4 key distinctions of the new IBProvider v3.4 that make your applications faster

4 key distinctions of the new IBProvider v3.4 that make your applications faster:

Firebird driver become faster

  1. Possibility to abort lengthy loading of resulting rowsets in SQL scripts.
  2. Control and adjustment at your own discretion of deferred data loading.
  3. Accelerated work with BLOB fields and arrays in updatable rowsets.
  4. Background garbage collector became multithreaded.

Please read details here: Firebird driver become faster

Where should you go for open source support?

An interesting story and discussion on ZDNet:

If you’re taking software free and buying support from elsewhere, the guys who built the program can’t eat, unless they find a way to get a rake-off from the support team’s revenue. Which isn’t going to happen. Or start charging you directly for their code updates, which might.

It would be interesting so see ideas discussed there apply to Firebird in any way.

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