Firebird News

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A nice white paper by Roman Rokytskyy that describes the multi version concurrency control system used in Firebird in comparison to IBM DB2 and Oracle 9i.

I found this quote on the Hibernate Tuning blog: [Ed:They linked to the Roman’s Page , Scroll down to “db2 and friends”]

In fact glaring are the benchmarks published by MySQL. I’d put to you that MVCC support is probably more important than a lot of other concerns in transactional computing (as opposed to batch processing and OLTAP type stuff)

There are to different backup Systems in Firebird:

nBackup included in Firebird 2.0 an up

and gBak included in Firebird since humm, good old Borland days back in 199x up to the (still in beta) Firebird 2.0.

When you dont want to struggle with the commandline switches of gbak, you can use the (very useful) GUI-Frontend for gbak developed and provided for free by Talat Dogan: FIBS Firebird-Interbase Backup Scheduler

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