Firebird
Relational database server with ANSI SQL features, stored procedures and triggers, developed as a community project from the InterBase source code.
Firebird is a relational database server with ANSI SQL features, stored procedures and triggers, developed by the Firebird Project as a community project from the InterBase source code. It can run as a service or as an application, and an embedded version is available as a DLL. Windows installers and zip kits, RPM and tar.gz packages for Linux, distribution repositories, a Docker image and build instructions for compiling from source are all published. Users and roles are managed with GRANT and REVOKE, and free support runs through mailing lists.
Worth knowing
The project states that Firebird is free for commercial and educational use with no license fees. The source is released under the Initial Developer’s Public License and the InterBase Public License, both variants of the Mozilla Public License 1.1, and GitHub shows no single license for the repository.
Identity
Rendering and deploy
Releases
Adoption
Sources
- 2026-10-29: name, links
firebirdsql.org/ - 2026-10-29: links, Written in, GitHub stars
api.github.com/repos/FirebirdSQL/firebird - 2026-10-29: links, License, Install with
github.com/FirebirdSQL/firebird/blob/master/README.md - 2026-10-29: Maintainer, Categories
firebirdsql.org/en/about/ - 2026-10-29: Runtime, Install with
firebirdsql.org/en/firebird-5-0/ - 2026-10-29: Current major version, Last release
api.github.com/repos/FirebirdSQL/firebird/releases/latest - 2026-10-29: First release
firebirdsql.org/en/historical-reference/ - 2026-10-29: License
firebirdsql.org/en/initial-developer-s-public-license-version-1-0/ - 2026-10-29: License
firebirdsql.org/en/interbase-public-license/ - 2026-10-29: License model, Install with, Runs as
firebirdsql.org/en/features/ - 2026-10-29: Contributors
api.github.com/repos/FirebirdSQL/firebird/contributors