Open Source Databases Have Come of Age
These are by no means the only open source databases designed for embedding. Firebird, for example, is a descendant of the Borland Interbase product and has a strong following.
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Loading...Russian Firebird Conference pictures
The Russian Firebird Conference has just finished, with 114 attendees! You can check some pictures here.
PS: Curious about FB 2.5 (final) release date? Well, start the countdown! More about this….. soon 😉
(5 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)Loading...#python3 dbapi for firebird #rdbms released
It’s not the official api but you can test it from github
firebirdsql 0.1.0: python3 dbapi for firebird rdbms.
http://pypi.python.org/pypi/firebirdsql/0.1.0
ps:via pypy twitter bot
(1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)Loading...Little helper library for writing #UDFs for Firebird in #Lua
Helper C library for writing UDFs for Firebird in Lua (as well as a small collection of useful UDFs). The Firebird UDF interface would hopefully be obsoleted in Firebird v3.0 and replaced with the new External Engine API. Until then, I hope you find this little library helpful. Any feedback is welcome and appreciated.
http://code.google.com/p/firebird-lua-udfs/
For tips on how to write UDFs for Firebird yourself, read UdfWritingTips.
PS: If writing UDFs in Lua seems overkill, checkout the other UDF library written in freepascal.
(1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)Loading...Firebird to be included in #Mageia : a new GNU #Linux distribution based on #Mandriva Ashes
Firebird history and Mageia story are related to each other , here are the Philippe’s kind words
A new GNU Linux distribution is born : Mageia, a Mandriva Linux fork.
So why speak about this here ?
First, Firebird packages need a maintainer and as I am the one in Mandriva, I will do the same in Mageia
Second, this story remind me a little the Firebird story
Third I’m enthusiast to contribute (may be more than only Firebird related packages) to a such challenging adventure, and in this one, there are people that I really trust.
Long live Mageia : http://www.mageia.org/
(3 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)Loading...Artur Anjos will be with Paulo Gaspar presenting The Firebird #Database talk at #codebits2010
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and here are the full details of the talk very impressive :The Firebird Database: simple, free and powerful
http://codebits.eu/intra/s/proposal/112
Artur Anjos, a Firebird Project member, finally registered himself on Codebits in order to share this presentation.
http://codebits.eu/arturanjos
Artur is with Firebird almost since the project started and has more than 8 years of production experience with it.
(1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)Loading...Debian packages of Firebird 2.5.0-to-be in experimental
I have uploaded packages of Firebird from the R2_5_0
tag in SVN to Debian/experimental. No guarantees these will match the official release, but may be worth a try for those who want to live on the edge.
Short guide of installing packages from the experimental branch is available here.
(1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)Loading...Multi-player browser game powered by Firebird is launched in the biggest Russian social network VKontakte
Multi-player browser game powered by Firebird is launched in the biggest Russian social network VKontakte
http://vkontakte.ru/app1952337
ReTweet from Minthebird campaign.
(2 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)Loading...Firebird videos on youtube (thanks to Holger Klemt)
There are many Firebird videos on youtube uploaded by Holger Klemnt
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxeB8k5H1N4
Enjoy and retweet Doru notice
(3 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)Loading...gbak running in embedded mode
матрациThose who are new to the Classic version of Firebird on Linux may find interesting that, while running gbak to backup a database, accessing the DB file locally (not by tcp/ip, etc), you will not find a fb_inet_server proccess serving the gbak connection. This is because, in this specific situation, gbak works in embedded mode. Alex Peshkov says this provides the best performance results.
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