[MUD-Dev] Re: The total DBMS approach

[Ian Macintosh]

From: Daniel.Harman at barclayscapital.com

> Having said that if it meets your needs it might be a very good
> solution as MS SQL server is becoming a credible performer these
> days for small to medium apps.

Can I strongly recommend InterBase or FireBird.  I've used these
systems in commercial large scale systems for the last 6 years.  It
performs superbly.  And you can store graphics directly in the
database as well using BLOB's (Binary Large Objects).

Here you can read a rather old article, but still very relevant,
about the InterBase architechture:

  http://www.dbmsmag.com/9607d17.html

And the best thing is that InterBase is now opensource
(Borland/Inprise stuffed around a bit after going open source, which
has caused the IB communitity to head off on it's own, hence
Firebird), so it's $free.

Firebird can be accessed at:

  http://firebird.sourceforge.net/

You can download the InterBase flavour (original open source release
from Inprise's web site if you want).

Here's the top two paragraphs about FireBird from the sourceforge
URL.  Note that it runs on Linux, as well as *every* 32 bit version
of Windows in current use (That's Win95, 98, 98 SE, ME, NT 3.51, NT
4.0, Win2K and WinXP), as well as a large number of other popular
Unix platforms.

---
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.

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.
---

A final URL where there are some good links re InterBase/FireBird
is:

  http://www.cvalde.com/

I trust that expands your options.

Regards,

Ian.



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