Borland announces InterBase 2007

Borland has today announced the latest version of its SQL RDMBS, called InterBase 2007. This is an interesting little SQL database, that has had an interesting support for transactions for a long time. Similar solutions have only just recently started to appear on more mainstream, big databases like Microsoft SQL Server.

I've always been a fan of InterBase, since it is easy to use, robust and performant for smallish installations. Plus, it is competitively priced, of course today one can get both Oracle and SQL Server for free.

The new version introduces journaling support (a transaction log file), better backups and batch support for SQL, and native Unicode database strings. On the lacking list I'd put the need for better management tools, better documentation and native OLEDB driver for .NET use. I don't want to use BDP.NET to access the thing.