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FB Internals documentation

October 28, 2010 Cantu Leave a comment

Norman Dunbar is working in a new documentation describing some of the Firebird internals aspects, like the database file structure, compression used on records, etc.

The document is not finished, but already contains lots of good information.

You can download the currently version at:

http://www.firebirdsql.org/manual/fb-internals.html
http://www.firebirdsql.org/pdfmanual/Firebird-Internals.pdf

Video about SuperServer x SuperClassic

October 28, 2010 Cantu Leave a comment

Thomas Steinmaurer posted in his blog a video showing the differences between Firebird 2.5 SS and CS regarding the use of multiple cores. Watch it now.

Firebird 2.5 is compiling successfully with Clang++ and production tests

October 25, 2010 mariuz Leave a comment

The good news is that tests are running ok and soon i will show the numbers vs the g++ ones
Here are the tips on howto compile it on Linux (Debian/Ubuntu…)

FB Performance Webinar recording available

October 19, 2010 Cantu Leave a comment

Firebird.performance.testing

View more presentations from Mind TheFirebird.

#Lua Firebird Driver : fbclient 0.5.0 is released

October 17, 2010 mariuz Leave a comment

Cosmin Apreutesei wrote to to Lua, firebird-tools, LuaRocks mailing lists :

Good news everyone,

Firebird’s Lua binding v0.5.0 is out!

Quick changelog:

improved automated testing suite:
now testing against all 2.0-2.5 firebird and fbembed releases to date on win32 and linux32 (linux64 coming with the next version of alien)
server binary bundles including start/stop scripts are now available for download making it trivial to setup a testing environment
improved st:run()/st:fetch() handling based on statement type
added support for SQL_NULL type (fb 2.5+)
added at:sqlcode(), at:sqlstate(), at:sqlerrors(), at:errors(),at:full_status()
added at:start_transaction()
added st:row()
bug fixing, refactoring and documentation updates

Rockspeck and zip package here: http://code.google.com/p/fbclient/source/browse/

The next version will include a reflection module for metadata export
and schema comparison and synchronization between two databases.

Feedback welcome!
Enjoy!

PS: Could someone please update the rockspec in the LR repo, thanks!

Firebird 2.5: The Real and The Only alternative to #MySQL

October 14, 2010 mariuz Leave a comment

The Firebird 2.5 article is in Italian language
And here is the translation (with highlights from Firebird 2.5 press release)

l progetto Firebird ha da poco annunciato il rilascio della versione 2.5 del suo database relazionale opensource.

Le novità di questa release sono abbastanza interessanti ma ovviamente gli sforzi maggiori sono stati fatti per migliorare l’affidabilità, le performance e la scalabilità del database. Philippe Makowski, presidente della fondazione non-profit Firebird Foundation ha dichiarato che il rilascio di Firebird 2.5 è un passo importante sia per il progetto stesso, visto che cade in questi giorni il suo decimo anni di vita, che per l’intero mondo opensource.

D’altronde, come dargli torto: la comunità sta cercando ormai da un bel po’ di tempo un degno sostituto di MySQL che, nonostante i proclami di Oracle, pare sempre più lontano dall’iniziale predisposizione all’opensource. “Molti nostri clienti utilizzano senza grossi problemi database Firebird che spaziano dai 200 ai 400GB”, ha dichiarato Stewart Sping, CTO della Watermark Software. “I miglioramenti delle performance di Firebird 2.5 permetteranno sicuramente di raggiungere risultati ancora più entusiasmanti”. Firebird 2.5 è disponibile sotto forma di pacchetti binari per piattaforme Windows e Linux a 32 e 64 bit. Maggiori informazioni e download sono disponibili su questa pagina