Supported Client Drivers for Entra ID Connections

Oracle Database supports several types of client drivers for Entra ID connections.

Oracle recommends that you use the latest quarterly patch for the supported versions because enhancements are added with the quarterly releases. In addition, some features will only exist in the Oracle AI Database 26ai version and will not be backported.

• Thick clients (OCI C driver, Oracle Instant Client, Oracle Data Provider - Unmanaged (ODP.NET-Unmanaged), JDBC-thick, and others based on OCI C driver): Oracle Database 19.16 (July 2022) and above, not supported with 21c, fully supported with Oracle AI Database 26ai

• JDBC-thin: Oracle Database 19.16 (July 2022), Oracle Database 21.8 (October 2022)

• Oracle Data Provider (ODP.NET core, managed): Oracle Database 19.16, Oracle Database 21.7

• Python-thin: 1.1.0+

• Node.js-thin: v6.3+