Starting with release Teiid 6.0.0 (Designer and Embedded) the support for the vendor supplied JDBC drivers is extended to include Oracle Microsoft SQL Server DB2 Teiid Designer will provide templates for you to use the vendor's JDBC drivers to import and preview data from database. Embedded will work with the native drivers in building a respective Connector connections. Note that we *DO NOT* bundle any vendor JDBC drivers with Teiid kits, you are still required for providing these drivers to be used with Teiid Designer and Teiid Embedded and configuring them correctly to make use of them. "Data Direct" based JDBC templates for importing and building Connectors are removed from community versions. Please note that you could still use the "Data Direct" drivers, but pre-built customized templates are not available. We will give directions on how you can use "Data Direct" in forth coming WIKI article soon. If you are looking for a specific Database support, please be sure to let us know, and open up a JIRA. Thanks. Ramesh..