Published February 6th, 2003 by Jim O'Halloran
Firebird (Open Source Database)
Linux World Australia has in article on Firebird. Firebird rose from the ashes of Borland’s Interbase, and sounds promising.
How does it differ to PostgreSQL and MYSQL?
They are all different to one another. PostgreSQL and Firebird tend to have roughly the same catchment - scalable client/server. MySQL has its niche as a back-end to read-mostly Web application servers. Firebird is extremely well supported with data connectivity components, which is important to developers using the Borland integrated development tools on Linux and Windows. It’s very robust and easy to administer, which is important to sys admins who like to sleep at home and go sailing at the weekend. It’s also truly cross-platform - you create a backup on one platform and restore it to any other.
I’ll be sure to look at it when I’m choosing a Linux database back ends.