBC

1.odbc, oledb, ado, adox relationship:
odbc: Database communication standards have been
oledb: as in all of the trend of, ms want to use it instead of odbc.
oledb in two ways: direct oledb and odbc for the oledb, odbc on the latter architecture, which
Sample did not own oledb provider database can also use the characteristics of oledb.
ado: In fact, only one application-level interface, it uses oledb to communicate with the database.
adox: for ado security, maintenance (such as: creating a database) is extended.

[vikramrandhawa]

ODBC stands for Open Data Base Connectivity, which is a connection method to data sources.
Whereas EDB is an embedded database engine that provides core functionality for a Microsoft CE application. By using EDB, a developer can create an object store (called a volume) that can contain multiple databases.