Method and system for transparent interoperability between applications and data management systems

A system for providing database management system support by a source application configured to operate with a source database management system, the system is configured to:

• intercept wire protocol communications issued by a source application to a source database management system;
• extract the semantic and syntactic components associated with each intercepted wire protocol communication:
• transform said semantic and syntactic components into an equivalent form based on a target database management system;
• compile said equivalent form into a database language associated with the target database management system;
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• initiate an authentication procedure in cases where the source database management system and the target database management system maintain different authentication schemes, wherein for any communication issued by the source application to the source database management system requiring authentication by the source database management system, performing at least one bridging authentication operation wherein (1) said communication is authenticated against a bridge authentication mechanism based on user credentials obtained from said communication, and (2) subsequently authenticate with the target database management system using the user credentials.