Firebird (database Server) - Main Features

Main Features

  • Full support for stored procedures and triggers
  • Full ACID compliant transactions
  • Referential integrity
  • Multi Generational Architecture (sometimes called MVCC)
  • Support for External Functions (UDFs)
  • SQL activity can send asynchronous notification events to clients
  • Third party tools, including GUI administrative tools and replication tools
  • Careful writes - fast recovery, no need for transaction logs
  • Many access methods: native/API, dbExpress drivers, ODBC, OLEDB, .Net provider, JDBC native type 4 driver, Python module, PHP, Perl
  • Incremental backups
  • Full cursor implementation in PSQL

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