Alfresco on Firebird DBMS *slightly faster*

[unknown-user]

Hello.

Some time ago I?ve been evaluating Alfresco

Since all other systems in our company use Firebird as a database back-end I?ve decided to move Alfresco to Firebird.

Here are the steps:

    * install FB2.0RC SS (Win32)
    * add JayBird jar to appropriate location
    * change connection string params in Alfresco xml configuration files
    * change Hibernate SQL dialect to FirebirdDialect in its properties files

That?s all. Hibernate creates all the required tables, etc.

Time required is about 30 min on a clean database (without porting existing records).

FB1.x cannot be used because of index size limits - it cannot handle
char-enocded GUIDs (a pair of them in one index) if the database is UTF8.

A for performance, I cannot say for sure, because we?ve just evaluated a product without heavy load. But at the first glance FB is slightly faster.

Maxim.   

[maximshiryaev]

Hi.

It's me who actually posted this message to Firebird suport list.
It was a reaction to a question about experience in migration of projects from other DBMSs to Firebird.

It's copy-and-pasted correctly. But note that I don't emphasize the performance. The point is that it's very easy to migrate and there is no performance problems and it LOOKS LIKE Firebird behaves better - without precise testing. But note that we have years experience ajusting Interbase/Firebird performance since we use it in business-critical applications. We have no such experience with MySQL.

Currently Alfresco undergoes more heavy investigation because we are considering it as our primary CMS option for 2007+. The platform will be 2xOpteron(double-core each), 4G RAM, 16xSATA-II 500GB RAID6 disks. As of OS we haven't decided yet between Win64 and Gento (AMD64). Expected load is about 200 users total.

If anybody interested I could post some sort of report by the end of November.

Just to clarify.

Maxim Shiryaev

[kennethp]

I just found that Firebird is a better choice than hsql in term of portable db since the db has wider accessing methods, such as JDBC, ODBC, ADO.NET, C/C++ API. I need to have our .NET components talking to Alfresco DB.

It's great to hear that you have tried it successfully ! Do you have any idea how Firebird+Alfresco perform in medium scale businesses (5-10K documents per day) ? How fast is Firebird compared to mysql ?

I appreciate if you could share your experience about integrating Firebird with Alfresco. We are in deciding phase to pick a right DBMS.