FirebirdSQL

FirebirdSQL

FirebirdSQL

16 Reviews and Ratings

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Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Firebird	Score 9.8 out of 10	N/A	FirebirdSQL is an open-source database which can be embedded.	N/A

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Community Pulse
	FirebirdSQL
Considered Both Products	Firebird Pauline Harris Account Specialist Chose Firebird 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. Incentivized Helpful? Jane Carey Account Executive Chose Firebird It came a time when the practice of SQLite was lagging behind and of course, we were looking at the cost that was being involved and so Firebird made the breakthrough for us from both. It has an open-source license and it is easy to deploy on Windows and Linux environments. Incentivized Helpful? Muddassar Inayat IT Solutions Consultant Chose Firebird Because it is having Open Source License and easy to deploy on windows and linux environment. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Firebird 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 … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Firebird 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 … Incentivized Helpful?

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User Ratings
	FirebirdSQL
Likelihood to Recommend	8.2 (0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	9.0 (0 ratings)
Usability	8.0 (0 ratings)
Support Rating	5.0 (0 ratings)
Implementation Rating	9.0 (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	FirebirdSQL
Likelihood to Recommend	When looking for low maintenance and a solution suited for all kinds of pc applications. It is great when you are looking to store physical files in folder locations and you can then reference the document in the database. It has an open-source community around it along with documentation for third-party drivers of the development environment. Incentivized Jane Carey Account Executive Read full review
Pros	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. Incentivized Muddassar Inayat IT Solutions Consultant Read full review
Cons	Clustering features require alot of attention. Remote access can be quite slow. Incentivized Pauline Harris Account Specialist Read full review
Likelihood to Renew	Because it is free and usually zero maintenance. Just the issue of more difficult format updates in the future lower the rating a bit. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Usability	Usability has improved by unifying the architecture. The only thing's missing out of the box is a simple GUI DB tool for viewing DB contents and maybe running some SQL queries. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Support Rating	This is an open source project. It provides a fair amount of free documentation and I think forums somewhere... Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Implementation Rating	Even somebody just starting to use RDBMS himself should get it working quickly, at least if he's got a GUI tool and some SQL knowledge. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Alternatives Considered	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. Incentivized Pauline Harris Account Specialist Read full review
Return on Investment	The return on investment was of course because it freed us from paid relational databases. We have never experienced a negative situation. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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