Firebird is a free and very powerful database server. It’s a versatile open
source database that offers a wide range of ANSI SQL-99 features compatible
with Linux, Windows and a variety of Unix platforms. Firebird is actively used
in many production systems (warehousing and economic, financial and state
sectors) and within commercial companies.
Features and Capabilities:
Support for External Functions (UDFs);
Full transactions compliant with ACID;
Architecture with multi generational functionality (sometimes called MVCC);
Increasing backups;
Referential integrity;
Third party tools, GUI administrative and replication tools included;
Attentive and diligent writers - no need for having transaction logs;
A variety of access methods: ODBC, OLEDB, .Net provider, dbExpress drivers,
native/API, Python module, Perl, PHP, JDBC, native type 4 driver;
And many more!
Being highly compatible with industry standards on many fonts, Firebird
database becomes one of the most obvious choices that developers make when they
work with interoperable applications for hybrid and homogeneous environments.
Firebird has got about 1 million of software developers from all the corners
of the world. And it’s not surprising. It offers high performance, supreme
scalability, small footprint and simple comprehensive installation absolutely
free of charge!
Download Firebird, one of the most powerful open source database servers for
free!
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