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# Firebird Reviews
**Vendor:** Firebird Foundation  
**Category:** [Relational Databases](https://www.g2.com/categories/relational-databases)  
**Average Rating:** 4.1/5.0  
**Total Reviews:** 24
## About Firebird
Firebird is a relational database offering many ANSI SQL standard features that runs on Linux, Windows, and a variety of Unix platforms.




## Firebird Reviews
  ### 1. Good Database System

**Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Consumer Goods | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** October 23, 2018

**What do you like best about Firebird?**

It is open source and well documented. Never had problems with this. 

**What do you dislike about Firebird?**

Lack of new features and scalability. Not too much forums that can help you in case of a problem. 

**Recommendations to others considering Firebird:**

If you want something cheap and free, then, this is yours. 

**What problems is Firebird solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Firebird is being used for a small business software. 

  ### 2. Easy to develop and deploy

**Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** John O. | Sr. Manager, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** November 26, 2013

**What do you like best about Firebird?**

I used the Firebird Database platform for desktop based applications.  I primarily coded using Delphi, where it had hooks into Interbase (a different flavor of Firebird).  It was really easy to deploy applications without the use of the Borland Database Engine (BDE).  I'm sure it's advanced since then so other IDEs can interface with the platform via API.  Performance was fast and coding using Stored Procedures was similar to other database platforms.

**What do you dislike about Firebird?**

Multi-User capability I think was a weakness.  Although it supports this feature, it tended not to work very well in my opinion.

**Recommendations to others considering Firebird:**

Considering that there are other free databases out there, I would actually recommend looking at the alternatives and see if that fits within your development requirements.

**What problems is Firebird solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Ease of use with development and deployment in a small business environment.


## Firebird Discussions
  - [Is Firebird free?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/is-firebird-free)
  - [What is Firebird EXE?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-firebird-exe)
  - [Is Firebird a good database?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/is-firebird-a-good-database)
  - [What is Firebird used for?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-firebird-used-for)
  - [How to convert database (with preserving datas) from branch 2.x to 3.0 of Firebird ?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/35873-how-to-convert-database-with-preserving-datas-from-branch-2-x-to-3-0-of-firebird) - 1 upvote

- [View Firebird pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/firebird/reviews?filters%5Bnps_score%5D%5B%5D=3&section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-08-13+02%3A38%3A48+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=492b9e78-4160-4bf0-8cef-1526a25569a5&secure%5Btoken%5D=bf1cc659f96a917cf63ebe763a1f7b8bdf83fbb71c2433e7d922ad33647fe0bc&format=llm_user)

## Firebird Features
**Management **
- Data Schema
- Query Language
- ACID - Complaint
- Data Replication

**Support **
- Text Search
- Data Types
- Languages
- Operating Systems

**Security**
- Database Locking
- Access Control
- Encryption
- Authentication

**Performance **
- Disaster Recovery
- Data Concurrency
- Workload Management
- Advanced Indexing
- Query Optimizer

**Database Features**
- Storage
- Availability
- Stability
- Scalability
- Security
- Data Manipulation
- Query Language

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