Is FireBird still alive? [closed]

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I am looking for some embedded databases. SQLite has some issues with the GUI. What about FireBird? How active is it's mailing list and forums? Does it follow all the rules of ANSI SQL? Is it suitable for production?

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Is Firebird still alive? Are you kidding? It is only few weeks since Firebird 2.5 has been launched. We use it in our commercial products both ways, as a client server and as an embedded solution. We found it stable, powerfull and SQL compliant. Comparing with MSSQL there are two significant advantages.

1. Firebird is free;
2. Firebird is cross-platform.

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I come from a primarily microsoft based background and typically work in C#, asp.net and sql server. I recently started working with firebird for one of my clients. I am enjoying working with it and I am using a tool called databaseworkbench for gui administration right now. I also here that IbExpert is a good gui admin tool. I plan to try it out and there are many others. I actually did not care much for the FlameRobin tool at all but that's just my personal opinion.

In my opinion if firebird shipped with a great built-in gui admin tool it would be much more popular. People struggle to figure out which gui admin tool to use and the gui admin tool you choose highly controls how you perceive firebird as a database because different gui admin tools offer different features and functionality. So far so good though here. The client I am working for right now has about 800 companies running the firebird db as a backend successfully.

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Going to Firebird web site and checking their news, releases, and bigfix list will give you an idea how active it is. I am very pleased with Firebird and I can recommend it without blinking.

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Sure. firebird is alive with new featurea. I'm using it on production for long time and big tables

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dbvisualizer works pretty well with firebird.

I have found firebird to be pretty reliable. However, there are some gotchas.

Eg,

Select first 10 * from table_a;

instead of

select * from table_a limit 10;

Using an orm to talk to db usually takes care of these differences.

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I think, Firebird Development Studio from SQLLY is close to something called IDE for Firebird RDBMS (regardless of the bugs that I encountered while using it), I haven't found other tools that has a refactoring feature that very helpful at development stage.