Firebird is a
RDBMS
offering many
ANSI SQL standard features that run on
Linux,
Windows and a
variety of
Unix platforms. Firebird offers concurrency,
high performance and powerful language support for stored procedures and
triggers. Firebird is
open source and as such, it
is completely free of any registration, licensing or deployment fees. It may be
deployed freely for use with any third-party software, whether commercial or
not.
The Firebird Project is a commercially independent project of C and
C++ programmers, technical advisors and
supporters developing and enhancing a multi-platform relational database
management system based on the source code released by Inprise Corp (now known
as Borland Software Corp) on 25 July, 2000. It has been used in production
systems, under a variety of names, since 1981.