Firebird 1.5 Linux CS RC8 released. This RC has many small enhancements in install procedure made by Mark O’Donohue and it should install more “smoothly”. Additionally, this is the first RC built with external debug info which
you can download separately.Download from here. Also Firebird 1.5 RC8 Source Code is now available for download as a (.tar.bz2). Roman Rokytskyy announces the availability of the JayBird V1.5 Beta 1 release (Firebird Class 4 JCA-JDBC Driver).
Elsewhere, the SAP Web Application Server support high availability through the technique called switchover. The installation, configuration, and testing procedures are documented to provide readers with step-by-step guidelines in building an overall highly-available system with DB2 and SAP. There’s an intro, and resource page, which contains links to related whitepapers and websites. Or you can go directly to the PDF that describes the integration of DB2 Universal Database, SAP R/3 Enterprise 4.70, and Sun Cluster 3.1 on the Solaris 9 environment.
I am looking forward to the 64 bit version of the Firebird database. I really like this database for being small, requiring almost no maintanance, supporting sql 92 and being able to run it on multiple platforms.
from the main page on http://www.firebirdsql.org
“I’ve been hired by IBPhoenix to produce a 64 bit, SMP-friendly reference port for Firebird. The formal deliverable will be for 64bit Solaris Sparc, although I plan to produce AMD64/Opteron versions for WinXP and Linux on the way. I’m calling it Project Vulcan (I wanted to call it IBAlbuquerque, but Mozilla is already using the name).”
“The requirement is for a thread-safe, embeddable, 64 bit versions capable of 3X performance on a four processor system (or run out of disk bandwidth trying) in a three month period. The resulting code will be released under the standard IDPL.”
I’m calling it Project Vulcan (I wanted to call it IBAlbuquerque, but Mozilla is already using the name).
Anyone else find this quote funny, since this didn’t stop the Mozilla project from code naming their next generation version of Navigator “Firebird”
Looks like a great project, but unfortunately it seems very underused. Anyone know any good reasons why MySQL is usually used instead?
I’m calling it Project Vulcan (I wanted to call it IBAlbuquerque, but Mozilla is already using the name).
Anyone else find this quote funny, since this didn’t stop the Mozilla project from code naming their next generation version of Navigator “Firebird”
Looks like a great project, but unfortunately it seems very underused. Anyone know any good reasons why MySQL is usually used instead?
That comment from Jim is supposed to be a joke, of course.
MySQL is usually used because it’s more well known especially in the open source world (it’s been available freely since, what, early 1990’s? or perhaps even earlier than that). While Interbase is a commercial product up until 2000 when Borland decided to open source it (and later balked and reclosed the source).
AFAIK there’s still no updated Firebird binding for PHP, Ruby, Perl, all these languages are commonly used in the open source arena.
Also, only an iota of hosting companies offers Firebird since FB 1.x doesn’t yet have proper security mechanism. Almost 100% hosting companies offer MySQL.
So in essence, FB is a new open source project. It’s maturing though. I believe it will be a serious threat to MySQL in the coming years. MySQL still has a _lot_ of features to catch up (subselect, stored procedure, 2-phase commit, triggers, FK for MyISAM, etc etc).
AFAIK there’s still no updated Firebird binding for PHP, Ruby, Perl, all these languages are commonly used in the open source arena.
We use Firebird every day with PHP. And the security mechanism is IMHO better and more dependable then MySQL’s. But it’ true that finding Firebird/Interbase hosting isn’t easy.
MySQL still has a _lot_ of features to catch up (subselect, stored procedure, 2-phase commit, triggers, FK for MyISAM, etc etc).
This might be one of the reason of MySQL’s success, as the lack of these features make it fast and simple to understand.