We performed a comparison between Actian PSQL and Firebird SQL based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about SAP, Oracle, Firebird and others in Embedded Database."Actian PSQL is easy to configure and the performance is affordable."
"I find the ease of deployment to be the most valuable aspect of this solution."
"Firebird SQL is an open-source solution."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is that it is reliable, offers good performance, and is easy to use."
"Robustness is the absolutely main feature."
"I can deploy it on Linux, Mac OS, and Windows — it's very easy."
"The documentation is very well written."
"Firebird SQL is an open-source solution and can run on most operating systems, such as Linux, Unix, and Windows."
"We are happy with the event capabilities of Firebird SQL database. We can raise events from it and display them in our application."
"We need to improve the security options for the on-premise option."
"The solution could improve by providing partitioning and encryption. It is not at the higher level of database solution but it could be with some upgrades."
"It would be good to have more automation and integration with the tools from other vendors."
"It would be interesting if they added functionality with redundancy, reputation, and variability."
"The security of the users could improve in Firebird SQL."
"Firebird SQL's performance has slowed since Firebird SQL 3 or 3.5 versions, where they developed over-the-wire encryption."
"Technical support and performance could be better. We have some problems with this solution, but we don't know if the problem is with the database or the configuration. For example, sometimes, the users can't access the database."
"I don't think the solution is very scalable, because the scalability of the performance when using more than one process is not very good."
"On large databases, we have some difficulties."
Actian PSQL is ranked 8th in Embedded Database with 2 reviews while Firebird SQL is ranked 3rd in Embedded Database with 14 reviews. Actian PSQL is rated 9.0, while Firebird SQL is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Actian PSQL writes "Easy configuration, with affordable pricing, and reliable". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Firebird SQL writes "A stable and freely available tool with well-written documents". Actian PSQL is most compared with , whereas Firebird SQL is most compared with MySQL, PostgreSQL, MariaDB, SQLite and Oracle MySQL Cloud Service.
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