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> Tim,
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> T> Under what circumstances should I as a developer consider
> using FB Embedded
> T> rather than FB?

Please have this posted at IBPhoenix and FireBirdSQL (if it isn't already..
Alan

>
> - you only need to access the database from a single, local process at a
> time and you need the best possible performaces. An embedded database
> connection beats any other protocol in terms of throughput.
>
> - you need to develop a client/server application in which the server
> part needs to be smarter than a database server (i.e. should provide
> additional application services) and you don't want/need to turn it
> into a 3-tier system. In that case, embed Firebird into your
> application server and there you go.
>
> - you have a single-user (1-tier) application that needs local
> storage support with the minimum possible impact on the target system.
> There are plenty of solutions for this kind of deployment, but fbembed
> beats them all in flexibility and feature-richness.
>
> - you have a client application in a C/S scenario (the server being
> Firebird) that needs to connect to the server and also needs local
> storage (perhaps as backup for when the C/S link is broken, perhaps as
> an aid for local processing). In that case you use fbembed as both an
> embedded database engine and as a client for an external Firebird
> server.
>
> - should any of the conditions that made one of the above scenarios
> interesting change, you can upgrade to Firebird stand-alone
> seamlessly.
>
> There could be other scenarios, these are the ones I have tried and
> use. If we acknowledge that having a real "embedded server" (as
> opposed to an embedded "engine", which is what fbembed.dll is) is a
> good idea, which I expect to happen somewhere around the 3.0 release,
> there are even more appealing deployment scenarios.
>
> HTH
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> Nando Dessena
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