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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
Which of the following databases are most used within your organization?
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Firebird is listed in the question “Which of the following databases have you used most often THIS YEAR?”.
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Firebird was selected to participate in this year Source Forge Community Choice Awards in three categories:
Click here to vote for Firebird, it is quick and easy!
The time for nominating Firebird for the Sourceforge Community Choice Awards has arrived! Firebird already won several categories in 2007, now let’s try to repeat it again! Click the button below and fill the nomination form. I suggest to nominate Firebird for the following categories:
Well maybe we will do beter with promotion but this year we won the #3 place in LinuxQuestions Database Of the Year Poll
Thank You to all Who Voted , Next Year target is to overcome Postgresql 🙂
You can show your support by voting your favorite Database in the “Database Of the Year category”
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http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/2008-linuxquestions.org-members-choice-awards-83/
I’m happy to announce that the nominees have been selected and the
polls for the 2008 LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Awards are now
open. Congratulations to everyone that was nominated.
Michael started again to work on the FlameRobin redesign, with multithreaded database access. Since FR 0.9.0 is using the wxAUI library for tabbed property pages He decided to use wxAUI for all of FR
A new poll is up so we get an idea whether the current FlameRobin UI is liked (or not so much) among the FR user base.
Which of the following databases have you used most often THIS YEAR?
The above question is in the newest Evans Data survey, about Open Source tools, and Firebird is one of the listed choices. You can vote now.