Re: [Firebird-net-provider] Firebird scalability under heavy load

[Steve M. <ste...@si...>]

> Well, needless to say I'm pretty happy with Firebird, which I believe is a 
> great db. In fact up to 10 concurrent users (I'm talking about our system, 
> it will obviously vary with others) Fb is better than SQL Server.
>
>
> Well, I tried both with SQLServer 2005 (a developers' release)  and Express 
> and they both give me the same numbers! I tried both with the same 
> hardware/sw configuration and the same dedicated client machines (about 40 
> boxes running plastic clients).
>   

That's very interesting. The Express version of SQL Server is limited to 
1 processor and 1 GB of memory. Maybe I'm not awake yet, but I would 
have expected the opposite results than what you show. I expected that 
as more users connected to SQL Server, it would slow down, from being 
too limited, and Firebird would show more speed.


Steve