User Reviews of Firebird SQL & MySQL

Updated June 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

Varuns Ug
Varuns Ug
Senior Software Developer at NIT
Reliable transactions have supported secure payments, refunds, and bookings at...
Regarding MySQL improvements, a pain point is horizontal scalability. MySQL scales very well vertically and can support read replicas, but as a system grows significantly, sharding and distributed data management can become complex compared to databases that are designed to scale horizontally from the beginning. This is one of the areas...

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