> Let me rephrase what I think you are saying:
>
> 1. You have an existing application that consists of a client piece and
> a midware server piece.
> 2. The client piece talks to your midware server piece.
> 3. You want to use Firebird embedded as the backing store for the
> midware server part of your application
>
> U have measured less than 5% improvement in throughput on small
> transactions by using embedded over superserver.
>
> Embedded is superserver in a DLL, so it is not surprising that the
> performance of the two models are similar. The sockets overhead is very
> small, so there is not much difference between them in practical usage.

have to disagree slightly here... use of the direct exported methods of the
SS as in embedded as opposed to socket to remote server, significantly
improves performance IME.
Alan