Very useful information. Anyone know for sure if the issues that Kurt describes are addressed in the latest FB?

Phil.

Wilkin, Kurt wrote:
Rob Martin wrote:
  
I guess that answer would be....  When the DB requires a Cluster to
handle the number of transactions / Connections required.  FB doesn't
do Clusters, I guess Oracle does.


    

Basically.

FWIW, in about '99 the place I was at started
running into trouble after ~50 connections on
IB 5.
Would've been early days of 5 though, and
Firebird, IB 6+ and all the OS and network
stuff would've improved a lot since then.

That database was >30GB (in the days
that your home box would have a 1-8GB drive :)

And I'm pretty sure with IB (definitely for 
Firefox) you could multiplex connections if 
you wanted, which some db Vendors'll charge 
you for.

The other thing - elsewhere - we used to run
into was hitting a sweep and clean in IB, 
where if you touch a large number of records,
the query will be slowed down multiple times
for the database to do its housekeeping, which
could be painful.

Cheers, Kurt.


  
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