Martin wrote:

> our product involves bulk inserts and deletes of records

Deletes pose a problem for most relational databases. Did you consider
using some noSQL database that works only as store-retrieve storage?

If that is not an option, I guess you could get the same performance
with Firebird as with MySQL InnoDB, while getting a more robust system.

> I would also like to know about licensing issues with firebird.

Unless you change the Firebird code, you can use if for whatever you
like. If you change Firebird code, you need to share with whoever you
give executables to. If you're doing it only for your company, then
obviously, you can do whatever you like with it.

--
Milan Babuskov

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