From: Martijn Tonies
Date: December 15 2003 1:06pm
Subject: Re: MySQL or MaxDB or PostgreSQL or Interbase/Firebird or ?
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Hi,

> > So far, it seems that MySQL, MaxDB, PostgreSQL, and Interbase/Firebird
are
> > possible candidates.
> >
> > Does anyone know why we should or should not use any of these?  Does
anyone
> > know of other possibilities?
>
> 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"?

> 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...


What exactly are you missing in Firebird?

With regards,

Martijn Tonies
Database Workbench - developer tool for InterBase, Firebird, MySQL & MS SQL
Server.
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