What are the alternatives to Apache and PostgreSQL?
Read more on the Liam Wilkie’s blog
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Spotted on dotnetfirebird blog
A nice white paper by Roman Rokytskyy that describes the multi version concurrency control system used in Firebird in comparison to IBM DB2 and Oracle 9i.
I found this quote on the Hibernate Tuning blog: [Ed:They linked to the Roman’s Page , Scroll down to “db2 and friends”]
In fact glaring are the benchmarks published by MySQL. I’d put to you that MVCC support is probably more important than a lot of other concerns in transactional computing (as opposed to batch processing and OLTAP type stuff)
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I’ve updated the downloads page to show the most recent versions:
- Firebird Server for Windows 1.5.3
- Firebird Embedded for Windows 1.5.3
- Firebird Server for Windows 2 RC1
- Firebird Embedded for Windows 2 RC1
- Firebird ADO.NET Provider 1.7.1 for .NET Framework 1.1
- FirebirdClient 2 RC3 for .NET Framework 2.0
Posted by Dan : @ dotnetfirebird.org
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[ED:worth reading it – a short intro to ingres history ]
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(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Backup Firebird Databases
There are to different backup Systems in Firebird:
nBackup included in Firebird 2.0 an up
and gBak included in Firebird since humm, good old Borland days back in 199x up to the (still in beta) Firebird 2.0.
When you dont want to struggle with the commandline switches of gbak, you can use the (very useful) GUI-Frontend for gbak developed and provided for free by Talat Dogan: FIBS Firebird-Interbase Backup Scheduler
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(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Subscriptions to FDD are online
Brazilians who want to participate in the 3rd Firebird Developers Day, to be held in Piracicaba – SP – Brazil in 29/July, can now make their subscriptions online in the conference site.
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(No Ratings Yet)Loading...David Intersimone on Borland spin-out "DevCo"
The leadership team of DevCo includes: Nigel Brown, Michael Swindell, Steve Todd, Alan Bauer, Ben Netick, and David Intersimone. They have 3-year roadmaps for Delphi, JBuilder, and Interbase. The size of DevCo will be ~250-300 at the start, i.e. about 20% of Borland's workforce. "Develop" has $100 mln in sales, about 30% of the total. Sounds like "DevCo" will be quite profitable from the start.
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(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Jim Starkey: Introducing Falcon (Storage Engine for MySQL)
Last session of the MySQL UC is Jim Starkey giving an introduction to the new Falcon storage engine. Jim is an icon in the database field, was the creator of MVCC and the BLOB data type. There’s a can of Falcon beer for anyone who asks a good question.
Read the Falcon intro
[Ed :When i read the word Falcon i always associate it with Millennium Falcon, Yes Jim is fighting a good cause against evil empire ;)]
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