Audience Manager Content Manager-side database client support history

SDL Tridion Sites 9.5 Audience Manager Content Manager-side has a number of changed database client prerequisites compared to SDL Web 8.5 or SDL Tridion Sites 9. Specifically, in SDL Web 8.5 or SDL Tridion Sites 9, Audience Manager had the same Content Manager-side database client prerequisites as Content Manager server, but as of SDL Tridion Sites 9.5, Audience Manager requires you to install database client software for Oracle databases, while Content Manager server no longer requires you to install any database client software.

In the following table: N=not supported, Y=supported, D=Deprecated (support may be dropped in the following version release), Dr=Dropped (support is definitely dropped in the following version release):

Database client8.599.1
Oracle ODAC 12.1.0.1YNN
Oracle ODAC 12.2.0.1YYN
Oracle ODAC 18.3NNY