Home about firebird documentation downloads community support development case studies 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 4.0 introduces new data types and many improvements without radical changes in architecture or operation, the most important are Logical replication, longer metadata identifiers, international time zone support, timeouts for connections and statements. Firebird 5.0 introduces improvements in areas of performance, multithreaded processing (including backup, restore, sweep), sql queries profiling, with better scalability and numerous enhancements in sql language.
Stay updated with the latest advancements in firebird development over the past quarter and catch the hottest news from the firebird community Plus, our ongoing story about the secrets of firebird takes a delightfully spooky twist, just in time for halloween! Parallel objectives were to improve threading of engine processes and the options for sharing page cache across thread and connection boundaries. The firebird quick start guide is an introduction for the complete newcomer to a few essentials for getting off to a quick start with a firebird binary kit The guide first saw the light as chapter 1 of the using firebird manual, sold on cd by ibphoenix.
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