How to Migrate to InterBase/Firebird Databases?
When speaking about the functionality and/or performance, many arguments can be mentioned in favor of InterBase/Firebird database management systems – at least as compared to the leading enterprise level RDBMSs. For example, from the cost perspective Firebird offers a comfortable migration path from closed-source, commercial databases to an open-source analogue since Firebird provides a lot of the features available in commercial databases, including stored procedures, triggers, hot backups (backups made while the database is running) and replication. Some advantages furthermore assigned to InterBase/Firebird database management systems are standard conformity, stability, a small footprint (needing few resources) and ease of administration. As a result, now both InterBase and Firebird offer a high performance, scalable, portable and cross-platform database solution that is ideal for mission critical enterprise or embedded applications. Here we will not consider the causes of migration
