What are the alternatives to Apache and PostgreSQL?
Read more on the Liam Wilkie’s blog
Month: May 2006
Firebird and Multi Version Concurrency Control – why is so good
Spotted on dotnetfirebird blog
A nice white paper by Roman Rokytskyy that describes the multi version concurrency control system used in Firebird in comparison to IBM DB2 and Oracle 9i.
I found this quote on the Hibernate Tuning blog: [Ed:They linked to the Roman’s Page , Scroll down to “db2 and friends”]
In fact glaring are the benchmarks published by MySQL. I’d put to you that MVCC support is probably more important than a lot of other concerns in transactional computing (as opposed to batch processing and OLTAP type stuff)
Updated Downloads at dotnetfirebird.org
I’ve updated the downloads page to show the most recent versions:
- Firebird Server for Windows 1.5.3
- Firebird Embedded for Windows 1.5.3
- Firebird Server for Windows 2 RC1
- Firebird Embedded for Windows 2 RC1
- Firebird ADO.NET Provider 1.7.1 for .NET Framework 1.1
- FirebirdClient 2 RC3 for .NET Framework 2.0
Posted by Dan : @ dotnetfirebird.org
Ingres: Can You Ever Go Back?
[ED:worth reading it – a short intro to ingres history ]
Read more at Mark Logic CEO Blog
Firebird database support in Fogbugz ?
Backup Firebird Databases
There are to different backup Systems in Firebird:
nBackup included in Firebird 2.0 an up
and gBak included in Firebird since humm, good old Borland days back in 199x up to the (still in beta) Firebird 2.0.
When you dont want to struggle with the commandline switches of gbak, you can use the (very useful) GUI-Frontend for gbak developed and provided for free by Talat Dogan: FIBS Firebird-Interbase Backup Scheduler
Read more on this blog
Subscriptions to FDD are online
Brazilians who want to participate in the 3rd Firebird Developers Day, to be held in Piracicaba – SP – Brazil in 29/July, can now make their subscriptions online in the conference site.