The Firebird project has been highly active in recent months with numerous updates and releases. In July 2025, the project celebrated its 25th Anniversary, marking a quarter-century of …

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The primary goals for Firebird 3.0 were to unify the server architecture and to improve support for SMP and multiple-core hardware platforms. Parallel objectives were to improve threading of …

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 …

Do you use Firebird? Become the Firebird Supporter now! Looking for the latest Firebird? Go to the Firebird 5.0 download page. Please note that 2.5 does not support modern Linux version …

Firebird 5.0 introduces improvements in areas of performance, multithreaded processing (including backup, restore, sweep), SQL queries profiling, with better scalability and numerous …

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 …

The open source Firebird® relational database management system performs excellently and scales impressively, from an embedded, single-user model to enterprise-wide deployments …

Sep 24, 2025 · We would like to draw your attention to this in-depth article, written on the basis of real-world experience, and devoted to a rarely discussed topic: migration from Firebird to …

The Firebird Project supplies users, developers, and administrators with various kinds of documentation, from Quick Start guides to expert-level articles devoted to various aspects of …