Subject Re: [Firebird-general] Re: RDBMS feature timelines
Author Fikret Hasovic
Hi all,


Can we finish this list?
If anyone have something to add, so we can
publish this?

p> Okay. Herewith version 2

>> System: Firebird (Interbase)
>>
>> Introduced 1983
>> Client/Server 1983
>> No table locks 1983
>> MVCC 1983
>> Hot backup 1983
>> Programmable 1990
>> Cluster 1983 (VAX)
>> Self-tuning 1983
>>
>> System: Oracle
>>
>> Introduced 1981
>> Client/Server 1985
>> No table locks 1988
>> MVCC 1998 (limited)
>> Hot backup 1988
>> Programmable 1992
>> Cluster 2001
>> Self-tuning 2004
>>
>> System: SQLServer (Sybase)
>>
>> Introduced 1987
>> Client/Server 1988
>> No table locks -
>> MVCC 2005 (if yukon ships this year)
>> Hot backup 1993?
>> Programmable 1992
>> Cluster -
>> Self-tuning -
>>
>> System: MySQL
>>
>> Introduced 1996
>> Client/Server 1996
>> No table locks 2000
>> MVCC -
>> Hot backup -
>> Programmable 2005 (in beta)
>> Cluster 2004
>> Self-tuning -
>>
>> System: DB2
>>
>> Introduced 1982
>> Client/Server 1991
>> No table locks 1996
>> MVCC -
>> Hot backup 2003
>> Programmable 1995
>> Cluster 1998
>> Self-tuning 2002



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