Firebird Reviews & Product Details

Integration of this database to other applications are easy to do, and has several good application use cases today.

Especially in the transportation area Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There is no way to perform recovery using transaction log backups Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Cost. Firebird is very cost effective for the job it does. There are also new versions and feature enhancements coming out as needed. Firebird also has a small footprint. It's efficient with resource useage Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There is documentation available online but it is not the greatest. Its a little limited Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The fact that the entire database is portable as a single file made migrating content from one system to another easy and fool-proof. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The lower marketshare of this database system (compared to other open source implementations) makes finding tutorials, support, and other implementations difficult. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Multi-User capability I think was a weakness. Although it supports this feature, it tended not to work very well in my opinion. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.