Cedric,
As a current user of Firebird 1.5.x in a number of applications, I find it has
a congenial development environment, provides transaction control, is able to
handle multiple users (though that is not a concern for you, at present), is
easily replicated, has good performance and is reliable. It does not have many
built-in functions, but may be enhanced through user defined functions (UDF).
If by "secure data" you mean encryption and password protection, Firebird 1.5
is a bit deficient in both (and also has security issues,
http://securityvulns.com/soft/8291.html and
http://archive.cert.uni-stuttgart.de/debian-security-announce/2008/03/msg00023.html).
Firebird 2.x should be a better starting point. Encryption could be provided
in the front end or by UDF.
Years of experience with native Delphi IB components and Firebird 1.5.x has
shown it to be a reliable database for files from MB to GB in size (though I
also use and like Oracle, where the far larger footprint, maintenance overhead
and costs are warranted).
Bart
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Which best DB would you use with Delphi7 today for a single user application
with :
- secure data
- dynamic (auto startup like Interbase/Firebird)
- freeware if possible
- querying with good performance
- transactionnal
Cedric
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