--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, "Martin" <martin@...> wrote:

>
> Hi
>
> In our company we are currently looking into the possibility of migrating our product away from MySQL to an alternative RDBMS, and I told my boss I had worked with Firebird a few years ago when I was writing my thesis;

Firebird 2.5 performance is quite good and comparable with mysql +innodb (and scales better with the number of users, cpus ), i have tested in production and the only limiting factor is
hardware speed (disk) this is why some use SSD to speedup the IO


Here are some benchmarks but is better to do your own don't believe us :)

http://www.slideshare.net/tomneko/firebird25-benchmarksenglish20091031
http://www.ibphoenix.com/resources/documents/articles/doc_26