At 6/23/2003 11:20 AM (Monday), Wilfried Atgé wrote:

>we are about too choose a database and we are hesitating between
>MySQL and FireBird...
>
>We are building a Ticketing solution working in
>a pseudo peer2peer mode....
>
>Please post your arguments ...

I've found many who prefer Firebird do not feel the need to argue on its
behalf. We prefer to let it speak for itself. That said, I will contradict
myself and speak on the issue. ;)

The popularity of both MySQL and Firebird speaks to the fact that both are
viable alternatives in the general sense. The discriminating factors are in
the details.

Here in this forum you will find people who especially like Firebird's
reliability, performance over a wide range of usage, flexibility in the
usage of stored procedures and triggers, low administrative overhead, small
footprint for the contained power, and theory of operation as evidenced in
the multi-generational architecture.

Personally, being familiar with Firebird and happy with it, I find the only
advantages of MySQL are non-technical: It is already well integrated into
many production environments and many people are already familiar with it.

It would help if you told us more about what YOUR areas of concern are and
what YOUR requirements are so we can speak to them directly. What have you
already discovered that makes you like one or the other? What are you
concerned about with one or the other?