Content not direct related to FB, but interesting reading.
Looks like Oracle decided to charge money for those who wants to use InnoDB with MySQL. InnoDB offers features like transaction control, not found in the “classic” version of MySQL. Read more here and here.
Need Transactions, Stored Procedures, Triggers, etc. and don’t wanna to pay? GO FIREBIRD!
Update: As pointed by some of our readers, InnoDB is still offered for free in the MySQL “Community” edition.
By default, the transactions are IBASE_WAIT, so it waits until the record is no longer edited. You have to start a transaction with the IBASE_NOWAIT option to get an immediate response in a deadlock situation.
One example is a php application waiting for desktop app (administration tool) to finish the transaction
When I try to update a record that’s edited in a desktop app or IBexpert, and there is a deadlock, ibase_execute just hangs, does not return any value nor raises an exception.
Well now i noticed that there is a contest so here Firebird is mentioned and enters in the top 5 databases on Linux (Thanks to the Linux Journal readers)
Here is my guide to install Firebird from official tar.gz archive
Carlos wrote on firebird-php group : I’ve developed a stable version of a Firebird driver for the PHP Codeigniter Framework . Good feedback has been received from the Codeigniter community so far, and hope this could be useful for more developers working with PHP and Firebird.The sources are available at bitbucket here and any issues can be reported here
or at my blog here and for the English readers …
Thanx, live long and prosper…
Carlos García Trujillo
ps: seems that the driver is quite popular in such a small timeframe
I am happy that my driver for # firebird # codeigniter already are used by people from around the world in so little time:)
Now i have the clean build results and seems that clang++ is faster in one benchmark that i have tested Soon i will add more and test clang++ build with other benchmarks also some graphs will be added to the dry results 🙂
If you want to follow the clang++ build saga here is the tag on my blog
Some people doesn’t know, but anyone registered in the Firebird Tracker (registration is open, quick and free) can ask for improvements, report bugs, or vote in some existing tickets to raise their “priority”.
It is true that a high ranked ticket may never be implemented/solved. It is also true that the FB developers are free to implement what they want, without following any specific order or wishes. In fact, a ticket can be left untouched for a long time, if none of the developers feel inclined to work on that issue. But it is also true that having the users community voting for items, may sign to the Core Team developers with a direction to follow.
Here is a list of the top 10 ranked tickets at the moment:
Note that the top 10 issues are not bugs (the FB Core Team is a very efficient bug killer 😉 ), but enhancements/improvements to Firebird.
It seems that 775 and 657 are expected to be solved in Firebird 3. Core 773 and 2530 are related to the Firebird wire protocol.
Sadly, the top voted item (2530) is still unassigned. If you ever tried to use Firebird over the Internet and felt it is too slow, this is the issue you need to vote 😉 This improvement requires a new wire protocol, and changes to the API that would break the currently third-party access components. So, not easy task, but I hope to see it implemented in the future.
Here is the announcement on Codeigniter Forums
I have developed a FirebirdDB driver for Codeigniter 2.0
you can get it at BitBucket here
Code Igniter seems to be a cool PHP framework
CodeIgniter is most often noted for its speed when compared to other PHP frameworks. In a critical take on PHP frameworks in general, PHP creator Rasmus Lerdorf spoke at frOSCon in August 2008, noting that he liked CodeIgniter “because it is faster, lighter and the least like a framework”.
It’s hard to translate the sentence but the main idea is in Autumn you get all the rewards for a full year work (if you work in agriculture)
The article is in Romanian and is on one of the best portals for Free Software (Translated Be Free)
You can try reading using the google translate.
Here is the description of rubinius:
Rubinius is an implementation of the Ruby programming language.
The Rubinius bytecode virtual machine is written in C++, incorporating LLVM to compile bytecode to machine code at runtime. The bytecode compiler and vast majority of the core classes are written in pure Ruby.
Here are the rbx experiments done by Brent Rowland
fb now builds fine but won’t load due to missing rb_ary_freeze and rb_struct_new. #rbx
http://twitter.com/#!/brentrowland/status/27771719659
And yes the Linux tests for classic Ruby VM are all ok
Linux testing of the latest fb code went well. 32- and 64-bit Rubies
