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Firebird adds new features with version 2.1Firebird adds new features with version 2.1Posted May 29, 2008 4:50 UTC (Thu) by jobinau (guest, #52296)In reply to: Firebird adds new features with version 2.1 by intgr Parent article: Firebird adds new features with version 2.1
>>Meanwhile MySQL and PostgreSQL are making all the headlines. yes they are making much noice. but still lagging. Mysql is still under development. far behind a matured RDBMS. Postgress is still stucked up in Processes instead of threads. but other than heavy on resources, Postgres is a OK. Firebird is real winner.
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Firebird adds new features with version 2.1 Posted May 29, 2008 12:09 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link] I suspect you don't know what you're talking about. Using processes instead of threads doesn't necessarily make you 'heavy on resources'. It doesn't necessarily indicate that you are 'stuck' in any way at all. It requires greater discipline than using threads, and the context switch time is slightly higher, making it an inappropriate technique for insane loads, but in every other way using processes is *preferable*. Think: what happens if a single MySQL server thread crashes. Who knows what state it corrupted first: best take the whole server down. If a PostgreSQL server crashes, the others are unaffected, their address spaces inviolate save for a strictly-defined shared memory region: they can generally carry on.
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