User Reviews of Firebird SQL & MySQL

Updated April 2026

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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

reviewer2599590
Student at a university with 10,001+ employees
Learning projects have benefited from open source flexibility and strong...
MySQL was not scaled up, so I did not use the replication capabilities. I do not think MySQL's data security features were at an industrial level for my project, so I did not make use of them. I was mostly using indexes. I would advise people thinking about using MySQL to look up if the indexing mechanism is useful for their needs and then...

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