46 messages in com.mysql.lists.mysqlRe: MySQL or MaxDB or PostgreSQL or I...
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Subject:Re: MySQL or MaxDB or PostgreSQL or Interbase/Firebird or ?
From:Sven Köhler (skoe@upb.de)
Date:12/15/2003 06:26:26 AM
List:com.mysql.lists.mysql

I was very disappointed by Interbase/Firebird. It seemed to me like a MS-Access: a database-engine that works on regular files

What gave you that idea? Firebird (and InterBase of course) use a at least 1 file per database, but that's all. Can you define "regular files"?

My idea of Firebird is the following: There a library that can access a file and use it as a database.

that very much like using the MS-Jet-Engine which is the backend to MS-Access.

OK, there is a network-server component, but it really has nothing to do with an enterprise-DB.

There's a server side process waiting for incoming connections just like with MySQL, MS SQL Server, Oracle etc etc...

Well, the network-server seemed to me like an application that uses the library i mentioned above. It doesn't seem to me like a big application like MySql or MaxDB. In other words: Firebird seems to be light weight DBMS. MySQL and MaxDB have a multi-threaded kernel that maintains its own cache, coordinates locks, etc. I don't think that Firebird's architecture is like that.