Firebird SQL Room for Improvement

Doug Meuross - PeerSpot reviewer
Strategic Advisor at TradeWindow

Database sharing is a capability that Firebird SQL lacks. With database sharing, we can split the database into different machines. Database sharing is a functionality I would like to see in the solution, especially when implementing it at very large sites.

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EM
Owner at Ventaja Competitiva

It would be nice to have a graphical user interface to handle the product. A lot of databases have it. I don't think Firebird has it. I use the ISQL directly. It's fine for me. However, it takes a while when you're creating databases and stuff. It would be helpful.

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Nicolae Ancuta - PeerSpot reviewer
Retail Solution & BI Manager at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

On large databases, we have some difficulties. It is one of the areas of improvement. For example, under one gigabyte, it works perfectly. Between one and five gigabytes, you might experience some slight performance issues, but they are not significant. Beyond that, you have to index it, tier it, and perform some restore operations to free up space. It requires some effort, but it's manageable. It's quite challenging for the customer.

Moreover, migrating from one firewall solution to another was a little bit difficult regarding the backup and restoring the other one. Since we have many databases, we didn't go forward with the latest versions.

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Ruben Conti - PeerSpot reviewer
Owner at Intersoftware sas

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. Part of the wishlist.

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

Firebird SQL's performance has slowed since Firebird SQL 3 or 3.5 versions, where they developed over-the-wire encryption. I wouldn't recommend the solution to others for performance. The solution should add some monitoring features for the database. Firebird SQL should add the just-in-time dumps and journaling feature if it doesn't already have them.

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WH
DevOps · IT at Software Entwicklung

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

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CE
Operational security at GOS

The security of the users could improve in Firebird SQL.

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SF
Executive Director at Dynamic Tomorrow

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

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BP
Head of IT Department / Oracle DBA at Sonabel

Technical support and performance could be better. We have some problems with this solution, but we don't know if the problem is with the database or the configuration. For example, sometimes, the users can't access the database.

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SB
DBA at a consultancy with 201-500 employees

I've never had any issues with the solution, so I can't think of any improvements it would need.

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

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Ruben Conti - PeerSpot reviewer
Owner at Intersoftware sas

The solution could improve by providing partitioning and encryption. It is not at the higher level of database solution but it could be with some upgrades.

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OB
Operations Director at ALTERSIS Performance

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

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TV
CEO at a tech vendor with 11-50 employees

I think the performance and features of the program can be improved. The scalability of the performance when using more than one process is not so good. I would also like more or better security.

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RL
Co-founder at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

There aren't a lot of people using this solution — it's not very popular in the marketplace. It's been around for 21 years, but not many people have heard of it.

In the next release, it should support JSON, XML, and replication with third-party tools.

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