Hello All,

We have been using Firebird for quite a while now and are very pleased with the performance and behaviour.

However, we are looking into (and are being asked by our clients) to clustering, load balancing and automatic failover behaviour. As we are using Linux as our primary server setup, this should all of course work under Linux.

Are there any pointers/documents/tools available on how to setup clustering and/or load balancing? Are there any environments know that can handle automatic failovers (back and forth)?

Any information would be greatly appreciated.

Our standard architecture is a middleware server that accepts requests from client applications and takes care of the communication with Firebird. The client applications do not directly connect to the firebird database. The middleware and firebird generally run on the same machine. The number of requests can run up to approx 1000 per minute.

Kind regards,

Diederik