Re[8]: [Firebird-devel] Max transaction duration

[Ann W. H. <aha...@ib...>]

At 02:24 PM 12/15/2002 +0300, Nickolay Samofatov wrote:

>Oracle internals and operation seems very, very close to Firebird
>internals. Saying more, Firebird CS have better potential to scale
>then Oracle now. Firebird CS codebase is already cluster-ready and it
>should work exteremely nice in cluster because of very clever VIO code.
>I'm curious when first clustered solution will be implemented with
>Firebird...


You missed it by about 20 years.  The architecture was designed for
VAX clusters and ran there very nicely.  The difference between VAX
clusters and current cluster implementations is that VAXen had a
distributed lock manager.  With that piece, we'd run on clusters
perfectly.


Regards,

Ann
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