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Firebird 2.5 vs. Firebird 2.1 speed comparison under .NET provider’s unit tests
Recently I was running NUnit tests we’re using for .NET provider and I got an idea to compare different Firebird versions. Read more.
#Ruby news : Firebird driver compilable on #rbx (rubinius) and full test passes on Linux (for the classic Ruby VM)
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
Firebird 3.0 #Debian Preliminary packaging is available in #Experimental
This package is meant to enter experimental, due to the high pace of upstream
development. Its goal is to provide easy testing of the new features of
Firebird and to have early exposure of the packaging helping to discover any
problems.
firebird3.0 is the third group of packages for Firebird. Squeeze is going to
release with firebird2.1 and firebird2.5. The plan for wheezy is to drop
firebird2.1 and add firebird3.0, if that has proven stable by the time wheezy
approaches releasable state.
Preliminary packagiing is available at
http://git.debian.org/?p=pkg-firebird/3.0.git;a=summary
#Lua Firebird Driver : fbclient 0.5.0 is released
Cosmin Apreutesei wrote to to Lua, firebird-tools, LuaRocks mailing lists :
Firebird’s Lua binding v0.5.0 is out!
Quick changelog:
- improved automated testing suite:
- now testing against all 2.0-2.5 firebird and fbembed releases to date on win32 and linux32 (linux64 coming with the next version of alien)
- server binary bundles including start/stop scripts are now available for download making it trivial to setup a testing environment
- improved st:run()/st:fetch() handling based on statement type
- added support for SQL_NULL type (fb 2.5+)
- added at:sqlcode(), at:sqlstate(), at:sqlerrors(), at:errors(),at:full_status()
- added at:start_transaction()
- added st:row()
- bug fixing, refactoring and documentation updates
Rockspeck and zip package here: http://code.google.com/p/fbclient/source/browse/
The next version will include a reflection module for metadata export
and schema comparison and synchronization between two databases.
Feedback welcome!
Enjoy!
PS: Could someone please update the rockspec in the LR repo, thanks!
#Python 2.7 version of the driver for #Windows #x86-32 and #x64 is released
here are the download links :
http://sourceforge.net/projects/firebird/files/firebird-python/kinterbasdb%203.3/kinterbasdb-3.3.0.win32-py2.7.msi/download
Python 2.7 was released on July 3rd, 2010.
Python 2.7 is scheduled to be the last major version in the 2.x series before it moves into an extended maintenance period. This release contains many of the features that were first released in Python 3.1
Development of the official FB ODBC driver
From Firebird Foundation blog:
We’re pleased to announce that Alexander Potapchenko has officially accepted the Foundation’s proposal to resume development of the ODBC driver. Work has begun on the completion of the previously stalled V2.0 “RC2” release.
#noSQL #MongoDB (1296 secs) is MUCH slower than Firebird (125 secs)
Something must be right for Firebird SQL
MongoDB (1296 secs) is MUCH slower than Firebird (125 secs) at just returning id’s from 2 million records. This can’t be right.
via twitter
http://twitter.com/#!/brentrowland/status/27460544811
Webinar: Firebird Performance Testing
A new webinar with Dmitry Yemanov and Alexey Kovyazin will discuss “Firebird Performance Testing”. Join them at October 19 2010 at 13.00 GMT, using the following link: http://bit.ly/9KkqMj