>From: "Doug Chamberlin" <chamberlin.doug@...>
>To: Firebird-general@yahoogroups.com
>Sent: Friday, February 22, 2013 12:16:45 PM
>Subject: Re: [Firebird-general] Can someone using firebird share why use this database instead of any other?

>On 2/22/13 12:10 PM, Ann Harrison wrote:
>
> 1) Free and open source multi-user transactional database
> 2) Can be distributed with commercial applications
> 3) Small footprint and low administration cost
> 4) Windows friendly

>5) Friendly and helpful support community
>6) Client and server implemented on many popular platforms

7) Able to run embedded as well as separate server.
(thus easy to bundle with applications).
8) Efficiently handles large insertions and deletions (e.g. 1,000,000 record deletions).
9) Versioning means writers do not block readers.


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