What is the difference between odbc and pdo database connection?

Question

ODBC

What is the difference between ODBC and PDO connecting to a database (what kind of application), I can't find a normal description of the principle of operation of one or another anywhere, and in what circumstances should I use odbc or pdo ?

Answer 1

Are you satisfied with short excerpts from a wiki about these two technologies?
ODBC , PDO .
In particular, the article about PDO says the difference:

PDO does not use abstract layers to connect to the database, like ODBC, but uses their "native" drivers for different databases, which allows for high performance. Currently, there are drivers for PDO for almost all well-known DBMS and interfaces. PDO also allows you to work with multiple databases at the same time.