David Wheeler wrote: > > Anybody familiar with the Firebird database project? > > http://firebird.sourceforge.net/ > > I know that it's a fork of the Borland database, but know nothing > about its features. Is there a DBI driver, by chance? What features > does it, uh, feature? How does it compare to MySQL and PostgreSQL?
I haven't had the chance to use it myself, but a friend of mine really likes it. It has enterprise ready features like *real* stored procedures (MySQL hasn't, PostgreSQL only emulates them), good transaction support (PostgreSQL is acceptable, but MySQL still isn't), subselects (missing in MySQL) etc. Look at the documentation... I plan to use it myself in my next database project. Best regards, Martin Stricker -- Homepage: http://www.martin-stricker.de/ Linux Migration Project: http://www.linux-migration.org/ Red Hat Linux 7.3 for low memory: http://www.rule-project.org/ Registered Linux user #210635: http://counter.li.org/
