Firebird SQL Reviews

I use the database for accounting and other records for the bank.

The solution works fine. The documentation is very well written. It has helped me a lot. I've built a small program to manage the condominium I live in. It is being updated by people who seem to be very interested in making it a first-class tool. I've seen it improve over time since I've been using it.

My company uses its own software for accounting purposes. My company also has around 300 clients using our software, which uses Firebird SQL as a database. My company has software for the international logistics industry, so we use Firebird SQL in our company.

We are happy with the event capabilities of Firebird SQL database. We can raise events from it and display them in our application.

We are also happy about the transactional features of the database. Moreover, it is pretty easy to maintain, but in some cases, when dealing with a large amount of data, up to 15 gigabytes, it is a little slow. Maintaining the database becomes harder. 

However, if we use it within a comfortable database size, we are very satisfied because we are employing it in a non-critical but twenty-four-hour solution. So, overall, we are pretty happy with it.

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 up space. It requires some effort, but it's manageable. It's quite challenging for the customer.

Moreover, migrating from one firewall solution to another was a little bit difficult regarding the backup and restoring the other one. Since we have many databases, we didn't go forward with the latest versions.

We are working on monitoring software that involves making a lot of measurements with sensors. We store all the data in Firebird, which is why we use It primarily for data storage.

It's difficult to describe how it has improved our organization because we have been using Firebird for a very long time, and for us, it's normal to use Firebird. We have adapted to it, and it aids us efficiently.

We use Firebird SQL as a database to hold our customer or patient data.

We chose InterBase for our main database around 20 years ago. InterBase is a proprietary software by Embarcadero. Firebird SQL is an open-source solution. Firebird SQL is very similar to InterBase, and we wanted to choose an open-source solution. Transferring data from InterBase to Firebird SQL eight to ten years ago was easy.

We use it for ERP solutions and enterprise solutions, like ERP, PLM, Ness, and other kinds of applications.

I use whatever's needed for enterprise applications, like ERP or anything related to data in an enterprise. We also make it for hospitals and for any situation where we need relational information. Firebird is perfect for all of them.

The biggest benefit is being open-source. It gives us great flexibility and usability.

I have built some applications with the solution. I am an end-user in a network environment.

The product was easy to use. We didn’t have any problems with maintenance. We had only one or two problems with the database the whole time, but we could restart it. It didn't need a lot of resources. It performed well.

I use this product as a zero-administration, embedded database.

I appreciate the fact that, once the database is embedded, it doesn't need to be administered, and removes the requirement for a specific server.