Month: May 2009

“InterXpress for Firebird” v2.2.0 released

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“InterXpress for Firebird” is our driver that supports Borlands
dbExpress technology! Today we release version 2.2.0 of our driver,
this version includes support for Delphi 2009 and extended support
for widestring/UTF8 data.

You can download a copy of it http://www.upscene.com

Currently supported are Delphi 6, Delphi 7, BDS 2006, Delphi 2007,
RAD Studio/Delphi 2009, Kylix 3 and C++Builder 6.

What’s fixed, new and changed? Check it out here:
version 2.2.0 changes
version 2.1.0 changes

Time to nominate Firebird for CCA 2009

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The time for nominating Firebird for the Sourceforge Community Choice Awards has arrived! Firebird already won several categories in 2007, now let’s try to repeat it again! Click the button below and fill the nomination form. I suggest to nominate Firebird for the following categories:

  • Best Project
  • Best Tool or Utility for Developers
  • Best Project for the Enterprise

Firebird Embedded reviewed

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I was looking for a small and powerful database in order to fulfil the requirements of my last project. Because the database will be running locally I took the decision to use an embedded database. After a few searches over the Internet and some embedded database comparison reviews, I found Firebird which is actually a powerful but unknown (yet) relational database system. Here are some great features of the Firebird embedded database version:

Read more.

Microfocus buys Borland

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Marco Cantu published in his blog that Borland (the previous owner of InterBase) was acquired by Microfocus. Read more here.

Note that InterBase, Delphi and all the other development tools owned previously by Borland was aquired by Embarcadero sometime ago (when they bought CodeGear).

JbConsole 0.2.0 released

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JbConsole is a Firebird console tool. I have tested with Jython 2.5b3 and Jaybird 2.1.6 .
(java 1.6 on Windows XP and java 1.5 on OS X 10.5)
It’s still toy level, but it seems to be sample implementation of Jaybird and Jython.
http://www005.upp.so-net.ne.jp/nakagami/Download/JbConsole_0_2_0.zip

See the screen shot
http://nakagami.blog.so-net.ne.jp/2009-02-09

ED:Translated with google , I like his words about Jython

Swing and Java (JVM) I fast. 驚いた。 I was surprised.

Real life latency of a Firebird server

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I just evaluated a switch of a Firebird server from a virtual VMware server to a physical server, and the results were stunning. I measured simple select SQL statements to a very small table, and on the virtual server, more than 90% of the queries finished in more than 20ms, and the median was between 20-30ms normally, and sometimes up to 80%. The 99% percentile was out of scale.

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