Firebird (Firebird SQL) – a powerful, compact, cross platform, a free database management system (DBMS), provides the most complete support standard ANSI SQL, running on Linux, Windows and various Unix platforms.
Firebird is a database server. Powerful, but at the same time, with minimum requirements for setup and administration, Firebird easily scalable from single applications to large corporate systems. One Firebird server can handle several independent databases, each with multiple user connections. And, not least, Firebird is a true open source, completely free from royalties, even for commercial use.
Features:
- Firebird has full support of Stored Procedures and Triggers
- Firebird has full ACID compliant transactions
- Referential Integrity
- Multi Generational Architecture (sometimes called MVCC)
- Firebird has very small footprint
- Firebird has fully featured internal language for Stored Procedures and Triggers (PSQL)
- Support for External Functions (UDFs)
- Little or no need for specialized DBAs
- Almost no configuration needed – just install and start using
- Big community and lots of places where you can get free and good support
- Optional single file embedded version – great to create CDROM catalogs, single user or evaluation versions of applications
- Firebird includes dozens of third party tools, including GUI administrative tools, replication tools, etc.
- Careful writes – fast recovery, no need for transaction logs
- Firebird has many ways to access your database: native/API, dbExpress drivers, ODBC, OLEDB, .Net provider, JDBC native type 4 driver, Python module, PHP, Perl, etc.
- Native support for all major operating systems, including Windows, Linux, Solaris, Mac OS.
- Incremental Backups
- 64-bit builds available
- Firebird has full cursor implementation in PSQL
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