| From: | "Jim C(dot) Nasby" <decibel(at)decibel(dot)org> |
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| To: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
| Cc: | lists(at)benjamindsmith(dot)com, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Postgres vs Firebird? |
| Date: | 2005-05-06 06:01:43 |
| Message-ID: | 20050506060143.GF88920@decibel.org |
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On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 12:08:47PM -0700, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> Firebird is a nice database but I don't think it can scale as well as
> PostgreSQL. IIRC they just added support for SMP. Also, although their
> community is very active I do not believe it is as large nor does it
> have the commercial backing like PostgreSQL.
Support it in what way? Do they allow for parallel query execution?
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