Project Summary
Firebird is a relational database offering many ANSI/ISO SQL standard features that runs on Linux, Windows, and a variety of Unix platforms. Firebird offers excellent concurrency, high performance, and powerful language support for stored procedures and triggers. It has been used in production systems, under a variety of names, since 1981.
Firebird is a commercially independent project of C++ programmers, technical advisors and supporters developing and enhancing a multi-platform relational database management system based on the source code released by Inprise Corp (now known as Borland Software Corp) on 25 July, 2000.
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In a Nutshell, Firebird...
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has a well established, mature codebase
maintained by a very large development team
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took an estimated 387 years of effort (COCOMO model)
starting with its first commit in May, 2001
ending with its most recent commit 3 days ago
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