Joshua D. Drake wrote:
Haven't used it, but your question sparked a little interest so I spent some time trawling through their web-site.Benjamin Smith wrote:
As a long-time user of Postgres, (First started using it at 7.0) I'm reading recently that Firebird has been taking off as a database.
Perhaps this is not the best place to ask this, but is there any compelling advantage to using Firebird over Postgres?
Firebird is a nice database but I don't think it can scale as well as PostgreSQL. IIRC they just added support for SMP. Also, although their community is very active I do not believe it is as large nor does it have the commercial backing like PostgreSQL.
Sincerely,
Joshua D. Drake Command Prompt, Inc.
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Like many open-source projects, documentation seems to be lagging a *very* long way behind the code. One of the things that has really impressed me with Postgres is the quality and thoroughness of the documentation. As a developer I need API documentation, not just a quick start guide and list of errors. I tend to avoid projects that don't bother with the documentation (I gave up on Slony-I very quickly for exactly the same reason!)
Pete -- http://www.whitebeam.org http://www.yellowhawk.co.uk
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