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Oracle datatypes mappings and conversions:

Oracle has two types of driver thin and oci.

The JDBC Thin client is a pure Java, Type IV driver. It is lightweight and easy to install. More https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E11882_01/java.112/e16548/jdbcthin.htm#JJDBC28195

Oci driver requires native libraries to be installed, but provides some additional features like OCI Connection Pooling, Client Result Cache etc.

More https://www.oracle.com/database/technologies/appdev/oci.html,

https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E11882_01/java.112/e16548/instclnt.htm#JJDBC28218

Also oracle support tnsnames.ora file on client machine. More https://docs.oracle.com/database/121/NETRF/tnsnames.htm#NETRF007

Design

The suggestion is to create maven submodule oracle-plugin under database-plugins repo.

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