> I just read an article that mentioned Interbase, from what I read either
> one would be fine as they both support transactions and commit/rollback
> from what I understand.
>
Yes, Interbase is *really* a complete product.
This was a commercial product for years.
Bought by Ashton-Tate at some point, bought with Ashton-Tate by Borland, now
Inprise.
Borland/Inprise has never been able to put the right marketing around it.
And the product has been long called "the best kept secret of the database
world".
Since January 2000 things have changed.
Inprise has decided to open-source it.
A new Interbase company is being readied right now, focusing on stable
builds distribution, manual edition and sale, boxed distribution sale (for a
small fee related to the box and manual), consultancy and professionnal
support.
The product itself, now in the last days of beta of its 6.0 version, will be
freely available for download and deployment, wether in binary or source
format.
We relied on it for years as a strong professional, highly capable,
complete, well supported SQL database engine. It is performant, has a small
disk and memory footprint, and is very flexible. Now that it is open-source
(see http://www.interbase.com/IPL.html), and taking into account the number
of highly skilled programming professionnal already reviewing and working on
its code, its future is more than bright.
The new Interbase company is headed by Ann Harison, former people of the
original Interbase company. And Jim Starkey, the original designer, is now a
very active technical advisor, who will not only contribute the code base
(he's right now writing a brand new ODBC top-of-the-art driver) but also
give guidance to co-ordinate the new community development efforts on the
product.
Sorry for this off-topic post, but I trully think within some monthes
Interbase will be very well known and used by lots of open-source groups and
projects. We'd better all know about it now.
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