Hello everyone,

I'm currently working on a medium-sized website, including a store and 'regular' news / article / commenting features. The company me and my team are creating this site for also has a real-life store, which will have software running on it's consoles that queries the same database used by the website, for product information and such.

Up until now we've been developing the website using MySQL as a database solution, but recently the team that's developing the software for the real-life store has brought up the idea to switch to a database server called Firebird - http://firebird.sourceforge.net/
I couldn't find any benchmarks or featurelists on that website, nor could I find feature comparisons and benchmark-comparisons with Firebird on the MySQL site. Ofcourse I'm dying to know which database is the better choice. The team that's developing the software claims that Firebird is more reliable when there are a lot of users quering the database.

Could anyone tell me more about the cons and pros of Firebird in relation to MySQL? Thanks in advance!

p.s.: English is not my native language so I apologise for any errors