Does Texis have an ODBC interface?

Yes. ODBC (Open Database Connectivity) is a protocol developed by Microsoft as a generic interface to any relational database. Unfortunately, the specification has considerable "overhead" that tends to make it slow, and it may not be suitable for high transaction rates. HTTP is much faster for those situations. Texis also provides a DBI-DBD interface (Perl module), but performance cautions similar to those of ODBC apply.