On Thu, 03 Jul 2003 10:05:11 -0400 "brett holcomb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
|I'm looking for a database for use on my home systems - |doesn't have to handle large transactions. I was planning |on using PostGRESQL but noticed Firebird and was doing |some reading on it. Any pros or cons, experiences of one |vs the other? | |Thanks. ]- I will bet on Firebird. :") I have used PostgeSQL in the past and was not so impressed... at that time it lacked alot of features (notably outer joins), now I think it is OK. Some good feature of PG object-oriented TABLE specs(inheritance) and such.. Interbase have been around for much longer time. As I wrote earlier : ]- firebird(interbase) - multiversioning engine(i.e not lock based), small-footprint, install&forget, fork&threaded variants, subselects/joins/triggers/etc all is there... very simple way to add new functions via Delphi/Kylix or C (UDF) - SUSPEND in stored-procs i.e. stored-proc may behave like normal TABLE ( i.e. SELECT * FROM storedproc() ) - before/after triggers - The creator of interbase still work on FireBird. - afaik interbase is used in M1 tank :") - from all DB I know, it is avail. on more platforms that others - long history, do u remember Borland was No1 in DB - there is records of working DB as large as 200-400GB http://firebirdsql.org/ http://firebirdsql.org/index.php?op=history&id=beginning -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
