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Re: [stellation-res] Some database questions, with major performance impact
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On Sun, 2002-08-11 at 15:40, Dave Shields wrote:
I just used Google to locate Firebird, and their site mentions they
use the InterBase Public License v1.0, which is the same license under
which Inprise released their code.. Unfortunately, I don't find this
license in the list of OSI approved licenses available at
http://www.opensource.org.
dave
Hi,
Probably none sent the license to OSI for approval. I use Firebird in a commercial project that manages $5.000.000 US dollars per year and my lawyer said it would be fine to release a billing system depending on that license.
Going further, one of my clients has more than 4 million records in a Firebird 1.0 database (started as Interbase 4.0 for linux 3 years ago) and never had a problem. Interbase used to advertise the database as "embed, deploy, relax" and that's true.
I wouldn't touch a Borland backed Interbase again. I will keep using Firebird while I can. Borland didn't understand the meaning of "open source" when releasing Interbase and probably never will.
Regarding the JDBC driver, there are 2 options. Borland released a Type 3 driver called Interclient that works OK and there is also a JCA adapter with support for JDBC written as a Type 4 driver by David Jenks. This Type 4 driver is supported by a nice group at Firebird.org
I asked for help to port Stellation to Firebird. I received a couple of encouraging messages, but didn't have the time to start the port. Probably I could start doing it next week after I finish some heavy work.
Currently Firebird supports transactions, VARCHAR() of more than 4000 characters and several types of BLOBs. I believe the obstacles that started this thread don't apply to either Firebird nor Interbase.
Best,
Rodolfo
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