Download Firebird 3.0.0

Well-known databases for storing large amounts of data are of course Oracle’s database, IBM’s DB2 database and Microsoft’s SQL Server. Another database management system is Firebird, which originates from Inprise’s Interbase database. Inprise is known today as Borland Software, whose history dates back to this page can be read. This relational database can be installed on a variety of operating systems, including Linux and Windows platforms, making it widely deployable. Version 3.0.0 of Firebird has been released and the announcement of that release can be found below

Firebird 3.0 has been released

The primary goals for Firebird 3.0 were to unify the server architecture and to improve support for SMP and multiple-core hardware platforms. Parallel objectives were to improve threading of engine processes and the options for sharing page cache across thread and connection boundaries.

Alongside these aims came new strategies to improve performance, query optimization, monitoring and scalability and to address the demand for more security options. A number of popular features were introduced into the SQL language, including the long-awaited support for the Boolean data type and the associated logical predications.

Read the Press Release for more information. Please refer to the Release Notes for the full list of changes. Binary kits for Windows and Linux on both 32-bit and 64-bit platforms are immediately available for Download. MacOS X and other platforms will follow.