Anyone using oracledb or node_plsql?

J Gil

Hi,

There' very little activity in the forum. I'd appreciate comments on what people are using this  for and how much of a future these drivers have.

Regards

Christopher Jones-Oracle

There's a lot of discussion about node-oracledb ongoing at the main discussion area https://github.com/oracle/node-oracledb/issues, so yes, there are a lot of people using it. This driver is bundled with Oracle Application Container Cloud; it is also used inside Oracle for various big and small projects.  It has a strong future.  A version 2 is due out soon. The other module you mentioned is 'third-party' and is more specialized. It's creator contributed some useful PL/SQL binding features to node-oracledb.

J Gil

Thanks for the reply. It's good to know that Oracle supports it, for me there's still little evidence of being widely use.

The installation is a nightmare. Is version 2 make it any easier? Would it be possible to get a highlight of what changes / improvements there will be in this version 2?

Regards

Christopher Jones-Oracle

The main change in the initial 2.0 release is the adoption of ODPI-C see

https://github.com/oracle/node-oracledb/issues/601 There will be a few small feature improvements in the first instance as a result of using ODPI-C, but ODPI-C will later give a springboard for future enhancements.  Installation will generally be easier when building from source.  Also see the 3rd party binaries at https://github.com/oracle/node-oracledb/issues/18