A cost effective database management system.
Being able to perform well on standalone servers with higher data volumes with well-written SQL has made us utilize it to allow …
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FirebirdSQL is an open-source database which can be embedded.
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FirebirdSQL is an open-source database which can be embedded.
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July 24, 2022
A cost effective database management system.
Being able to perform well on standalone servers with higher data volumes with well-written SQL has made us utilize it to allow simultaneous connections seamlessly as this large supports our organization's needs. We use it to perform all staging activities as it can be deployed on Linux-based environments.
- Taking back ups is easy.
- It is an open source and free
- Fast performance.
- Clustering features require alot of attention.
- Remote access can be quite slow.
- Low maintenance
- Its free
- Easy to deploy, use and run.
- Cost effective saving us from paid relational database.
- Community support.
- Efficiency in handling simultaneous connections.
It is cost-effective, maintenance-free, easy to deploy and use on Linux and Windows environments and it works steadily. It has an open-source license. Installing Oracle was quite difficult in comparison to Firebird.
July 09, 2022
Fantastic data management system at low cost.
We use it to deploy on Linux based environment and perform all staging activities on it. It offers low-print relational database systems that suites all kinds of pc applications which is great for us. It is able to handle up to 1TB of data and thus can accommodate our organization's needs and it also supports SQL.
- Performance is really fast.
- It is portable and easy to take back ups.
- Its open n source and free.
- More attention is needed when it comes to high availability and clustering features.
- No embedded version for android.
- Remote access can be quite slow
- Friendly and powerful SQL language.
- Zero maintenance.
- Full text search.
- Cost effective as it's free.
- Effeciency with some speed test availability.
- Low maintenance has saved us on operational costs.
July 07, 2022
FirebirdSQL as free and low maintenance SQL database
FirebirdSQL is a nearly zero maintenance, low footprint relational database system suited for all kinds of PC applications, since even an embedded version exists which doesn't require installation - just copy the files. It supports SQL and database sizes > 1 TB are no problem. It is fully Unicode compatible, drivers for various development environments are available either from the vendors of these environments or from 3rd parties and there exists a healthy open source community around it along with documentation.
- In a test back when I started to use it it beat MySQL Hands down on some easy speed test.
- While the included backup functionality of MySQL failed back then (don't remember the details) the one from Firebird did work out of the box and Delphi meanwhile even has easy to use components to use this from a program written in it.
- It stores the user accounts in a central database and not in the database the self written application uses, at least up to V2.5.
- Theres no embedded version for Android as far as I know.
- Versions prior to V3.0 could always read the older file format versions. That has changed now, which makes upgrading an existing DB harder in some scenarious.
- Zero maintenance
- Easy installation
- Works stable
- Can't really say that, as my application is most of the times given away for free. But if the RDBMS would cost money, giving my app away for free wouldn't have been done I guess.
Back then I evaluated Oracle 8, IBM DB2, Mimer, SAP DB, MySQL, Borland Interbase (not Embarcadero Interbase and that one has the same roots as Firebird) and most likely other RDBMS. Firebird was free, usage was ok, it was (for my application) maintenance free and speed was ok for me. And it didn't trash my system! Getting Oracle installed is quite some task in comparison! Meanwhile I also have used SQLite, while it works essentially (it was used on a mobile project) I don't really like that it doesn't care much about data types.
I don't know how many, everybody who installs my software and that are > 100. It's a configuration and monitoring software for technical products.
1
Skills required: knowledge of relational databases and general IT knowledge. As already written: the DB is in most scenarios zero maintenance!
- Backend DB for my application
No
- Price
- Product Features
- Product Usability
Price: since the software which uses this DB is most of the time given away for free paying for licenses wouldn't be great...
I would maybe use a different test DB structure for testing.
- Implemented in-house
No
Change management was minimal
There was nothing to change: it was only me who started a new development project anyway and that needed a database.
- That not all tools were fully unicode compatible
- That some FB version which introduced unicode support did it wrong in the first version
Not sure if there's any and I didn't need that yet.
No
- Any things which would lock data or whole tables in some other RDBMs systems as FB uses a multi generation architecture.
- None that I know of.
No
July 07, 2022
Classic Database Management System
We are using Firebird SQL with ECM Software named M-Files. it really made our life easy because it is easy to manage, take backups, import and export. Not only this but it allows us to perform all of kind of staging activates on it. it also allows us to deploy on the Linux based environments.
- Reliable RDMS for the SMB's and we found its performance is really fast.
- It allows us to store the physical files into the folder location and reference of the document in the database.
- Easy to take back-ups, and portable.
- Need to work on it to save GIS based data.
- Although it is using third party admin tool but should have it own graphical interface
- Needs more attention on High availability and Clustering features
- Powerful and friendly SQL language
- logging
- Full Text Search
- Cost Effective Solution
- Community Support
Because it is having Open Source License and easy to deploy on windows and linux environment.
May 14, 2021
Free and Practical
We use the Firebird open source relational database in a small piece of IT infrastructure designed for a specific task in the workplace where I work. I mean small here is not insignificant. Firebird RDMBS is critical for us, fulfilling an important task of our organization that needs to work 24/7.
- It's free.
- Open source.
- No capacity restrictions (at least up to 950GB).
- It works with low system resources.
- It is seamless on many platforms. (Windows-Linux-FreeBSD-HpUX-Solaris-MacOS).
- Documentation.
- No GUI tool to view data.
- Slow via remote access.
- Free.
- Easy.
- It does not require much maintenance.
- Install, run and forget.
- The return on investment was of course because it freed us from paid relational databases.
- We have never experienced a negative situation.
As you know, the version of an application is very good for a period in the world of information technologies, it is the first in the performance / cost table. But some periods come and that practice lags behind. When Firebird made such a breakthrough, we preferred this application and we did not regret it.