Firebird 2.5

Firebird is a relational database software with ANSI SQL database that runs on Windows platforms, Linux and UNIX. Firebird is a relational database offering many ANSI SQL standard features, and can run on Linux platforms, Windows and various UNIX platforms. Firebird offers concurrency features of a good, high-performance, and a complete language support for store procedures and triggers. This software has been used on production systems under various names since 1981.

Firebird Project is a commercial project independent of the programmer C and C + + (technical advisors and supporters of this project) to develop and improve a multi-platform relational database management system based on source code released by Inprise Corp (now known as Borland Software Corp) on July 25, 2000.

Firebird 2.5 to create a database with ODS 11.2, and has the ability to be able to read the database ODS previous versions, although the latest features will not appear on the database versions. The main purpose of Firebird 2.5 is to form the basis of a new threading architecture is almost universal in the model SuperServer, Classic and Embedded, using a low-level synchronization and thread safety in general.

Although SQL enhancement is not the main purpose of this release, for the first time, user management becomes accessible (accessible) via the SQL command CREATE / ALTER / DROP USER and syntax for ALTER VIEW and CREATE OR ALTER VIEW is implemented. Psql improvement include the introduction of the autonomous transaction and the ability to query other database via EXECUTE STATEMENT.

Firebird 2.5 also brings an increase in used engine (engine enhancement). Refactoring Firebird threading architecture takes advantage of the ability of the release of symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) from muliprocessor hardware. These enhancements deliver a significant effect on the scalability SuperServer.

In addition, new features and improvements in this release include: several administrative enhancements, even more additional SQL language and its increased functionality, data-handling enhancement, and also the addition of the API (API Addition). So for those of you who are looking for an RDBMS (Relational DataBase Management System) that are reliable, then the Firebird 2.5 is one of the candidates.

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