What is Firebird?
Firebird is a relational database offering many ANSI SQL standard features that runs on Linux, Windows, MacOS 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 tool in the Databases category of a tech stack.
Firebird is an open source tool with 1.2K GitHub stars and 204 GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Firebird's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses Firebird?
Companies
8 companies reportedly use Firebird in their tech stacks, including Kravia, Hetosoft Sistemas, and KingHost.
Developers
71 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Firebird.
Firebird Integrations
Entity Framework, Liquibase, DBeaver, Dapper, and Entity Framework Core are some of the popular tools that integrate with Firebird. Here's a list of all 17 tools that integrate with Firebird.
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Firebird Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Firebird?
MySQL
The MySQL software delivers a very fast, multi-threaded, multi-user, and robust SQL (Structured Query Language) database server. MySQL Server is intended for mission-critical, heavy-load production systems as well as for embedding into mass-deployed software.
MariaDB
Started by core members of the original MySQL team, MariaDB actively works with outside developers to deliver the most featureful, stable, and sanely licensed open SQL server in the industry. MariaDB is designed as a drop-in replacement of MySQL(R) with more features, new storage engines, fewer bugs, and better performance.
JavaScript
JavaScript is most known as the scripting language for Web pages, but used in many non-browser environments as well such as node.js or Apache CouchDB. It is a prototype-based, multi-paradigm scripting language that is dynamic,and supports object-oriented, imperative, and functional programming styles.
Git
Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.
GitHub
GitHub is the best place to share code with friends, co-workers, classmates, and complete strangers. Over three million people use GitHub to build amazing things together.
