On 02 Jul 2004 03:11, gstamp wrote:

>I had issues getting Firebird to work.  I think they were more problems
>with Firebird (1.5) than hibernate.  Kept getting constraint errors that
>should not have occured.  Not recommended.

I have had excellent success so far with Firebird (although I am using a
newer version).  If you are having issues, maybe you should try
upgrading to the latest release (1.5.1 at this writing).  Many bugs in
Firebird itself were fixed in this release, after a long beta period.  I
am currently using it with a recent version of Hibernate with no problems.

I see this database engine as a major contender to other enterprise
platforms with great support for a wide range of operating systems.  I
recommend it to anyone looking for an alternative to Oracle or DB2, or
even some of the smaller database engines out there (it doesn’t seem to
have much overhead in my testing).

Greg