I used Interbase about four years ago in a production environment. It used
to be a commercial product distributed by Inprise(Borland at the time)
before they open sourced it. It is a very good relational database product.
It has most of the features you would expect from a commercial product.
The only negative that I have against Interbase, is it's lack of clustering
support. It has what they refer to as a shadow that should the machine go
down, you can get a second server up and running right away.
It has a JDBC driver called InterClient. I have had success with this
driver except for one quirk. Everynight at midnight, the InterClient
service would error and stop receiving requests. they might have fixed this
problem with their latest version.
I don't have any info on online back ups.
My experience has been with the Windows NT environment. Interbase has been
cross platform for many years though. Another thing to consider in the
Linux environment, is a journaling file system such as ReiserFS. I am not
sure what would happen to your database file if the power suddenly went out
or the computer shut down unexpectedly while the database was writing to the
file.
-Jason
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jim Archer
Sent: Friday, October 27, 2000 11:26 AM
To: Orion-Interest
Cc: Jonas Larsson
Subject: Anyone using Interbase in production?
Does anyone here have any experience with Interbase in a production
environment? We are trying to decide which database to deploy in
production. Since we are a very low budget operation, we are looking at
Open Source, but somehow missed this one.
Our most important requirements are stability, transaction support, a solid
JDBC driver (for use with an EJB server) and online backup capability.
Any experiences people can offer would be appreciated, especially in a
Linux environment.
Thanks!
Jim
--On Friday, October 27, 2000 11:46 AM +0200 Jonas Larsson
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> You could always use Interbase which now is opensource..
> http://www.interbase.com
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Laufer, Michael
> To: Orion-Interest
> Sent: Friday, October 27, 2000 10:41 AM
> Subject: MYSQL, Orion, EJB and transactions ??
>
>
> Hi there,
>
> I know that the question has been discussed here before, but I'm still a
> little confused about using MYSQL together with Orion.
> I've just downloaded mysql (version 3.23.22 beta) and the manual
> announces that mysql is now supporting transactions. If I understood it
> correctly, that would mean, that it should be possible to use mysql with
> entity beans. Am I right ?? What's confusing to me is the fact, that I
> only find news in mailing-list, that mysql is not supporting
> transactions.
>
> So I don't really now, if I can use mysql for entity beans.
> If not, which database would you suggest ??
> It should work on NT and not be the most expensive one as I use it 'only'
> for writing my Master's Thesis.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Michel
>
