Firebird (database server)

Relational database management system FirebirdScreenshot Original authorBorlandDeveloperFirebird FoundationRelease2000 (2000)Stable release5.0.4 / 17 April 2026; 5 months ago (17 April 2026)Preview releaseFirebird 5.0 Release Candidate 1 / 26.09.2023 Written inC++, COperating systemCross-platformPlatformIA-32, x86-64TypeRDBMSLicenseIPL, IDPLWebsitefirebirdsql.org Repositorygithub.com/FirebirdSQL Firebird is an open-source SQL relational database management system that supports Linux, Microsoft Windows, macOS and other Unix platforms. The database forked from Borland's open source edition of InterBase in 2000 but the code has been largely rewritten since Firebird 1.5. History Within a week of the InterBase 6.0 source being released by Borland on 25 July 2000, the Firebird project was created on SourceForge. Firebird 1.0 was released for Linux, Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X on 11 March 2002, with ports to Solaris, FreeBSD 4, HP-UX over the next two months. Work on porting the codebase from C to C++ began in 2000. On 23 February 2004, Firebird 1.5 was released, which was the first stable release of the new codebase. Version 1.5 featured an improved query optimizer, SQL-92 conditional