An observation: the one recent study that pumped up Firebird seemed to come out of nowhere, and its findings have yet to be corroborated elsewhere. While as others have noted, Firebird is a fine product (and has a longer history on the Windows platform), I think a little skepticism as to its market penetration and community size is warranted. Could be that the study was oversampling legacy Interbase users, for example.
Benjamin Smith wrote:
As a long-time user of Postgres, (First started using it at 7.0) I'm reading recently that Firebird has been taking off as a database.
Perhaps this is not the best place to ask this, but is there any compelling advantage to using Firebird over Postgres? We have a large database (almost 100 tables of highly normalized data) heavily loaded with foreign keys and other constraints, and our application makes heavy use of transactions.
I say this as my company's growth has been exponential, showing no sign of letting up soon, and I'm reviewing clustering and replication technologies so that we can continue to scale as nicely as we have to date with our single server. (now with a load avg around .30 typically)
-Ben
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