Firebird News

Vlad Khorsun wrote about the Shared page cache implementation in 3.0 :
After more than a year of development, testing, switching on another tasks and returning back i’m ready to commit shared page cache implementation into trunk.
I consider it stable enough to be committed into SVN. It runs some stability tests more than 10 hours for longest run and many shorter runs at different configurations.
Here i want to do overview of changes, what was tested, what was not, and what
is work in progress.

You can read more about Shared page cache in the Firebird 3.0 presentation
Update:Feature commited into trunk

Jiří Činčura Blogged about his impression on Amazon’s microinstance :

Few months ago I was playing with different VPS providers and I was also considering deploying the application to some “small instance” cloud. I came to Micro Instance of Amazon EC2. Part of the solution I was doing research for is Firebird database and because the pricing looks good, I tried to install Firebird (2.5 SuperClassic) on this instance.

From the about box :

TURBU is an RPG-building engine currently under development. It is being written by Mason Wheeler, and will be able to create and edit RPGs with a wide variety of customizable options, including importing existing project from RPG Maker 2000 and 2003.

And here is the blog post and the message With several advantages listed

I’ve added a bunch of new Event Builder editors, plus music-playing capabilities, but probably the biggest change is to the project database. I’m changing the storage mechanism from the old, built-in file format to a Firebird database.