I was very disappointed by Interbase/Firebird. It seemed to me like a MS-Access: a database-engine that works on regular files
What gave you that idea? Firebird (and InterBase of course) use a at least 1 file per database, but that's all. Can you define "regular files"?
My idea of Firebird is the following: There a library that can access a file and use it as a database.
that very much like using the MS-Jet-Engine which is the backend to MS-Access.
OK, there is a network-server component, but it really has nothing to do with an enterprise-DB.
There's a server side process waiting for incoming connections just like with MySQL, MS SQL Server, Oracle etc etc...
Well, the network-server seemed to me like an application that uses the library i mentioned above. It doesn't seem to me like a big application like MySql or MaxDB. In other words: Firebird seems to be light weight DBMS. MySQL and MaxDB have a multi-threaded kernel that maintains its own cache, coordinates locks, etc.
I don't think that Firebird's architecture is like that.
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