Firebird
The open source relational database forked from Borland's InterBase, small enough to embed and full SQL with stored procedures. See how developers rate it month by month on DTDb.
- Category
- database engine
- Developer
- Firebird Project
- Created by
- —
- First release
- 2000
- License
- IPL, IDPL
- Open source
- Yes
- Pricing
- Free
- Website
- https://firebirdsql.org
- Written in
- C++
- Data model
- Relational
- Storage layout
- Row-oriented
- Workload
- Transactions (OLTP)
- Analytics architecture
- Not an analytics platform
- Query language
- SQL, PSQL
- ACID transactions
- Yes
- Schema
- Strict
- Deployment
- Embedded, Server
- Scaling
- Replication
- Create, read, update, delete
- Create: fast (Fast inserts); Read: fast (Index lookups and a mature optimizer); Update: moderate (MVCC keeps back versions until garbage collection); Delete: moderate (Garbage collection reclaims old versions)