Re: Firebird vrs Postgresql

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dann Corbit" <DCorbit@connx.com>
To: "Erick Dennis" <edennis@rootshell.be>; <pgsql-general@postgresql.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2003 11:04 PM
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Firebird vrs Postgresql

-----Original Message-----
From: Erick Dennis [mailto:edennis@rootshell.be]
Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2003 1:27 PM
To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Subject: [GENERAL] Firebird vrs Postgresql

Hello,

had Somebody compared Postgresql vrs Firebird? What is the main
diferent between this DBs? performance? support? flexibility?.

Biggest similarity:
Open source

Biggest difference:
License type (Firebird is commercial)

Not quite, it is published under "Interbase Public License", and You do not
need to pay anything to use it.

I was playing a little with it, tried it on Linux and Windows. It was
the time when it was under heavy development, but I remember that I liked
it's client interface. There were also a whole bunch of useful tools like
IBObjects, IBAcess etc. So if You are Delphi or Borland C++ programmer,
You'll hardly find better interfaces and better tools for any other DB
(IBObjects has very complex and very good data-aware components).

I find PostgreSQL more robust, secure and what is most important -
flexible. You can create your own types, casts, conversions, languages etc.
For example check for "pgbash" package and You'll se what I mean (it is bash
with direct support for executing SQL commands for PostgreSQL)
What I like with postgres is that You do not need commercial support for it:
You will always get answer on Your questions, all You need to do is ask.

Regards !