We performed a comparison between Firebird SQL and Percona Server based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Oracle, PostgreSQL, MariaDB and others in Open Source Databases."Firebird SQL is an open-source solution."
"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."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is that it is reliable, offers good performance, and is easy to use."
"We are happy with the event capabilities of Firebird SQL database. We can raise events from it and display them in our application."
"The product was easy to use."
"I can deploy it on Linux, Mac OS, and Windows — it's very easy."
"The most valuable feature of Firebird SQL is the creation of databases."
"I like that we don't have to pay external fees to migrate this data. So, we are looking to relocate from Postgres or EDB."
"We find the product mostly stable."
"On large databases, we have some difficulties."
"In the next release, it should support JSON, XML, and replication with third-party tools."
"The security of the users could improve in Firebird SQL."
"It is not easy to integrate the tool with Visual Studio."
"Firebird SQL's performance has slowed since Firebird SQL 3 or 3.5 versions, where they developed over-the-wire encryption."
"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."
"Database sharing is a capability that Firebird SQL lacks."
"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."
"If Percona had flashback capabilities, it would be ideal."
Firebird SQL is ranked 4th in Open Source Databases with 14 reviews while Percona Server is ranked 8th in Open Source Databases with 2 reviews. Firebird SQL is rated 7.8, while Percona Server is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Firebird SQL writes "A stable and freely available tool with well-written documents". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Percona Server writes "Open-source and free to use with a good community". Firebird SQL is most compared with MySQL, PostgreSQL, MariaDB, SQLite and Oracle MySQL Cloud Service, whereas Percona Server is most compared with MariaDB, MySQL, EDB Postgres Advanced Server, PostgreSQL and Oracle MySQL Cloud Service.
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