10 Years of Firebird DBMS I have been using it since 2002. It’s rock-solid, small-footprint, lean and mean database. And it’s completely free. No dual-licensing crap like MySQL, no crippleware like Microsoft or Oracle Express editions. Not mention 2MB embedded engine with x-copy deployment (just copy a few DLLs alongside your EXE and you’re good to go). And, without any changes to the applications, it scales to 10 GB databases (largest I tried myself, reportedly, there are much larger ones out there). Imagine a world where DBMS download is a few megabytes and install is a few seconds… Well, do not dream, try Firebird and see it for yourself. Once you get used to that, other DBMS will look like bloatware.

10 Years of Firebird DBMS

I have been using it since 2002. It’s rock-solid, small-footprint,
lean and mean database. And it’s completely free. No dual-licensing
crap like MySQL, no crippleware like Microsoft or Oracle Express
editions.

Not mention 2MB embedded engine with x-copy deployment (just copy a
few DLLs alongside your EXE and you’re good to go). And, without any
changes to the applications, it scales to 10 GB databases (largest I
tried myself, reportedly, there are much larger ones out there).

Imagine a world where DBMS download is a few megabytes and install is
a few seconds…

Well, do not dream, try Firebird and see it for yourself. Once you get
used to that, other DBMS will look like bloatware.

  1. Date Posted Icon 15th March 2010
    2. Tags Icon #firebird