All,

I will be making a presentation on Interbase 6.0 and Open-Source SQL
DBMS at next week's Toronto Delphi Users Group meeting.

As such I'm in the process of developing some comparison notes,
regarding the direct competitors to IB (most noteably mySQL and
PostgreSQL) and would appreciate some input from the community.

To that end, I would like to use the accumulated knowledge to:

- Identify other open-source SQL DBMS which you consider to be
real competitors to IB (not a simple list from the open-source.org web
site)
- Outline the key differences which distinguish between these
products and IB

Accordingly, if you know of other open-source products, please provide
their web site URL.

Additionally, while I am navigating through the loads of information on
the respective web sites, I would appreciate of direct feedback from
those of you who have had direct experience with the other products (or
have done some recent product comparisons). I'm looking for is both the
good and the bad, as the products compare with IB.

In this manner, I hope to present as accurate a picture as possible --
my intention is to be as fair as possible.


Sean

PS. Paul and Ann, I just went up to the mySQL web site and used
their product comparison pages. To my mind, their are a number of
factual errors related to IB capabilities, in some cases they seem
glaring. Thought you should know. (I'd try to push from some
corrections [they say they will correct error if prompted], myself, but
don't feel knowledeable enough to put forward an informed case)