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 development and …

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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, …

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 …

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 engine …

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 Firebird.

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

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

Dec 24, 2025 · This is a technical webinar about indexes in Firebird database. This session will help you understand how indexes work internally and how to use them effectively.

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 PostgreSQL.