FirebirdSQL vs. RaimaDB

When looking for low maintenance and a solution suited for all kinds of pc applications. It is great when you are looking to store physical files in folder locations and you can then reference the document in the database. It has an open-source community around it along with documentation for third-party drivers of the development environment.

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Works very well in applications designed for IoT devices where performance and footprint are of great importance.

• Reliable RDMS for the SMB's and we found its performance is really fast.
• It allows us to store the physical files into the folder location and reference of the document in the database.
• Easy to take back-ups, and portable.

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• First of all the performance of RDM was superior compared to SQLite in my multi-user environment (about 200 users). The pricing was surprisingly good compared to other high-performance databases.
• Decreased time to market, a faster and more performant application overall and lower maintenance costs.
• They run on most RTOS and can be used in a cross-platform environment.

• Clustering features require alot of attention.
• Remote access can be quite slow.

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• I would like to see REST API with a GUI for administration

Because it is free and usually zero maintenance. Just the issue of more difficult format updates in the future lower the rating a bit.

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Usability has improved by unifying the architecture. The only thing's missing out of the box is a simple GUI DB tool for viewing DB contents and maybe running some SQL queries.

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This is an open source project. It provides a fair amount of free documentation and I think forums somewhere...

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Even somebody just starting to use RDBMS himself should get it working quickly, at least if he's got a GUI tool and some SQL knowledge.

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It is cost-effective, maintenance-free, easy to deploy and use on Linux and Windows environments and it works steadily. It has an open-source license. Installing Oracle was quite difficult in comparison to Firebird.

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RDM performs way better than SQLite when the database is larger and has multiple users.

• The return on investment was of course because it freed us from paid relational databases.
• We have never experienced a negative situation.

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• Decreased time to market
• Decreased maintenance and service costs on hardware.