Firebird (database server)

Firebird
Original author(s)Borland
Developer(s)Firebird Foundation
Initial release2000 (2000)
Stable release
5.0.1[1] Edit this on Wikidata / 2 August 2024; 3 months ago (2 August 2024)
Preview release
Firebird 5.0 Release Candidate 1 / 26.09.2023
Repository
Written inC++, C
Operating systemCross-platform
PlatformIA-32, x86-64
TypeRDBMS
LicenseIPL, IDPL
Websitewww.firebirdsql.org Edit this at Wikidata

Firebird is an open-source SQL relational database management system that supports Linux, Microsoft Windows, macOS and other Unix platforms.[2] The database forked from Borland's open source edition of InterBase in 2000 but the code has been largely rewritten since Firebird 1.5.[3]

  1. ^ "Firebird 5.0.1". 2 August 2024. Retrieved 4 August 2024.
  2. ^ "Firebird: A powerful, cross platform, SQL database system". SourceForge. SourceForge Media, LLC. 25 April 2018. Retrieved 2 May 2018.
  3. ^ "Firebird 1.5.5 Release Notes". Retrieved 29 September 2009. Firebird 1.5.5 General Notes for rewriting it from C to C++ language