Subject Re: [firebird-support] Re: Real-World examples or Benchmarks
Author David Johnson
Don't forget to review Jim Starkey's notes on the changes from the
current Firebird architecture in the Vulcan rewrite. Those notes throw
a lot of light on the limits of Firebird's current architecture and the
pending improvements.

I would love to be involved in setting up some formal test cases, but my
work schedule has me limited right now.

On Tue, 2005-05-03 at 00:44 +0000, bruce_bacheller wrote:
> Anybody interested in coordinating the publication of this ?
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> --- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, Aage Johansen <aagjohan@o...>
> wrote:
> > brianasap wrote:
> > <<
> > There has been threads on this forum discussing scalablity, Aug-Sept
> 2004
> > (I believe) and February this year. You could search for posts by
> Dalton
> > Calford. I'm quoting a post here to get you started.
> > There is also a document, prepared by Helen B. based on posts by
> Dalton C.,
> > that discussed scaling. I'm sure someone will post the link.
> > >>
> > >
> > > Ok, I will search for these. BTW, I have ordered Helen's
> > > book. Does it include any "real-world" examples of usage?
> >
> > Probably not.
> >
> >
> > <<
> > We have firebird processing customer calls (over 2 million phone
> calls a
> > day) in a 5 9's environment. That system is replicated in three
> different ...
> > >>
> > >
> > > Your application certainly sounds impressive. Steve Summers was
> > > also kind enough to send me some information. (He published an
> > > article recently).
> >
> > This was Dalton Calford's site - sorry if it looked as if it was
> _my_ post.
> >
> >
> >
> > > It would be great IMO if some of these examples could be
> > > published more widely. I know that everyone in this business
> > > is stretched, and how do they get paid? Perhaps another book
> > > if it isn't already in Helen's.
> >
> > Agreed. Notes on performance, scalability, and more should be
> collected,
> > organized and published. Maybe IBPhoenix already have?
> >
> > >
> > > If I do adopt Fb, I will certainly make my small financial
> > > contribution to help continue it.
> > >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Aage J.
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