Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on December 23, 2004 02:38 AM
> Every developer in need of a database owes it to themself to consider Firebird. IBM gave me multiple > copies of DB2 when I bought some other IBM software. I still have those unused licenses, becase > DB2 does not offer me any more than Firebird (and would be a damn sight harder to install, use and > maintain).
I'd love a free database that offers me everything that Oracle & DB2 have. Freebird is definitely easier to manage than either of those two. It just can't handle the performance demands of either on the large end.
When it can resolve queries that scan 100 gbytes of data on a five-year-old machine in 1-3 seconds without using an index I'll check it out.
In the meanwhile, there are still a ton of smaller apps that could use it well I'm sure.
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Re:Firebird Evaluation
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on December 23, 2004 02:38 AM> copies of DB2 when I bought some other IBM software. I still have those unused licenses, becase
> DB2 does not offer me any more than Firebird (and would be a damn sight harder to install, use and
> maintain).
I'd love a free database that offers me everything that Oracle & DB2 have. Freebird is definitely easier to manage than either of those two. It just can't handle the performance demands of either on the large end.
When it can resolve queries that scan 100 gbytes of data on a five-year-old machine in 1-3 seconds without using an index I'll check it out.
In the meanwhile, there are still a ton of smaller apps that could use it well I'm sure.
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