I am looking for some embedded databases. SQLite has some issues with the GUI. What about FireBird? How active is it's mailing list and forums? Does it follow all the rules of ANSI SQL? Is it suitable for production?
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Is Firebird still alive? Are you kidding? It is only few weeks since Firebird 2.5 has been launched. We use it in our commercial products both ways, as a client server and as an embedded solution. We found it stable, powerfull and SQL compliant. Comparing with MSSQL there are two significant advantages. 1) Firebird is free; 2) Firebird is cross-platform.
Andrei K.
2010-10-31 07:51:09
Which front-end you use? Is there any full feature-rich GUI to manage even a single file embedded db?
RPK
2010-10-31 12:17:44
If by "GUI" here you mean some utility for managing metadata, run queries, do database maintenance etc. then we use IBExpert. http://ibexpert.net/ibe/index.php?n=Main.IBExpert
Andrei K.
2010-10-31 12:53:07