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Firebird 2.0 Debian packages
Hi, everybody,
After much delay, I’ve finally prepared debian packages of 2.0 branch of firebird. They can be reached at [1]. This is the RC4 release from 13th of August.
These packages conflict with 1.5.3 series, so if you want to give your databases a try (strongly encouraged), backup them with 1.5.3 *before* installing 2.0 packages.
Please give these a hard time testing and don’t forget to send feedback to pkg-firebird-general@lists.alioth.debian.org. Reading Release Notes[2] would help avoiding common problems.
KInterbasDB 3.2 is released
KInterbasDB is a Python extension package that implements Python Database API 2.0-compliant support for the open source relational database Firebird and some versions of its proprietary cousin Borland Interbase. In addition to the minimal feature set of the standard Python DB API, KInterbasDB also exposes nearly the entire native client API of the database engine.
KInterbasDB is free–covered by a permissive BSD-style license that both commercial and noncommercial users should find agreeable.
What’s new in release 3.2?
RC4 is out… and, there will be RC5.
Release Candidate 4 for Firebird 2.0 should start to appear in the mirrors today. Unfortunately, due to a late-breaking issue that was reported and confirmed after these builds were in the system, it should not be treated as production-ready, yet.
The issue has been addressed and is undergoing QA now. RC 5 should appear before the end of the month. In the meantime, please look at the fixes between RC3 and RC4 and check that any issues you had have been satisfactorily resolved.
SAP and in-memory DBs
While SAP has no designs to be a database vendor—it tried and failed with MaxDB, which is now part of the MySQL community—sources close to the company have suggested that SAP could be working on a hybrid approach or something similar. “Basically there is no reason SAP couldn’t work with IBM and others on making [in-memory] work well on hardware,” said a source close to the company who requested anonymity. “Probably that’s the company that would be the most benefited. The vendor that [it] would be most disruptive for would be Oracle.”
Read full article here.
EdNote: Would Firebird be a good candidate?
New poll at FirebirdNews
We have a new poll in the site, specially directed to people going to Firebird Conference 2006, in Prague.
Firebird 1.5.3 SS for MacOS (x86)
Users of “Intel” version of Apple Macintosh can now download a Firebird 1.5.3 SuperServer version for that platform. Thanks to Gili Buzaglo.
Results of “Why do you use Firebird?” poll
A poll conducted by FireBase (Brazilian Firebird portal) reports the following results for the question “Why do you use Firebird?”:
Total votes: 1340
- Open Source (427 votes) [32%]
- Integration with Delphi (372 votes) [28%]
- Stability (131 votes) [10%]
- Small footprint (95 votes) [7%]
- Simple to use (94 votes) [7%]
- Multiplatform (81 votes) [6%]
- Features (55 votes) [4%]
- Fast (38 votes) [3%]
- Other (36 votes) [3%]
- Community (11 votes) [1%]
Spread FBNews posts
The FirebirdNews site now offers pre-built links in every post, to make it easier to users share it in many “social bookmarking” sites, like Digg, Del.icio.us, etc. You can find the “share” links (gliphs) at the end of each post.
In-memory databases
SAP may have stumbled onto an Oracle killer: in-memory technology that could, in theory, quash the need for a relational database in some cases.
Read full article here.