Firebird Project releases new version of its RDBMS

NEW DELHI: The FireBird Project has officially announced the availability of version 2.0 of its open source Firebird relational database software.

Result of more than two years' efforts from a community of dedicated developers and supporters, Firebird 2.0 offers a large collection of enhancements that can significantly improve performance, security and support for international languages and realise new SQL language features. It also provides a robust code platform from which the re-architecting planned for Firebird 3.0 is proceeding.

Firebird is a commercially independent project of C and C++ programmers, technical advisors and supporters developing and enhancing a multi-platform relational database management system based on the source code released by Inprise Corp (now known as Borland Software Corp) on 25 July, 2000 under the InterBase Public License v.1.0, informed the Firebird website.

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

It has been used in production systems, under a variety of names since 1981.

Firebird 2.0 offers,

• 64-bit platform support with released binaries available for AMD64 and Intel EM64T on Linux
• Better server security, including beefed-up password encryption and inbuilt protection for brute-force attack
• Support for SQL200x derived tables, including multi-level nesting and joining of subqueries
• EXECUTE BLOCK syntax to enable blocks of procedural SQL (PSQL) to be executed in dynamic SQL statements

For details on Firebird 2.0 features, click here .