IBDAC vs UNIDAC

[michaschumann]

I first licensed UNIDac, later IBDac as IBDac has great functions for using the Firebird services. I have a big application that runs against Firebird and uses UNIDac. I now want to extend it with functionality that uses IBDac (Backup/Restore, Log File etc). This raises two questions for me:

Will there be any problem using UNIDac and IBDac in the same application (of course I update them both every time)?

If not - would I have any performance or other advantages replacing UNIDac by IBDac in my application? It currently runs great with UNIDac so I would only invest the effort of replacing all the components if there is a real benefit.

Thanks,

Michael

[ViktorV]

You can use the Data Access Components (UniDAC and IBDAC) in the same application.
All our DAC products use the same basic core, therefore, for simultaneous installation of components to the same IDE, you should install compatible versions of DAC products.
The latest compatible versions are MyDAC 5.7.23 and UniDAC 6.3.12.
UniDAC uses each DAC components functionality, so you will have almost the same performance with UniDAC and specific DAC components.

[michaschumann]

Thanks, great this saves me a lot of work as I only will use IBDac where I need its specific functionality and I love Unidac having used it against Oracle and Firebird so often.

[ViktorV]

Thank you for your interest to our products.
If you have any questions during using our products, please don't hesitate to contact us - and we will try to help you solve them.