title: PDO_OCI vs OCI8
body: <p>I'm working on a new project and trying to determine if I should use PDO_OCI or oci8 for a database connection. Unfortunately I don't think anyone has really compared the two.</p>
  
  <p>The information I have is as follows so that you know why I'm concerned about the choice. OCI8 is developed by Oracle(AFAIK) so this seems to be a solid choice. I prefer PDO but it doesn't look like the PDO_OCI extension has been updated in some time and its still marked as experimental on the PHP docs page.</p>
  
  <p>If anyone can give me any thoughts on why you would / wouldn't use one or the other so that I can go into this with a little more of an understanding of which is better that would be great.</p>