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Tuesday 19 July 2011

Firebird 2.5.0

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




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