News from the Firebird developers.
From Tomneko (Tsutomu Hayashi)
I tested Firebird, MySQL and PostgreSQL with my DbBench on HP ML115G5.
This presentation was already done in japan. (
It’s now uploaded to google docs)
You can view odp presentation here also ppt version is here
It’s up to SlideShare too for thouse who like flash or want to embed it in the blogs.
http://www.slideshare.net/tomneko/firebird25-benchmarksenglish20091031
Tsutomu Hayashi did some benchmarks and here are the results with the time in seconds
Intel Core2Quad 9550 with 4G Memory Firebird Protocol: LocalConnection
All Firebird is defalt settings FB-2.1.2 is very slow, FB-2.5 is fastest.
DBcreation (Seconds – Lower is Better)
FirebirdSS-1.5.5 3007
FirebirdSS-2.1.2 1651
FirebirdSS-2.5Beta2 1289
TPC-R (Seconds – Lower is Better)
FirebirdSS-1.5.5 621
FirebirdSS-2.1.2 2748
FirebirdSS-2.5Beta2 526
Firebird does have official ports for debian kFreeBSD and maybe it’s easier to use FreeBSD kernel from an Debian/Ubuntu background (apt-get)
News via tuxradar
Upcoming release of Debian, codenamed Squeeze, will be available in a juicy new FreeBSD flavour alongside the regular Linux version. Well, Debian GNU/kFreeBSD has been around for a while, but now it will be an official part of the distro, combining the titanium-strength FreeBSD kernel with the GNU C library
What is left to be done on the porting front ? maybe fixing the building on avr, hurd and m68k (sh4 is already done) but these are not yet official debian ports.
Also alpha cpu support seems to be dropped from debian release archiectures so no porting effort is needed
I took one list from 2007 and you can compare where we are now
Already ported:
i386
amd64
mipsel
sparc
powerpc
kfreebsd-i386
kfreebsd-amd64
arm
ia64
mips
s390 = IBM/S390
superH (sh4)
Need to be ported:
alpha is dead
m68k
hurd
avr
hppa
ps:
So you can install firebird on the phone (maemo is arm debian linux) or on the mainframe linux (ibm s390)
We have another Firebird Port to the Renesas SuperH cpu (linux) by Nobuhiro Iwamatsu
Here is the patch that was added by Alex
Today we uploaded a new version “adhoc 20090925” of FreeAdhocUDF.
There are some bugfixes and 48 new functions (totally now more than 500).
This is a recommended update and the first (and only?) UDF-library with UTF-8 and UNICODE-FSS support.
For security reasons there is a new separate file-UDF-library FAUfile.
You can download it from ftp://ftp.FreeAdhocUDF.org/FreeAdhocUDF/
Documentation found at http://FreeAdhocUDF.org/index_eng.html
For better support there is a forum – direct URL http://FreeAdhocUDF.org/portal
For all kind of questions use eMail help@freeadhocudf.org
adhoc dataservice / Christoph Theuring
If you put into comment of column #PK_GEN#, then FirebirdClient will … read more.
Firebird Extension Library for Ruby added new releses 0.6.1 and there are many changes and bug fixes
Firebird is mentioned in OpenSUSE Weekly News
“I want to inform our users that thanks to the efforts of Philippe Makowski, we’ve got Firebird in openSUSE now. He took over the package we had in Build Service, rewrote spec file from scratch, fixed quite some errors and adjusted package in many ways. And as the result Firebird package was finally accepted yesterday (1st of September) into openSUSE Factory.
Good news for Firebird and OpenSuse users, Firebird package will be in official repository for new OpenSuse 11.2
For people wanting to test it, it is in the Factory repository
We should send a notice to distrowatch maintainer to add Firebird to the table of included packages for openSuse
http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=suse
It’s not yet released but you can see what bugs are squashed in the What’s new document
