Revathy Mahalingam wrote:

>Hi,
>
>One of our clients has some existing products, which generate real-time
>data. Now they intend to integrate a backend for these products.
>
>Can anyone tell me what is the raw format of the Firebird database files, so
>that I can directly write into a file without the overhead of the API's
>
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The API overhead is a non-problem. The bottleneck is on I/O, not
CPU. To improve performance change your disks to the fastest possible
SCSI attached to a good controller.

Ivan.