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Firebird 2.1.4

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Firebird is a relational database offering many ANSI SQL-92 features that runs on Mac OS X, Linux, Windows, 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 commercially independent project of C and C++ programmers, technical advisors and supporters developing and enhancing a multi-platform relational database management system under the Initial Developer's Public License.

What's New

Version 2.1.4:

The optimizer now estimates the actual record compression ratio.
On Windows, the XNET_CONNECT_TIMEOUT in xnet.h has been made user-configurable.
Memory consumption of bytes for each temporary blob is now avoided.
When checking privileges, more information is available about the table that a column belongs to.
A large number of bug fixes has been performed.

Requirements
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.4 or later.

Related Links
Download Firebird 2.1.4 Superserver package
Download Firebird 2.1.4 for Mac OS X 10.2 and 10.4, in both Classical and Superserver packages.

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Anotherscott commented on 28 Nov 2010

I ran the installer, it appears to run successfully, but I can't find the application on my hard drive.

[Version 2.1.3]

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Negritude replied on 04 Sep 2011

This is a database server, not a clickable application. If you don't know what that is, you don't need it.

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kiddailey reviewed on 08 May 2008

A friend of mine recently introduced me to Firebird, which I learned is essentially just the OpenSource version of InterBase -- something that's been around for more than two decades and is a) extremely lightweight and b) extremely reliable. So reliable in fact that it's often use for embedded systems and the DBMS itself can be slimmed down to a mere 5MB (or so I read). Even still, my full working install has a bin folder of only about 8MB!

I've recently begun experimenting with this and am really surprised. For being such a tiny install, it's packed with speed and many of the same features you see in MSSQL, MySQL and PostgreSQL, but without the cost, bloat and weird syntax.

Full support for stored procedures, functions, domains, triggers, referential integrity, transactions etc. right out of the box. .NET providers and ODBC drivers are available as well as a number of free and commercial GUIs for management. Not to mention that it's available for a myriad of platforms.

If you're starting a small-medium scale project that needs a robust SQL DBMS, this might be worth a look.

[Version 2.1]

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