Firebird 2.5.0 RC2

Firebird Project - 6.94MB (Open Source) - BETA


Firebird is a relational database offering many ANSI SQL standard 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.


Firebird is a fully featured and powerful RDBMS. It can handle databases from just a few KB to many Gigabytes with good performance and almost free of maintenance!


Below is a list of some of the Firebird's major features:
*Full support of Stored Procedures and Triggers
*Full ACID compliant transactions
*Referential Integrity
*Multi Generational Architecture
*Very small footprint
*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
*Large user community
*Optional single file embedded version
*Dozens of third party tools
*Careful writes - fast recovery, no need for transaction logs!
*Many ways to access your database
*Native support for all major operating systems
*Incremental Backups
*64bits builds available
*Full cursor implementation in PSQL
*Monitoring tables
*Connection and Transaction Triggers
*Temporary Tables