Firebird is described as 'Relational database offering many ANSI SQL-92 features that runs on Linux, Windows, and a variety of Unix platforms. Firebird offers excellent concurrency, high performance, and powerful language support for stored procedures and triggers' and is a relational database in the development category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Firebird for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, Web-based and Self-Hosted apps. The best Firebird alternative is SQLite, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Firebird are PostgreSQL, MySQL Community Edition, MongoDB and Microsoft SQL Server.