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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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