Thanks to several of the participantsof the 21st Firebird Developers Day (FDD), significant improvements have been made to blob traffic performance, especially in high-latency network environments. These enhancements were implemented by Vlad Khorsun in two phases.
The first phase, already released in Firebird 5.02, delivered remarkable performance gains of up to 49%!
The second phase, delivering up to 97% gains, was originally scheduled for Firebird 6, but it is coming much sooner, in the upcoming Firebird 5.03!
And you will not need to pay anything extra for this, since Firebird is 100% free!
Upscene Productions is proud to announce the availability of a free feature limited version of Database Workbench, the Lite Edition, for personal non-commercial use. Download it here. There’s a version for Firebird and a version for MySQL.
For details on the feature differences between editions, see this feature matrix.
“Database Workbench is used by thousands of developers around the world, we’re making it available to hobbyists too”, says Martijn Tonies, founder of Upscene Productions. “Everyone can now use the free Lite Edition for personal non-commercial use.”
Database Workbench Basic and up support MySQL, MariaDB, Firebird, Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, NexusDB, SQLite and InterBase, comes in multiple editions and is licensed based on selectable modules.
It includes tools for database design, database maintenance, testing, data transfer, data import & export, database migration, database compare and numerous other tools.
About Database Workbench Database Workbench is a database developer tool, over 20 years in the making and is being used by thousands of developers across the globe who have come to rely on it every day. From database design, implementation, to testing and debugging, it will aid you in your daily database work.
About Upscene Productions Based in The Netherlands, Europe, this small but dedicated company has been providing database developers with useful tools for over 20 years. Slowly expanding the product portfolio and gaining recognition amongst InterBase and Firebird database developers, they now offer tools for a whole range of database systems, including Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server.
MWA Software is pleased to announce that the ibx4lazarus package has been successfully rehosted on GitHub. The svn repository has been decommissioned and is no longer available for use. Please go to https://github.com/MWASoftware for all of our software packages.
The move to GitHub has also allowed the package split of ibx4lazarus into three separate packages.
The Firebird Pascal API (fbintf)
The ibcontrols package.
The ibx4lazarus package
fbintf and ibcontrols are dependencies for ibx4lazarus itself and must be installed before ibx4lazarus itself.
In future, please report all issues that apply to any of these packages using the GitHub issues feature.
