IDG. Figure 1. JDBC connects Java programs to databases. JDBC vs ODBC. Before JDBC, developers used Open Database Connectivity (ODBC), a language-agnostic standard approach to accessing a ...

The Java Development Kit does provide something called a JDBC-ODBC bridge driver that allows developers to write applications that use the JDBC API but connect to ODBC compliant databases such as ...

ODBC is a Microsoft-based specification used by databases such as Access and SQLServer. You can consider ODBC a competitor to JDBC, but that doesn't mean you can't connect to ODBC-compliant databases ...