Darkblue wrote: > One of the advantages is a smaller footprint , > you just have one database file which holds data > and indexes, it is fast over the network , sql-92 > compliant ,triggers, stored procs are implemented > a long time and work very well, there is an x86_64 version for linux > and windows. > There is an evergrowing community of firebird > users and developers which could contribute in > many ways to the project.
Firebird *is* a nice RDBMS (I used to use it a little back when it was Interbase, a commercial product) but I don't see any of the above gives us a compelling reason to switch from MySQL. Also, MySQL support in perl is much more mature, simply because it's been around longer. So, given that we're talking about an embedded system here (the user doesn't need to know which DB is being used, or even that a DB is being used at all) I don't see any advantage to using anything othe than MySQL. R. _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
