FirebirdSQL/firebird

Firebird server, client and tools

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Firebird is a relational database offering many ANSI SQL standard features that runs on Linux, Windows, MacOS 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.

The Firebird Project is a commercially independent project of C/C++ programmers, technical advisors and supporters developing and enhancing a multi-platform relational database management system based on the source code released by Inprise Corporation on 25 July, 2000.

Basic information

Documentation

Licensing

The source code is released under variants of the Mozilla Public Licence 1.1 (MPL):

Development

The source code can be found at:
https://github.com/FirebirdSQL/firebird

Build instructions are here: https://www.firebirdsql.org/en/building-the-code/

Bugs and feature requests should be submitted at:
https://github.com/FirebirdSQL/firebird/issues

You may find more details at:
https://www.firebirdsql.org/en/development/

database
dbms
firebird
firebirdsql
rdbms
relational-database
relational-databases
sql

FirebirdSQL/firebird

Firebird server, client and tools

C++

1,472

40,589 commits

updated Oct 14, 2026

See the code

README

Build Status (GitHub) Build Status (AppVeyor) Ask DeepWiki

Firebird README

Firebird is a relational database offering many ANSI SQL standard features that runs on Linux, Windows, MacOS 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.

The Firebird Project is a commercially independent project of C/C++ programmers, technical advisors and supporters developing and enhancing a multi-platform relational database management system based on the source code released by Inprise Corporation on 25 July, 2000.

Basic information

Documentation

Licensing

The source code is released under variants of the Mozilla Public Licence 1.1 (MPL):

Development

The source code can be found at:
https://github.com/FirebirdSQL/firebird

Build instructions are here: https://www.firebirdsql.org/en/building-the-code/

Bugs and feature requests should be submitted at:
https://github.com/FirebirdSQL/firebird/issues

You may find more details at:
https://www.firebirdsql.org/en/development/

database
dbms
firebird
firebirdsql
rdbms
relational-database
relational-databases
sql

Project health

Overall

4.0/10

Maintained

10/10

Code review

1/10
OpenSSF Scorecard

Significant stargazers

Rudi Grinberg

461 followers · starred Jul 2022

Nora Dossche

163 followers · starred Dec 2023

Pavel Artemkin

44 followers · starred Jan 2017

Qi Yu

119 followers · starred Nov 2022