| PackageDescription | FireBird Super w/ 32bit I/O - RDBMS based on InterBase 6.0 code
The "super" flavour uses separate thread to handle every connection.
It is has it's adventages (for ex. is usually faster), but also some
disadventages (is unable to use more than one CPU on SMP systems,
under some circumstances clients can crash all server).
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This package is compiled for 32bit I/O (Linux 2.2.X or older glibc)
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Firebird is a relational database offering many ANSI SQL-92 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 in production
systems, under a variety of names since 1981.
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Firebird is a commercially independent project of C and C++ programmers,
technical advisors and supporters developing and enhancing a multi-platform
relational database management system based on the source code released by
Inprise Corp (now known as Borland Software Corp) under the InterBase Public
License v.1.0 on 25 July, 2000. |