Hi! What to choose - InterBase/FireBird or MySQL - depends on the tasks you are going to solve with your SQL server. InterBase/FireBird is intended for managing a quite large and complicate databases, where a lot of business rules should be realized and stored in common database instead of being realized in each client application separately, where referential integrity plays a significant role, where subselects are often used, and so on. For these purposes InterBase/FireBird provides wide variety of facilities: triggers, stored procedures, exceptions, checks and foreign keys, and so on. But if you need to develop a small database and do it quickly and easily - than you better do it with MySQL. Of course, MySQL is the best solution for web development and site management - because speed becomes one of the main factors here, and because it works very well with PHP.
BTW, FireBird costs the same as MySQL and is distributed under open source license. http://www.firebirdsql.org/ And finally I would like to note that we like both of these servers and have already developed administration and development tools for MySQL, InterBase/FireBird and even PostgreSQL. :) http://www.sqlmanager.net Best regards, Vadim Vinokur EMS HiTech http://www.ems-hitech.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Maciej Bobrowski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, February 18, 2003 4:27 PM Subject: InterBase vs. Mysql > > Hi, > > I am a MySQL admin. I like it very much. It is very quick,stable and > easy in configuration. > But I have a boss, who has been told about InterBase. He told me I should > interest in the InterBase, because it is programmed by russian, who made a > great project and told him mysql is totaly worse in comparison with the > InterBase. Actually he didn't prooved it, he just heared about it from the > russians. Did anyone met with the InterBase and can tel me something about > it and prove me that the Mysql is BETTER? I need arguments for using the > MySQL for a company (lets tell about 100 people, who use it very > intensive through the whole day 7 days a week). > > Best regards, > > Maciej Bobrowski > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Before posting, please check: > http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) > http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) > > To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php
