User Reviews of Firebird SQL & MySQL

Updated September 2025

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Firebird SQL review

Ruben Conti
Ruben Conti
Owner at Intersoftware sas
Offers good performance for up to a hundred end users, open source and easy to setup
Firebird can compete with well-known names like Oracle and SQL Server when you don't have more than a few hundred thousand users. It's a level below SQL Server, and the application of SQL is a kind of database you can rely on for situations where you don't have too much information to deal with. For example, you can use it for the internet...
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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