Firebird
Firebird is a 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.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application type
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Android
- Android Tablet
Features
- Relational Database
Tags
- SQL
- Database
- MySQL
- firebird
- Postgres SQL
- embedded-database
Firebird News & Activities
Recent News
- POX published news article about Firebird
Firebird 5.0 released as the latest major version of this relational databaseThe Firebird team has officially launched Firebird 5.0, the most recent major version of their rela...
Recent activities
- coth updated Firebird
Firebird information
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What is Firebird?
Firebird is a 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. It has been used in production systems, under a variety of names since 1981. Firebird is a commercially independent project of C and C++ programmers, technical advisors and supporters developing and enhancing a multi-platform relational database management system based on the source code released by Inprise Corp (now known as Borland Software Corp) under the InterBase Public License v.1.0 on 25 July, 2000.
Comments and Reviews
Highly scalable - from embedded, as more feature rich alternative to SQLite, with unicode support out of box, to client-server for small business and higher to corporations, as Oracle and MSSQL alternative. Can also be used in the web, as there are PHP PDO driver and standalone feature rich Interbase extension.