I see that Firebird 3 Server cannot be installed side by side, out of the box, with Firebird 2.x, like MS SQL Server does for always. Installing Firebird 3 Server means no longer to run applications ...

package main import ( "fmt" "database/sql" _ "github.com/nakagami/firebirdsql" ) func main() { var n int conn, _ := sql.Open("firebirdsql", "user:password@servername ...

While high-profile open-source efforts like MySQL and PostgreSQL slug it out with the big four commercial databases, a Tasmanian newspaper is betting on the lesser-known Firebird SQL server for its ...

We tested six popular free or open source relational database management systems (RDBMS): Microsoft SQL Server Express, PostgreSQL, Oracle’s MySQL, MariaDB, Apache Derby, and Firebird SQL. We tested ...

Free or open source databases run hundreds of millions of public-facing and private applications worldwide, but how effective is this technology and how do these products compare? For answers, we ...

Firebird distills its identity into the phrase "True universal open-source database" and boasts not only of being "free like free beer" but also, fittingly, of being "free like a bird". The latter ...