I tried to find the list of issues, but I forget where I saw them, they didn't look like most users would ever incur them. But nonetheless, I didn't like 'em, probably because I'm a fan of PostgreSQL.
Again, my past history with Interbase left a bad taste in my mouth, and have not looked at Firebird with an openmind. It's probably the easiest to deploy in a multiuser environment, but proper analysis needs to be taken into account. Now days, it doesn't matter which rdbms you go with there will be issues one way or another. That which most fit's your requirements, is probably going to be the best one for you. IMO, PostgreSQL is the most powerful, by far of the Open Sources, thus, I tend to push that one. But it's not necessarily the easiest to deploy. You need to install it under a specific user and edit a couple of conf to get clients to be able to connect. Not the most straight forward... But it's got object capabilities, which blow me away, and I'd be a lier if I said I was totally familiar with them. However, some of the more complicated select statements I've pulled off with PostgreSQL have left me not missing Oracle... Which used to be the only place I could pull off such selects. But your mileage will vary, I'm sure. I'm confident Firebird is a very capable database. On Wed, 2007-03-14 at 16:06 +0100, Uwe Grauer wrote: > Joe Brown wrote: > > doh, I followed up my last post on the wrong thread, DOH. > > > > firebird looks promising. Probably easiest/free multiuser database to > > deploy, but the list of "known issues" look a little scary. Probably > > not very threatening for most deployments. > > > > Which known issues do you refer to? > There are known issues because development isn't as fast as with other > databases, but that also means that it is usally rock solid. > The only way to crash it, is bad transaction handling under high loads > and bad hardware. > > > Is firebird true client/server? I seem to remember that it wasn't, > > which may or may not be a good thing. > > Yes, it is true client/server. > It never was anything else. > Of cause there is also a embedded version, which is not client/server > and never was. > > >> For more info's about firebird: > >> http://leafe.com/archives/showMsg/343205 > > Uwe > > _______________________________________________ > Post Messages to: [email protected] > Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/dabo-users > _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/dabo-users
