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DESCRIPTION
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.
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WHAT'S NEW
Version 2.1.1 is a patch release that corrects a number of bugs, regressions or shortcomings that were reported following the v.2.1 final release. Included are fixes for the problems that made the nBackup utility unserviceable in that release, some changes to improve the new database monitoring feature's handling of a heavily loaded system and other changes to address complaints of slowness in some DML operations.
REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.4 or later.


Developer:firebirdsql.org
Downloads:2,559
  - Version d/l:887
Business:Applications
License:Free
Date:16 Jul 2008
Platform:PPC/Intel
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    May 8 2008
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    KIDDAILEY  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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