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Why is Oracle8i OCI a better API for a scalable, multi-threaded application than Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) 3.0?

April 26, 2017API application connectivity database multi-threaded OCI Oracle8i scalable

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Why is Oracle8i OCI a better API for a scalable, multi-threaded application than Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) 3.0?

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The only advantage of ODBC is that it is practically vendor neutral. However, this vendor neutrality reduces the flexibility that a native interface such as OCI allows. ODBC is a “least common denominator” interface and limits a scalable, high performance architecture.