Here's what I like (in order I think...or close to it)...
* free licensing for commercial deployment; I'm in business to make money
* Scalability
* RAD on Linux/Windows (especially using IBPP)
* great support; I've had only one question ever go unanswered.
* simple DB administration (especially using a front end like FlameRobin).
* live database back-ups (I think someone else said that).
* standard SQL language

The software I have written has to run on an embedded system with a 4G Compact Flash Drive (instead of a normal HD) or a multi-CPU, RAID server. Firebird installs easily and gets me running quickly.

I write almost exclusively in C++, and use PHP as the GUI to our suite of applications. IBPP allows me to generate DB API code in minutes. We have installed on WinXP/2003, Ubuntu, and SUSE.

In an environment like ours, MySQL is expensive, and nothing else is as easy to get up and running as quickly with the scalability we may need.

HTH.
Kurt.






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From: tjelvare <tjelvare@...>
To: firebird-php@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2008 1:17:43 PM
Subject: [firebird-php] firebird - that's why


Without any flame-intentions,
whats your arguments for choosing firebird instead of postgres as php-database.

For me, it's close to a tie, postgres has (now) built in fulltext, firebird is easy, performance
seems quite equal (postgres may be more ram-hungry). ..

Any suggestions from experienced users?






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