>>"Ingres has a lot of features that my customers need. Firebird is not
>>able to give them those features for now. "
>>
>>means. Not ever having pushed the limits of Firebird, I don't know
>>much about its limitations (other than having read about people asking
>>for temporary tables and the ability to stop long-running queries). It
>>would be interesting to hear what people having experience with other
>>databases miss in Firebird.
>
>
> From a current evaluation project, some requirements missing in
> Firebird 1.5.2 come up. ;-)
>
> - Fine-granular multi-threading and SMP support
> - Support for different authentication protocols like Kerberos, ...
> - Full-Text search capabilities (I know, there are third-party
> solutions available, but usually people I know are asking for
> a built-in solution)
> - Clustering (Load Balancing, Hot-Standby)
> - Incremental Backup, Point-In-Time Recovery
> - Cross-Database-Queries
> - Gateways to other data sources (e.g. connecting to another
> DBMS within a stored procedure)
> - NUMERICs/DECIMALs with a precision up to 38
> - Monitoring and Profiling capabilities (to see what's going
> on in the database; running statements, transactions, ...)
> - and some more ...

Ah, yes, and: ;-)

- Increased max. index length (done in Firebird v2)
- Case-insensitive indexed search (case-insensitive indexes?)



Regards,
Thomas