Lotus Notes Tutorial – IBM Lotus Notes and Domino Education

In the Lotus architecture, the Lotus Connectors provide a uniform way to access the data. There’s a separate connector for each type of database, plus an ODBC connector for access to any databases where we don’t support a “native” connector. Others, such as the SAP R/3 connector2, provide access to application-specific data in a relational-like way.

There’s a base set of functionality common to all of these connectors. There are also differences between connectors, because as much as possible, the connectors give you access to the unique features of the back-end database. However, there’s enough commonality that Lotus can write other parts of the system — the timestamp-based replication in LEI, for instance without knowing in advance what types of databases you will be moving data between.