Sorry for the language fault, but I needed to comment on this ;-)
Please remember that the 1.0 version number doesn't mean a new
product with a short history.
See a roadmap of "FireBird" heritage:
http://www.cvalde.com/IbRoadmap.htm
(I myself got involved back in 1991-1992)
I have worked with Oracle and several other of the mayor players. And
for my needs/temper no one does it better than FireBird (InterBase).
But be aware that since this is a unique design and architecture, you
can't easily compare it to others. Also keep in mind that the
original design included a lot of unique features (Blobs, Event
Alerters, 2-phase commits, triggers and a unique versioning engine
(readers don't block writers), multi-dimensional array - the list
goes on) - 10 years later Oracle included support for Blobs and MS
SQL still did page-locks 4 years ago.
This is a very powerfull RDBMS with a very small footprint - can you
install Oracle in less than 2 min? And you don't need a SYSDBA ;-)
(Embed-Deploy-done!)
Use the product you like the best, but do your homework when
evaluating others.
..no intention to offend anyone, but this product/technology deserves
respect and support.
BTW: People using Oracle would love to have a tool like IBExpert
(Holger isn't paying me for this one ;-) )
Please remember that the 1.0 version number doesn't mean a new
product with a short history.
See a roadmap of "FireBird" heritage:
http://www.cvalde.com/IbRoadmap.htm
(I myself got involved back in 1991-1992)
I have worked with Oracle and several other of the mayor players. And
for my needs/temper no one does it better than FireBird (InterBase).
But be aware that since this is a unique design and architecture, you
can't easily compare it to others. Also keep in mind that the
original design included a lot of unique features (Blobs, Event
Alerters, 2-phase commits, triggers and a unique versioning engine
(readers don't block writers), multi-dimensional array - the list
goes on) - 10 years later Oracle included support for Blobs and MS
SQL still did page-locks 4 years ago.
This is a very powerfull RDBMS with a very small footprint - can you
install Oracle in less than 2 min? And you don't need a SYSDBA ;-)
(Embed-Deploy-done!)
Use the product you like the best, but do your homework when
evaluating others.
..no intention to offend anyone, but this product/technology deserves
respect and support.
BTW: People using Oracle would love to have a tool like IBExpert
(Holger isn't paying me for this one ;-) )