Roberto:
First of all this is a devel list, not a support one.
Second, Firebird CAN be compared against "industrial strength databases" and
WIN depending on the customer's environment (application type, concurrent,
users, available money for licenses, money for hire a DBA, etc.).
I use it a lot in installations from 1 to 50 users in very (and some times
old) moderated hardware (ej: P500 with 128MB RAM) with very good results.
For who post the initial question:
There is a document called "Borland® InterBase® and Microsoft® SQL Server:
A Technical Comparison", search it at Borland's site (www.borland.com).
Isn't Firebird but is alike (both haves - IB and FB - the same roots).
Regards.
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[mailto:firebird-devel-***@lists.sourceforge.net] En nombre de Roberto
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Enviado el: Lunes, 11 de Abril de 2005 07:17 a.m.
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Asunto: R: [Firebird-devel] Firebird vs. MS SQL Server: Performance
Comparison
Hi,
My imho, firebird is FANTASTIC for average use, but we have to wait Vulcan
to try reach MSSQL.
I have many installations of SQL2000 Enterprise on clusters of 4way xeon
nodes, everyone with 8 or 16GBytes RAM and tons of concurrent users (one
company has 500 concurrent users).
Actual firebird engine can't manage two processors at time, and have old and
poor ram cache technique.
Figure out you can't compare Firebird with industrial strenght databases as
mssql, oracle, db2, etc.
Vulcan will bring hopefully this industrial strenght quality to the base
engine, so you will have the best opensource database of the IT planet.
Btw. Dear developers, what is the status of Vulcan?
THANK YOU
Roberto
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Inviato: giovedì 7 aprile 2005 23.42
A: firebird-***@lists.sourceforge.net
Oggetto: [Firebird-devel] Firebird vs. MS SQL Server: Performance Comparison
Hello,
Sorry, I couldn't find a more appropriate forum to ask my question -
hopefully it would be easy for the developers to answer.
Does anybody has a solid performance comparison data on Firebird vs. MS SQL
Server? Say, 1.5 vs 2000?
There are MS-centric people in our organizations who claim that MS SQL
Server is far more superior, especially in raw database operations speed,
which I very much doubt. However, I couldn't find any data to support my
doubts (the same applies to my opponents).
Can you help me to defend Firebird? :)
Thank you,
D.P.
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