Firebird Alternatives for Windows

There are many alternatives to Firebird for Windows if you are looking for a replacement. The best Windows alternative is SQLite, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 25 alternatives to Firebird and many of them are available for Windows so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Windows alternatives to Firebird are PostgreSQL, MySQL Community Edition, MongoDB and Microsoft SQL Server.

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  1. SQLite icon
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    SQLite is a software library that implements a self-contained, serverless, zero-configuration, transactional SQL database engine. SQLite is the most widely deployed SQL database engine in the world. The source code for SQLite is in the public domain.

    72 SQLite alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Self-Hosted
     
  2. PostgreSQL icon
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    PostgreSQL is a powerful, open source object-relational database system with over 35 years of active development that has earned it a strong reputation for reliability, feature robustness, and performance.

    75 PostgreSQL alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Self-Hosted
     
  3. MySQL Community Edition is a freely downloadable version of the world's most popular open source database that is supported by an active community of open source developers and enthusiasts.

    67 MySQL Community Edition alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  4. MongoDB icon
     152 likes

    MongoDB is a document database with the scalability and flexibility that you want with the querying and indexing that you need

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • BSD
     
  5. SQL Server delivers on Microsoft’s Data Platform vision by helping your organization manage your data by enabling you to store data from structured, semi-structured, and unstructured documents within the database.

    67 Microsoft SQL Server alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  6. Filesystem-backed document DBMS in Rust where every record is a Git-versionable JSON file with automatic cryptographic integrity for compliance-critical systems.

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Rust
     
  7. FerretDB icon
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    FerretDB (formerly MangoDB) is an open-source proxy, which converts MongoDB wire protocol queries to SQL, and uses PostgreSQL as a database engine.

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
  8. RethinkDB icon
     18 likes

    The open-source database for the realtime web.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  9. Titan is a scalable graph database optimized for storing and querying graphs containing hundreds of billions of vertices and edges distributed across a multi-machine cluster. Titan is a transactional database that can support thousands of concurrent users executing complex graph...

    Cost / License

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  10. H2 is a relational database management system written in Java. It can be embedded in Java applications or run in the client-server mode. The disk footprint (size of the jar file) is about 1 MB.

    55 H2 Database Engine alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  11. SQLGate icon
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    SQLGate is an integrated database management and development solution that simplifies the construction and operation of databases. A solution that fits different types of databases, SQLGate is customized for seven different databases that make up 83.2% of the DBMS market.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
  12. HSQLDB icon
     9 likes

    HSQLDB (Hyper Structured Query Language Database) is a relational database management system written in Java. It has a JDBC driver and supports a large subset of SQL-92 and SQL:2008 standards. It offers a fast, small (around 1300 kilobytes in version 2.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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