Firebird SQL pros and cons

Vendor: Firebird

3.9 out of 5

14 reviews
85% willing to recommend

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Firebird SQL Pros review quotes

Nicolae Ancuta

Retail Solution & BI Manager at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Jun 22, 2023

We are happy with the event capabilities of Firebird SQL database. We can raise events from it and display them in our application.

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Ruben Conti

Owner at Intersoftware sas

Jan 24, 2024

Robustness is the absolutely main feature.

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Doug Meuross

Strategic Advisor at TradeWindow

Aug 18, 2023

The most valuable feature of the solution is that it is reliable, offers good performance, and is easy to use.

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reviewer1991775

Chapter Lead at a financial services firm with 201-500 employees

Mar 19, 2024

Firebird SQL is an open-source solution.

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Enrique Maza

Owner at Ventaja Competitiva

Jun 20, 2023

The documentation is very well written.

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reviewer824187

DBA at a consultancy with 201-500 employees

Dec 9, 2019

The solution is very useful for stock management.

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Ceotriv67

CEO at a tech vendor with 11-50 employees

Sep 5, 2019

I find the ease of deployment to be the most valuable aspect of this solution.

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Werner Hofmann

DevOps · IT at Software Entwicklung

Nov 16, 2023

The product was easy to use.

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Ossama Benaziz

Operations Director at ALTERSIS Performance

Sep 16, 2020

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.

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Sergio Ferreira

Executive Director at Dynamic Tomorrow

Aug 10, 2022

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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Firebird SQL Cons review quotes

Nicolae Ancuta

Retail Solution & BI Manager at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Jun 22, 2023

On large databases, we have some difficulties.

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Ruben Conti

Owner at Intersoftware sas

Jan 24, 2024

The main feature I expect is to be able to work with different databases at the same time because that's a wishlist item for me.

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Doug Meuross

Strategic Advisor at TradeWindow

Aug 18, 2023

Database sharing is a capability that Firebird SQL lacks.

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reviewer1991775

Chapter Lead at a financial services firm with 201-500 employees

Mar 19, 2024

Firebird SQL's performance has slowed since Firebird SQL 3 or 3.5 versions, where they developed over-the-wire encryption.

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Enrique Maza

Owner at Ventaja Competitiva

Jun 20, 2023

It would be nice to have a graphical user interface to handle the product.

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reviewer824187

DBA at a consultancy with 201-500 employees

Dec 9, 2019

It would be interesting if they added functionality with redundancy, reputation, and variability.

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Ceotriv67

CEO at a tech vendor with 11-50 employees

Sep 5, 2019

I don't think the solution is very scalable, because the scalability of the performance when using more than one process is not very good.

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Werner Hofmann

DevOps · IT at Software Entwicklung

Nov 16, 2023

It is not easy to integrate the tool with Visual Studio.

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Ossama Benaziz

Operations Director at ALTERSIS Performance

Sep 16, 2020

It would be good to have more automation and integration with the tools from other vendors.

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Sergio Ferreira

Executive Director at Dynamic Tomorrow

Aug 10, 2022

This solution isn't very user-friendly, or intuitive, which could be improved when it is developed.

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