--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, "Martijn Tonies"
<m.tonies@u...> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> > I understand that Firebird doesn't have any built-in clustering.
> >
> > Can anyone recommend any tools to be able to cluster Firebird?
> >
> > Any real-life experiences?
>
> Please define "clustering" - do you mean one service taking
> over of another after the it has failed? (crashed)
>
> Or do you mean two services on two machines using the
> same physical datafiles?

Errr...anything that will allow us to scale!!

I'm a beginner at all this, but I would say that we are looking to
run database on a cluster of machines in such a way that they all
**share** the load. This, I am assuming, will also provide failover
for free - if one of them crashes, the others will carry on.

Any ideas on how to implement this with Firebird, and what tools
would help?

Many thanks,

David