Firebird SQL Valuable Features
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Stéphane Slusarek
Research and Development Project Manager at Sixense Monitoring
The reliability and ease of management are very valuable. We don't need a team to manage Firebird unlike Oracle or MongoDB. Firebird can be set up simply without needing a lot of people for database management.
View full review »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.
View full review »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.
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June 2025

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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. However, cryptography isn't Firebird's strongest area. While the latest version has built-in cryptography, we're using version 3, which doesn't. It's a valuable feature in the newer versions.
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Werner Hofmann
DevOps · IT at Software Entwicklung
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.
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Enrique Maza
Owner at Ventaja Competitiva
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.
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Sergio Ferreira
Executive Director at Dynamic Tomorrow
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.
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Cedrick ENOH
Operational security at GOS
The most valuable feature of Firebird SQL is the creation of databases.
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Bambara Paterne Michel
Head of IT Department / Oracle DBA at Sonabel
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.
View full review »Firebird SQL is an open-source solution and can run on most operating systems, such as Linux, Unix, and Windows.
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Rafael Liriano
Co-founder at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
I like Firebird because it's very lightweight. It's very light and powerful. I can do everything that I can with MS SQL Server, and Oracle — I can do the same things with Firebird. It has some very interesting features. For example, I can update and insert with one statement. The deployment is very easy. I can deploy it on Linux, Mac OS, and Windows — it's very easy.
Also, the integration capabilities are great.
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Ossama Benaziz
Operations Director at ALTERSIS Performance
It helps us in detecting all kinds of problems in the code, such as bad quality, unclear code, or any violation in the code or best practices.
The solution is very useful for stock management.
The solution has worked perfectly; I've never run into issues or had to reach out to technical support for troubleshooting.
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Ceotriv67
CEO at a tech vendor with 11-50 employees
I find the ease of deployment to be the most valuable aspect of this solution.
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June 2025

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