[Zope] Interbase DB

[Chris Beaumont]

A ZopeDA for Interbase..I really hope so... 

Id also be very interested. Ive been using Interbase for only a few
weeks now, and I'm *very* impressed. 
It is way ahead (for my purposes, at least) of anything else available
on Linux through any kind of open-source license. 

I think Interbase was the first RDBMS to support BLOBs (binary objects)
and it is the first *open-source* database to reliably support
referential integrity, triggers and stored procedures.. (like the
well-known commercial offerings, which Interbase was until a few months
ago.) It has a reputation for being *extremely* stable and it is a very
mature and well-engineered product. (It used to be owned by DEC, from
what I understand, before they were assimilated by Compaq.) It is
currently owned by Corel/Inprise. (I am pretty sure)

I'm a newbie to SQL (and Zope) but now that I am building my first
full-sized SQL project, I can see that key features like foreign
keys/referential integrity are very important in any kind of serious SQL
work. I started this project thinking I would use MySQL, but I quickly
realized that MySQL couldnt handle the foreign key construct I was
assuming I could use..  I guess I could have added extra tables to my
design to simulate foreign keys in MySQL, but when I heard about
Interbase, I was overjoyed. After deciding on Interbase then I went
looking for some middleware to connect my database to the Web, and guess
where I ended up after a *lot* of research.. here... Like Interbase,
Zope is perfect for what I have planned for my project. 

There has been a fair amount of discussion of Zope over on the Interbase
list, and I and everyone else I have spoken to that knows anything about
these things agrees, the two are natural partners.

Chris Beaumont
webmaster, MSRI
www.msri.org



Jason Cunliffe wrote:
> 
> > On 4 May 2000, at 17:12, Tom Deprez wrote:
> 
> > I'm using Kinterbasdb with SQLDict in an extension module and calling
> > that from Zope.
> >
> > I'd also like to see a true Zope DA for Interbase.. Not sure where's the
> > best place to start to write one...
> 
> We are very interested also in using Interbase with Zope.
> ZopeDA for Interbase would be a GOOD thing.
> 
> Meanwhile, if you care to share some of your experiences writing and using
> your Extension Module,its code or how-to then that would be a great help in
> getting up to Interbase speed.
> 
> tia
> 
> - Jason
> 
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