| PackageDescription | Firebird embedded client/server library
Firebird is a relational database offering many ANSI SQL-99 features that
runs on Linux, Windows, and a variety of Unix platforms. Firebird offers
excellent concurrency, high performance, and powerful language support
for stored procedures and triggers. It has been used on production systems
under a variety of names since 1981.
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This package containst libfbembed2 - the embedded client/server library for
Firebird.
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It can work with remote Firebird servers (either super-server or classic) via
TCP connections, in the same way libfbclient does.
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Contrary to libfbclient, libfbembed is not thread-safe.
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When working with local database libfbembed works directly with the database
file without the need of a separate server process. It needs a separate lock
manager -- fb_lock_mgr -- which is in firebird2.0-classic package.
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If you are in doubt, you most probably need libfbclient2, instead of this
package. |