The ODBC driver for Interbase is an implementation of database specific part of ODBC technology, than enables applications to access relational database servers via standard database API. Also, it makes applications portable between different OS platforms and DBMS products.

ODBC interfaces are based on the Call Level Interface (CLI) specification designed by SQL Access Group and then adopted by X/Open and ISO/IEC as an appendix to current standard of SQL language.

ODBC also has some valuable extensions by Microsoft Corp. The driver conforms to the ODBC specification described in the ODBC Programmer's Reference, version 3.51. The driver is available for Win32 and Linux platforms.