Re: MVCC and all that...

Hi

> Final thoughts on this: firebird (fmrly interbase) did not achieve the
> level of success in the market that postgres, even though they may have
> been similarly positioned. My take: that disparity in success has more to
> do with postgres having a more open development model, stronger community,
> and (especially) timing; postgres was pretty well established in the open
> source world when Borland open sourced it around the year 2000. Firebird
> had (and has) some neat stuff, in particular a nice embedding option and
> strong windows support, but the market was already pretty crowded at that
> time.
>

Still around 2005 Firebird was more popular than Postgres (in the Czech
Republic). I think after this time, the Firebird had not some wave of
popularity (and Postgres did - RoR, PostGIS, ora2pg, json, ...), and it was
too joined with windows desktop and Delphi. I have not any idea about
current situation, and current performance of Firebird, but 15 years ago
(Firebird 2.x), Postgres was better for web applications running on Linux
server with more than thousands users. I did some benchmarks at 2005, and
Firebird was really fast on Windows, and slower on Linux (slower than
Postgres).

> merlin
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