What are the vital features of Firebird that makes it powerful database?

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latikab

  • Oct 4th, 2007
 

Following are the Firebird Maestro features:


Support for all Firebird versions from 1.0 to 2.0
Easy database management
Particular database object management
User-friendly interface
Building and executing queries
Original security management
Database designer
Powerful BLOB viewer/editor
Data export module
Data import module

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latikab

  • Oct 4th, 2007
 

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 - just install and start using!
Big community and lots of places where you can get free and good support
Optional single file embedded version - great to create CDROM catalogs, single user or evaluation versions of applications
Dozens of third party tools, including GUI administrative tools, replication tools, etc.
Careful writes - fast recovery, no need for transaction logs!
Many ways to access your database: native/API, dbExpress drivers, ODBC, OLEDB, .Net provider, JDBC native type 4 driver, Python module, PHP, Perl, etc.
Native support for all major operating systems, including Windows, Linux, Solaris, MacOS.
Incremental Backups
64bits builds available
Full cursor implementation in PSQL

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