I looked into Firebird, and found it was a very potent DB solution. I opted for PostgreSQL for several reasons. Firebird had minimal documentation from 3rd party persons at the time (likely changed by now), PostgreSQL is at least as potent and totally free, the other alternative DB was MySQL, and I did not like the 2 tier license (I guess I bet right on that one, eh?).
Firebird is also totally free, and if it has good documentation available it would be a fine solution for a high performance DataBase. That said, I encourage you to look at PostgreSQL. Free, excellent performance, great documentation available and multi-platform. Gil Gilbert M. Hale [email protected] 585-359-8085 - Office (Rolls To Cellular) 585-202-4341 - Cellular/Voice Mail Legal Advisory: I have had a security expert advise me to embed the following statement in all outgoing eMails. Please read it. The statement below pertains to any person receiving or reading this document, whether or not they are the intended recipient or have intercepted this information as a non-secured communication transmitted over the Internet. Be advised you are required to comply with the following statement: This email communication (and any attached file or files) is intended only for the recipient(s) listed above. If you are neither an intended recipient, or a person responsible for the delivery of this communication to the intended recipient, you are hereby advised that any use, distribution or copying of the information in this communication is prohibited. The information transmitted in this email communication, and any attached file(s), may include confidential material protected by a privileged attorney/client relationship, may be an attorney work product, or may be work performed for a client that contains confidential information. Further, an attorney/client privilege includes CPA related work under the "Kovel Rule" and other similar State and/or Federal protections. If you have received this information in error please notify the sender immediately via return email, or at 585-359-8085 > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:profoxtech- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Ed Leafe > Sent: Tuesday, February 23, 2010 3:59 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [NF] anyone heard of "Firebird" DB server? > > On Feb 23, 2010, at 3:27 PM, Jarvis, Matthew wrote: > > > I am being told (I am dubious though) that Firebird bogs down at > around > > 15 users, and anything more than that should be a SQL Server > > implementation. > > There is an embedded version of Firebird; perhaps that's what they > were referring to? > > Or perhaps this was a Microsoft guy who was only comfortable with > SQL Server. ;-) > > > I realize that there's a big difference between "15 users" and "15 > > concurrent users" i.e. who is hitting the DB and when - but are there > > any limitations like this that you know of? > > > No, nothing like that at all. In fact, I've heard quite the > opposite. > > > -- Ed Leafe > > > > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/0bbf01cab4d5$fd822900$f8867b...@com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
