A variety of connectivity drivers, data adapters, and dialects can be used with Vector, such as:

For a list of latest solutions and details about each, see the downloads page of the Actian web site.

For more information about the Ingres ODBC Driver, JDBC Driver, and .NET Data Provider, see the Connectivity Guide.

For other connectivity options to Vector where Actian does not provide a driver, you can use third party drivers. A range of commercial and open source drivers are available for different languages. For example, for Python, there are free and open source drivers and a commercial driver that connects through the Ingres ODBC driver.

Options for drivers are documented in the community at https://communities.actian.com.

We recommend using third party drivers that connect through ODBC or JDBC. In many cases the ODBC driver option is pre-built and included with the installation, which makes deployment much easier and eliminates the need to compile the driver/extension. For example Perl binaries for Windows and Linux include DBD::ODBC, which is the Perl ODBC driver.