An ODBC driver for Firebird on MacOSX

Via Paul Beach Blog

I was recently contacted by a Firebird user on MacOSX who was trying to get the Firebird ODBC driver to build on MacOSX. I thought I would try and step in to help.

For those of you who follow the CVS checkins for OdbcJdbc you might have noticed the addition of a number of a new directory in the Builds directory called Gcc.darwin containing a makefile, a readme and a .sh file to create a lipo’ed dylib. The driver sucessfully builds and passes some simple tests. Feel free to contact me for a copy of the dylib to test further.

The readme contains the following information

Microsoft Access killer : LibreOffice Base + Firebird

There is a discussion on the libreoffice-dev about replacing the HSQLDB default database used in libre base with something better and faster than the java based solution:)

* SQLite vs. HSQLDB for base (Lionel)
+ SQLite very sloppy typing can cause serious problems cf.
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38811#c22
+ no date/time datatype.
=> perhaps not a good idea to switch to sqlite longer term
+ without tons of special casing, get lots of
nasty bugs outside string, float
+ a new candidate with sane licensing, sane language,
and code size required – thinking ongoing.
+ our best shot might be firebird
+ MPL license variant
+ feature set looks good

Update : Firebird Driver and Embedded version merged and integreated into LibreOffice git master

Firebird Data Wizard 12.6 released

Firebird Data Wizard SQL Maestro Group announces the release of Firebird Data Wizard 12.6, a powerful Windows GUI utility for Firebird data management.

Firebird Data Wizard provides you with a number of easy-to-use wizards to convert any ADO-compatible database to the Firebird database, import data into
Firebird tables, export data from tables, views and queries to most popular file formats as well as generate data-driven ASP.NET pages for your Firebird database.

New version introduces SQL Dump wizard, user-defined data type mappings, auto arranging target tables by dependencies and lots of other new features.

There are also other useful things as well as versions for other DBMS (MySQL, Oracle, SQL Server, DB2, PostgreSQL, etc). Read full press release.

Dozens of new options for Firebird and .NET Framework

Hey!

If you have ever worked with Firebird or Interbase using the standard .NET provider for OLE DB (System.Data.OleDb), you will have likely encountered issues like this:

  • The necessity to add ALL parameters manually.
  • Even though the OLE DB provider supports parameter generation for commands, the .NET provider doesn’t use it, so you as the programmer must do that work on your own.
  • The lack of support for named parameters. Although they actually exist, using them in reality requires a whole set of complex manipulations (the steps needed to add a parameter to a collection, etc.).
  • The impossibility of using multiple DataReader objects at the same time (Multiple Active Result Sets).
  • No execution of SQL scripts which contain several SQL expressions per command.

This list of difficulties a .NET developer has to deal with is far from complete.

Now it’s all different in a fundamentally new ADO.NET Data Provider for OLE DB

IBProvider Team

Firebird driver

node-firebird vs node-firebird-libfbclient (pure JavaScript driver vs Firebird library wrapper)

Denys Khanzhiyev (node-firebird-libfbclient creator) wrote on nodejs mailing list:
I must admit your lib is faster than mine (See the response from Henry (node-firebird creator) , it is the result of the firebird library mode of operation : synchronous vs asynchronous mode of nodejs)

Here is code
https://gist.github.com/2854642

here is ab results

node-firebird-libfbclient:

Concurrency Level: 5
Time taken for tests: 3.346934 seconds
Complete requests: 1000
Total transferred: 885000 bytes
HTML transferred: 821000 bytes
Requests per second: 298.78 [#/sec] (mean)
Time per request: 16.735 [ms] (mean)
Time per request: 3.347 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)
Transfer rate: 258.15 [Kbytes/sec] received

node-firebird:

Concurrency Level: 5
Time taken for tests: 2.928723 seconds
Complete requests: 1000
Total transferred: 885000 bytes
HTML transferred: 821000 bytes
Requests per second: 341.45 [#/sec] (mean)
Time per request: 14.644 [ms] (mean)
Time per request: 2.929 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)
Transfer rate: 295.01 [Kbytes/sec] received

Database Workbench 4.2.4 FREE Lite Editions released

Upscene Productions is proud to announce the next
version of the popular multi-DBMS development tool:

Database Workbench 4.2.4 Pro

The free Lite Editions are now available.

For more information, see here.

Click here for the full list of changes in v4.2.4

Database Workbench supports:
– Borland InterBase
– Firebird
– MS SQL Server/MSDE
– MySQL
– Oracle Database
– Sybase SQL Anywhere
– NexusDB

The Lite Editions are available for:
– InterBase
– Firebird
– MySQL

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