What databases for Mac are directly supported by the FireMonkey framework in Delphi XE2?

Question

Confronted with the task to develop a database application for a company working in a pure Mac environment, what are my options for a central database server to be used by a Delphi FMX application (except the obvious setting up a Windows or Linux box)?

Answer 1

From http://www.embarcadero.com/products/firemonkey/more-connected:

FireMonkey includes built-in component based access to MS SQL Server, Oracle, IBM DB2, MySQL, Sybase, Informix, InterBase and Firebird databases.

Oracle, MySQL and Firebird are available for Mac OS X - I did not check the others

Answer 2

http://docwiki.embarcadero.com/RADStudio/en/Deploying_dbExpress_Database_Applications

Only a few is listed in this article, so maybe they are all supported database at this moment.

libsqlinf.dylib

For applications connecting to Informix databases

libsqlora.dylib

For applications connecting to Oracle databases

libsqlasa.dylib

For applications connecting to Adaptive Server Anywhere databases

libsqlmys.dylib

For applications connecting to MySQL databases

libsqlfb.dylib

For applications connecting to Firebird databases

libsqlib.dylib

For applications connecting to Interbase databases

libmidas.dylib

Required by database applications that use client datasets

Answer 3

Have a look at

MariaDB (It is a drop in replacement for MySql) and runs on the Mac and windows.

To connect to the database look at Devart's MyDac7.x it can connect to both MacOs and Windows