Firebird 2.5 Beta 1

Firebird is a relational database offering many ANSI SQL standard features that runs on Linux, Windows, and a variety of Unix platforms. Firebird offers excellent concurrency, high performance, and powerful language support for stored procedures and triggers.

Firebird is a fully featured and powerful RDBMS. It can handle databases from just a few KB to many Gigabytes with good performance and almost free of maintenance!

Below is a list of some of the Firebird's major features:

• Full support of Stored Procedures and Triggers
• Full ACID compliant transactions
• Referential Integrity
• Multi Generational Architecture
• Very small footprint
• Fully featured internal language for Stored Procedures and Triggers (PSQL)
• Support for External Functions (UDFs)
• Little or no need for specialized DBAs
• Almost no configuration needed
• Large user community
• Optional single file embedded version
• Dozens of third party tools
• Careful writes - fast recovery, no need for transaction logs!
• Many ways to access your database
• Native support for all major operating systems
• Incremental Backups
• 64bits builds available
• Full cursor implementation in PSQL
• Monitoring tables
• Connection and Transaction Triggers
• Temporary Tables