[DUG] Why InterBase not FB

[Richard Vowles]

I'm going to prefix this with "unless you are Paul" but please have that
assumed from here on in :-)

No, I'm not planning on doing any promotion of FB - and this is
particularly important. FB and IB are _not_ the same database any
longer, they are not only incompatible at the file format layer, they
have forked in critical functionality as well. How FB limits the rows
coming back is different to IB for example, and there are many more
examples, especially at the API layer (admin management, transaction
management, SQL functionality, etc)

If you go with FB, you have almost blocked yourself off from IB as much
as if you had gone with another database. I use IB with my web sites,
the thought of having to move to FB would be more work than I would want
to have to do. Putting a layer between you and the database is something
I am doing now, but if I have to do stored procs, FB stored procs and IB
stored procs are becoming sufficiently different to make it an effort.

Richard


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-----Original Message-----
From: delphi-bounces at ns3.123.co.nz [mailto:delphi-bounces at ns3.123.co.nz]
On Behalf Of kurt
Sent: Thursday, 1 June 2006 10:40 p.m.
To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List
Subject: Re: [DUG] Why InterBase

Richard Vowles wrote:

> I'm now happy to have this discussion when I wouldn't have bothered 
> before. InterBase is a core product of DevCo going forward so I need 
> to know what are its selling points and what aren't. And I intend to 
> have an InterBase partner programme that rocks.

Doesn't seem it'd be too hard too find a market for it - IB is an ideal
size/price/performer for the current web-size dbs.
(if I were you I'd promote FB too, so's users can buy support contracts
for IB when they grow :)


Cheers, Kurt.