Postgres vs Firebird

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I'm looking to use either Firebird or Postgres in my next development project ... largely because both are available under a BSD-like license.

I found a great comparison of the two database at http://web.archive.org/web/20100305134128/http://www.amsoftwaredesign.com/pg_vs_fb

But this comparison is a good 4+ years old and both databases have come a long ways since.

Does anyone mind updating the comparison table to be relevant for the current versions of both Firebird and Postgres ... or have a link to a site that does a good recent comparison between the two database?

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For those who are using Firebird, I would suggest reading the Firebird 2.1 Release Notes to understand a database corruption issue wrt to older Firebird versions running on Linux.

In short it has to do with a bug in Linux. For older Firebirds, the workaround is to mount the affected filesystem with the sync option. The problem is fixed in FB2.1.

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