On Wed, 2005-05-04 at 13:48, Benjamin Smith wrote:
> As a long-time user of Postgres, (First started using it at 7.0) I'm reading
> recently that Firebird has been taking off as a database.
>
> Perhaps this is not the best place to ask this, but is there any compelling
> advantage to using Firebird over Postgres? We have a large database (almost
> 100 tables of highly normalized data) heavily loaded with foreign keys and
> other constraints, and our application makes heavy use of transactions.
>
> I say this as my company's growth has been exponential, showing no sign of
> letting up soon, and I'm reviewing clustering and replication technologies so
> that we can continue to scale as nicely as we have to date with our single
> server. (now with a load avg around .30 typically)
With some of the changes Tom recently made in the code in CVS,
PostgreSQL now looks capable of scaling to >4 CPUS (somewhere between 8
and 12 is where things start to drop off suddenly) while for firebird,
handling >1 CPU is a relatively recent development.
I'd say try them both, benchmark them, and see what you think. But keep
in mind that you really need to use a 4+ CPU machine to get a feel for
the scalability of both in a large server environment.