--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, David Johnson
<johnson_d@c...> wrote:

>
> aside: A mysql user suggesting that Firebird is not a "real" RDBMS?
> mysql doesn't support two phase commits (performance versus
> reliability), and only qualifies as relational if you take the minimum
> possible requirements and twist them a bit to the left. Firebird is a
> very different architecture, but it is almost (_almost_) a drop-in
> replacement for DB2, and its commercial predecessor was originally
> architected and marketed to compete directly with Oracle.

I must say that I'm very interested in this issue. What do you meant
by "only qualifies as relational if you take the minimum possible
requirements and twist them a bit to the left."

With system administrators still considering that mysql is far more
superior than FB, what concrete proofs do we have?

maurice