[Zope] Interbase DB

[bobc@p-wave.com]

Interbase 6.0 will be open source for all platforms according to the open source Q&A at 
interbase.com : http://www.interbase.com/open/community/opensource_qa.html. The 
current version (5.6) is still commercial however. The 6.0 version comes with a user 
defined function library which includes date functions (I had the same problem when I 
started to use Interbase - found a UDF library, from Canada I think - NT only however) It 
also now has an Extract operator to work with the datetime datatype. I've been using 
Interbase since version 4.0 (about four years). I have it in use with up to 35 users 
simultaneously. I don't know how well it would scale to very large systems. I also would 
like to see an Interbase DA for Zope. I'm not enough of a Python programmer yet to do 
it myself, but I might have to bite the bullet and try.

Bob Corriher

Original Message

Message: 55
Reply-To: "Ian Sparks" <isparks@wmute.u-net.com>
From: "Ian Sparks" <isparks@wmute.u-net.com>
To: <bkc@murkworks.com>, <zope@zope.org>
Subject: Re: [Zope] Interbase DB
Date: Fri, 5 May 2000 18:42:54 +0100
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This may not help at all but I know there is a Perl interface to Interbase
-
saw it at www.interbase.com a while back.

Can I ask why the interest in Interbase over, say, PostgreSQL

I've been using Interbase on NT for a few years now. It's stable, zero
maintenance, hard-to-kill and has decent features like triggers, stored
procedures etc. The one thing that lets it down is the built-in functions
-
you really need to get a User Defined Functions (UDF) library from day 0
and
install it to do any sort of date manipulation for instance. My problem
with
this is that it makes your DB code hard to port between platforms - that
UDF
lib you use on NT won't work on Linux - esp. since UDF libs are often
written in Delphi and thus tied to Win32 (at least until Kylix is
released).

I also notice that Interbase don't seem to offer a free version to NT
users - that's because they have so many NT customers who already bought
licences who will want refunds!

One final notice is that Interbase only became Open Source after its key
members of its development team walked out in protest over the way that
the
parent company was pushing (or not) the product. How can Interbase.com
turn
this crisis into an opportunity? OpenSource it!

- Ian Sparks.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Brad Clements" <bkc@murkworks.com>
To: <zope@zope.org>
Sent: Friday, May 05, 2000 3:25 PM
Subject: Re: [Zope] Interbase DB


On 5 May 2000, at 9:38, Olivier Deckmyn wrote:

> When looking for Interbase on python.org, one can find :
>
> http://www.python.org/topics/database/modules.html
>
> where there seem to exists at least one python module to connect to
> Interbase RDBMS ...
>
> This could be a starting point for a DAInterbase?


Yes, thats Kinterbasdb. I wrote  to the author a few weeks ago, but
never received a reply.


Brad Clements,                bkc@murkworks.com   (315)268-1000
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