sâmbătă 1 august 2026

FBSimCity v0.6.0: the replication district — journal segments, commit order, and a synchronous replica that dies

sâmbătă 1 august 2026, 20:21

fbsimcity firebird internals mvcc replication visualization

FBSimCity, the explorable isometric city of Firebird internals, is at v0.6.0 with a new replication district. Replication without a log Firebird has no write-ahead log to ship, so its replication is logical — and it has to be. As each transaction commits, the changes themselves are written into a replication journal segment. When a segment fills it is sealed and queued for the replicator,

vineri 31 iulie 2026

Marius - Adrian Popa

node-firebird catches up: roadmap complete, issue tracker at zero

vineri 31 iulie 2026, 19:18

firebird node-firebird nodejs releases

Big news for anyone using Firebird from Node.js: the pure-JavaScript node-firebird driver shipped eight releases in under a week (v2.6.0 → v2.14.0), completing its entire roadmap and closing all 47 open issues — some dating back to 2015. The driver now stands at feature parity with the best Node.js drivers for Postgres and MySQL, while staying pure JavaScript with zero native

Marius - Adrian Popa

Announcing cl-firebird v1.0.0: Pure Common Lisp Driver with Full node-firebird Parity & Multi-Version CI Matrix

vineri 31 iulie 2026, 17:32

We are excited to announce the release of cl-firebird v1.0.0 — a pure Common Lisp database driver for Firebird 3.0, 4.0, 5.0, and 6.0+. Featuring full 1:1 feature parity with node-firebird, this release brings 12-factor connection URIs, thread-safe connection pooling, named placeholder parameter binding, custom type parsers (type-cast), streaming cursors, database events (POST_EVENT),

joi 30 iulie 2026

Marius - Adrian Popa

FBSimCity v0.4.0: the backup yard — gbak pins the OIT, nbackup fills the delta

joi 30 iulie 2026, 14:47

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FBSimCity — the explorable isometric city of Firebird internals — is at v0.4.0, and this release adds a whole backup yard, built around what gbak and nbackup actually do. gbak: the backup that pins your OIT gbak takes a logical backup online: it attaches like any other client and reads every table through a snapshot transaction. That snapshot is the interesting part — it pins

sâmbătă 25 iulie 2026

Eugeniu Pătraşcu