Open DataBase Connectivity (ODBC) is a standard database access method developed by the SQL Access group in 1992. ODBC, just like JDBC in Java, allows consistent client access regardless of which database management system (DBMS) is handling the data. ODBC uses a driver to translate the application's data queries into commands that the DBMS understands. For this to work, both the application and the DBMS must be ODBC-compliant -- that is, the application must be capable of issuing ODBC commands and the DBMS must be capable of responding to them.
Teiid can provide ODBC access to deployed VDBs in the Teiid runtime through PostgreSQL's ODBC driver. This is possible because Teiid has specialized handling that allows it emulate a PostgreSQL server and respond appropriate to expected metadata queries.
By default, ODBC on the Teiid is enabled and running on on port 35432.
Before an application can use ODBC, you must first install the ODBC driver on same machine that the application is running on and then create Data Source Name (DSN) that represents a connection profile for your Teiid VDB.
Teiid currently only supports plain text passward authentication for ODBC. If the client/server are not configured to use SSL, the password will be sent in plain text over the network. If you need secure passwords in transit and are not using SSL, then consider installing a security domain that will accept safe password values from the client (for example encrypted or hashed).