On 08/09/2011 11:51, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > Firebird is the easiers and smallest by FAR! At it has many more > feature - at least compared to MySQL. So small doesn't mean less > features here. > > A full Firebird Server download is a mere 8-12MB download. It can > even run on a Windows 98 system if you wanted, so resource using in > minimal too (obviously depending on how many concurrent connections > you handle). A client-only install is even smaller, but you can use > the same setup files, just select "client libraries only" during the > install. > That's cool.
> Even installing Firebird from a tar.gz file on Linux (not via a > distro repository), it takes no more than 2 minutes to setup. I use Windows (blush) XP 32 bit and Lazarus 0.9.28.2... (which is an improvement since the original system is written in VC++ 6.0) Oh well, something to think about when time comes to integrate this, for now it's nowhere near that stage, yet. [...] > We have tested our company applications on Firebird, MySql and > PostgreSQL. Our application behaved the same on all, though the > queries where quite a bit slower on PostgreSQL for some reason. So > maybe that 3rdParty component was rubbish. MySQL just sucks with all > it's limited features. MySQL is only popular because of marketing > and hype (eg: LAMP) - not because of features and stability. > Yeah, heard that too. and just when I thought all's jolly good, On Thu, 8 Sep 2011, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: > But which variant of Firebird? If I recall correctly there are three, > I was prodding at it a bit a few months ago and came to the > conclusion that Firebird classic might be a viable alternative to > PostgreSQL since it provided an equivalent to the listen/notify > commands. :) Lukasz -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
