Does Texis have an ODBC interface?

Yes. ODBC (Open Database Connectivity) is a protocol developed by Microsoft as a generic interface to any relational database. Unfortunately, the specification has considerable ``overhead'' that tends to make it slow, and it may not be suitable for high transaction rates. HTTP is much faster for those situations. Texis also provides a DBI-DBD interface (Perl module), but performance cautions similar to those of ODBC apply.