Haskell & Oracle

Question

I reviewed different means for connecting to oracle db from Haskell. I found one, ODBC. Ideally, I wish to use an oracle client to connect. Do you know any other way?

Thank you.

Answer 1

Takusen provides direct access to Oracle DBs, however, the ODBC-enabled libraries, such as HDBC may be easier to use.

Look on Hackage for more options.

Answer 2

I have written an Oracle driver for HDBC largely inspired by Takusen and HSQL. It uses Oracle's OCI library for interfacing with the database.

I consider it experimental for now. But if you want to try it, you can find a darcs repo for it at http://thiagoarrais.com/repos/hdbc-oracle/.