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A comment on Firebird: Historical Reference (2011).

Re:Firebird: Historical Reference (2011) by cowmix on Friday October 25, 2019 @10:31AM (#21355303)
It always puzzled me why Firebird didn't get more popular. It was a great little RMDBS.
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Re:Firebird: Historical Reference (2011) by akklesed on Friday October 25, 2019 @12:58PM (#21356917)
>It was a great little RMDBS.

Why "was"? Nowadays it's not?

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Re:Firebird: Historical Reference (2011) by k__ on Friday October 25, 2019 @12:33PM (#21356638)
Is it in some way worse than SQLite?
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Re:Firebird: Historical Reference (2011) by snagglegaggle on Friday October 25, 2019 @12:59PM (#21356934)
Do you mean better? Firebird allows multiple clients.
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Re:Firebird: Historical Reference (2011) by k__ on Friday October 25, 2019 @06:27PM (#21359867)
No, I wanted to know why it's used less often.
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