User Reviews of Firebird SQL & MySQL

Updated June 2025

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Firebird SQL review

Nicolae Ancuta
Nicolae Ancuta
Retail Solution & BI Manager at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Strong event capabilities, allowing raising and displaying events in applications
On large databases, we have some difficulties. It is one of the areas of improvement. For example, under one gigabyte, it works perfectly. Between one and five gigabytes, you might experience some slight performance issues, but they are not significant. Beyond that, you have to index it, tier it, and perform some restore operations to free...
MySQL review

Muzzamil  Hussain
Muzzamil Hussain
Assistant Vice President at National Bank of Pakistan
Native encryption ensures secure data management with a simple deployment
The most valuable feature is the on-premises data encryption facilities. By default, we can provide encryption, and this feature in MySQL is why we prefer it over other databases. The native encryption in MySQL encourages us to use this database model more frequently compared to Oracle and other databases. With Oracle, we have to buy...

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