On 17 June 2010 10:30, Joost van der Sluis <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, 2010-06-17 at 09:39 +0200, Luca Olivetti wrote: >> En/na Michael Van Canneyt ha escrit: >> >> > I don't know where you read it, but it's definitely false. >> > or outdated. firebird embedded works on linux, windows, mac. >> > >> > I've been using it since years; version 2.0 and 2.1. Works very well >> > with FPC, and unlike sqlite, it offers the possibility to work with >> > full-blown client/server architecture without change in program code. >> >> I don't know if it's outdated but overall I think this is a fair comparison: >> >> http://www.sqlite.org/cvstrac/wiki?p=SqliteVersusFirebird >> >> In my case the deciding factor was the last one: >> >> "Concurrency >> >> SQLite allows multiple programs to be connected to the same database >> simultaneously. The embedded version of Firebird does not. If you run >> Firebird in client/server mode, it allows concurrent access with >> fine-grain locking. But in embedded mode, only one program can connect >> to the database at a time." > > Yes, but read this forum-thread. (This applies to the used dataset > offcourse) > > http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php/topic,9504.0.html
So firebird _does_ support accessing the same database from different host programs in version 2.5. This version has a release candidate, so presumably a release won't be long. Good to know. Henry -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
