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BDE is more componentized that ODBC because it defers the database dependencies to SQL Links. So there are separate SQL Links drivers for each database, but only one BDE.
DBMS client library provides client/server
The BDE also provides higher level functionality than ODBC, such as dataset caching.
BDE is a C api and runs only on Windows.
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