On 03.05.2006, at 20:49 Uhr, Pierce T. Wetter III wrote:

 1. Its a real database. IMHO it rivals Oracle, not MySQL/Postgres.

 2. It supports every Foundation type directly.

 3. If you pay for support, its outstanding.

4. 3 choices for db admin tools: a web server, a cocoa app, and a java app

5. The database connection library is really simple for you bare metal guys. I have a PyObjC wrapper for it in Python that lets me poke around in the database using
    Python.

6. My compatriot at Marketocracy just got it working with Ruby on Rails, and of course, its supported WO from the get-go.

- Doesn't use index with or-clauses.

- Has problems with some types of joins (extremely slow).

We had also issues with crashes sometimes without being able to reproduce it.

This should not say, that I don't like Frontbase - I use it in several projects and know the advantages. But I know the disadvantages as well.

cug
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