Firebird related news
Oracle Juices Up Berkeley DB – Oracle spruced up one of its recently acquired embeddable databases, Berkeley DB, releasing on Sept. 27 Version 4.5 with multi-version concurrency control and more.
This is old news for Firebird/InterBase users. MGA (or Versioning) architecture, used in FB/IB, was born with Snapshot isolation for transactions.
Marina won the contest and she is now in Bali .There are many other journal/blog entries on the site (nice pictures too)
ps: we hope we contributed to her winning . Who wants to go next ? 😉
Posted by: “maximshiryaev” MaximShiryaev.at.mail.ru
Date: Wed Sep 27, 2006 4:24 am (PDT)
Hello.
Some time ago I’ve been evaluating Alfresco – an opensource CMS. Its stack is this: MySQL -> Hibernate -> SpringFramework -> tomcat -> Web interface.
Since all other systems in our company use Firebird as a database back-end I’ve decided to move Alfresco to Firebird.
Here are the steps:
Related to the Firebird name and Firefox trademark defending (You will spot firebird mentioned in the second link)
I wrote a simple test to test locking problem on other databases we use (DB2 AS400, DB2 9.1, PostgreSQL, Oracle 10g, Firebird and MS SQL Server 2005).
For those who would like to promote the conference in their sites, you can use the banner available at www.firebirdnews.org/imgs/fbconf2006.jpg
The appliance is quite small a few Megs , i will ask how they
managed to do it soo small 🙂
http://www.vmware.com/vmtn/appliances/directory/cat/50
I like their ideea of pictorial , maybe we should do an firebird
appliance screencast (ubuntu/mandriva)
Here is the article in question
http://virtualappliances.org/Using_Database_Virtual_Appliances/Configuring_VirtualAppliance_PostgreSQL_Server.html
The “Get to know Firebird in 2 minutes” paper, now available in 11 languages, reached recently tha mark of 100,000 downloads! You can find the paper here.
Would you find the ability to run Subtext off of another database such as MySql or Firebird very important?
Firebird has a limitation for table names length
But only at creation time !
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