At 2:47 PM +0200 5/12/05, Martijn Tonies wrote:

> > Sqlite Versus Firebird - Firebird is open source, cross platform,
>embeddable, has wrappers for many language. Firebird is a full
>> featured database and has a footprint of 2-3 MByte. A good choice when
>SQLite is too lite. Firebird can be used free of charge even
>> for closed source projects.
>
>Well, that's a nice thing to say :-)
>
>I remember last year I took a quick look at SQLite... but indeed,
>it was _very_ lite.
>
>And silly.
>
>With regards,
>
>Martijn Tonies

Yes, it is _very_ lite.
But not silly at all.

If you need a quick single-user, low-volume database that allows SQL
queries vs. having to deal with dbase-style tables AND you need it
cross platform (Windows, Linux, Mac), SQLite is a wonderful solution.
SQLite also stores all tables in a single file which we find to be a
big advantage when deploying/maintaining databases.

Firebird cannot yet address precisely the same problem space since
the embedded version is not currently available outside of Windows
(or at least I know it is not available on the Mac).

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