Mar 15
few DLLs alongside your EXE and you're good to go). And, without any
changes to the applications, it scales to 10 GB databases (largest I
tried myself, reportedly, there are much larger ones out there). Imagine a world where DBMS download is a few megabytes and install is
a few seconds... Well, do not dream, try Firebird and see it for yourself. Once you get
used to that, other DBMS will look like bloatware.
10 Years of Firebird DBMS
I have been using it since 2002. It's rock-solid, small-footprint,
lean and mean database. And it's completely free. No dual-licensing
crap like MySQL, no crippleware like Microsoft or Oracle Express
editions.
few DLLs alongside your EXE and you're good to go). And, without any
changes to the applications, it scales to 10 GB databases (largest I
tried myself, reportedly, there are much larger ones out there). Imagine a world where DBMS download is a few megabytes and install is
a few seconds... Well, do not dream, try Firebird and see it for yourself. Once you get
used to that, other DBMS will look like bloatware.
Comments (3)
Mar 17, 2010
Gregorio Espadas said...
I'm gonna try it. Thanks for the tip.
Mar 18, 2010
scottyang said...
We have been using Firebird at work for 9.5 years now. Unfortunately the it would be replaced by MSSQL Server later this year. Sad.
Mar 18, 2010
Milan Babuškov said...
Scott, that is really sad. I remember replacing many installations of MS SQL 2000 to Firebird for my clients, so I wonder what is the reason to do the migration the other way. FB has most of the features of MS SQL, is completely free. Even support for .Net has been great so far. I can hardly see a reason to switch unless someone is paying you to do it perhaps.
