Firebird

Firebird is an open-source RDBMS, originally based on Borland's Interbase but which has been substantially rewritten since it was forked in 2001.

Important releases

• 4.0 (June 2021, release notes, documentation)
• 3.0 (2015, documentation)
• 2.5 (2010)
• 2.1 (2008)
• 2.0 (November 2006)
• 1.5 (February 2004)
• 1.0 (July 2000)

See the roadmap for information on current supported versions.

Links

Firebird project:

• Firebird project page
• Firebird News
• Firebird FAQ

Other:

• Wikipedia: Firebird_(database_server)
• The Firebird Database Engine & The Frustrations of The Long Distance Database Application Developer

Personal Projects

Some personal projects related to Firebird - with a very PostgreSQL style.

• libfq - a wrapper library for Firebird's C API, loosely based on PostgreSQL's libpq
• firebird_fdw - a PostgreSQL foreign data wrapper (FDW) for Firebird
• fbsql - a simple command-line client for the Firebird database, inspired by PostgreSQL's psql