Hello, as Dimitry suggested, I want to propose, based on my experience,
what is required by new customers I'm trying to work with and existing
customers. Most of them are registered in tracker.
Allways my customers require me features that oracle and sql server has,
and I have lost new clients because they do not want firebird and I have
not been able to convince them. I think the next two features are very
important for Firebird future direction. May be, we have to move from
Firebird to another RDMS, because for now is a stopper for every new
customer and for existing ones. Some years ago, it was not so important,
but now we are having problems with it.
1. Built-in replication. Our customers want to have databases replicated
and been able to move connections to another center in case of
server/center hardware crash. I know there is replications applications in
firebird, but them are not what is needed. (CORE-2021)
2. Clustering. Allow access from two or more servers to a database.
(CORE-2719)
Now other features I would like to have:
1. Transaction ID datatype. In v3, Transaction ID has changed to unsigned,
but may be better a greater data type, like 40 bits value. Everyday
databases grows, require more transactions and more users. Current
transactionID is limit for the near future.
2. Support for SQL Schemas. CORE-738
3. Service calls for aliases.conf CORE-1422
Regards,
Jesus
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