IBPhoenix Research

Contributed Research Articles

This page is reserved for Firebird related research. If you have done research and have a paper you would like to contribute on a Firebird, InterBase or another relational database related topic, please send to us. If you wish to comment on any of these papers or ideas then subscribe to the Firebird Architect List - the de facto forum for asking about and discussing the architecture of Firebird.

• Aggregate Tables with Firebird
  by Thomas Steinmaurer (Winning article in 2010 Mind the Bird article contest)
• Audit and Trace Services in Firebird 2.5
  by Thomas Steinmaurer (Submitted to 2010 Mind the Bird article contest)
• Firebird Road Trip and What's New in Firebird 2.5
  by Thomas Steinmaurer (Submitted to 2010 Mind the Bird article contest)
• Choosing a File System on Linux for Firebird
  By Philippe Makowski
• A not-so-very technical discussion of Multi Version Concurrency Control
  By Roman Rokytskyy.
• Generic Triggers For InterBase?
  By Jim Starkey.
• Java UDF's Functional Specification
• Java UDF's Design Notes
  Whilst InterBase V6.0 was in beta, work was started on the implementation of a design for supporting Java UDF's in the next release of InterBase. These two documents contain the pertinent information related to this work.
• Conceptual Architecture for InterBase/Firebird
  By Hubert Chan and Dmytro Yashkir.