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The IBPhoenix Firebird Developer Pack is a comprehensive set of tools for professional Firebird database application development, maintenance and management.
The Firebird Developer Pack includes:
- The Powerful Firebird database engine: free to use, with unlimited free deployment
- Tools for database application development and management
- Tools for database monitoring and optimization
- Tools for database recovery and maintenance
- Replication tools
- Database connectivity: .NET (with Visual Studio integration), Delphi/C++Builder, ODBC, JDBC, PHP, Ruby On Rails, Python, Perl, C++
- Flexible reporting solution
- A comprehensive documentation set for Firebird
- Free 30-days installation support is also included!
About Firebird
The open source Firebird® relational database management system performs excellently and scales impressively, from an embedded, single-user model to enterprise-wide deployments with multiple 200+Gb databases running with hundreds of simultaneous clients.
Firebird supports a number of hardware and software platforms: Windows, Linux, MacOS, HP-UX, AIX, Solaris and more. It runs on at x386, x64 and PowerPC, Sparc and other hardware platforms, and supports an easy migration mechanism between these platforms.
One of the key Firebird features is its multi-generational architecture, which enables the development and support of hybrid OLTP and OLAP applications. This makes a Firebird database capable of serving simultaneously as both an analytical and an operational data store, because readers do not block writers when accessing the same data under most conditions.
Firebird supports stored procedures and triggers, and has comprehensive SQL92 support. It is supported by numerous database connectivity options. High compatibility with industry standards on many fronts makes Firebird the obvious choice for developing interoperable applications for homogeneous and hybrid environments.
Professional installation and technical support, optimization and emergency recovery services for Firebird, as well as worldwide training, are available from IBPhoenix, the main commercial technical support company behind Firebird development.
The mix of high performance, small footprint, supreme scalability, silent and simple installation and 100% royalty-free deployment make Firebird a highly attractive choice for all types of software developers and vendors.
Developer tools
The Firebird Developer Pack contains a sophisticated graphical tool to design, develop, and maintain your Firebird databases (Database Workbench for Firebird), including the creation and maintenance of stored procedures and triggers, with debugging, along with SQL profiling and testing.
There is also a comprehensive set of maintenance tools, including monitoring software (Firebird Transaction Monitor), a database and statistics analyzer to find and solve performance problems (FBAnalyst) and a recovery suite (FBFirstAID, BackupSurgeon and Undelete).
For automatic backup and restore TimeToBackup is included.
Flexible replication for distributed databases is covered by IBReplicator.
Database connectivity is available for developers in Visual Studio (.NET), Java , Delphi/C++Builder, ODBC and native C++ and also for the most popular script languages (PHP, Perl, Ruby On Rails, Python).
A Reporting solution (FastReport Firebird Edition) supports all versions of Delphi, C++ Builder and Kylix.
The documentation set covers the most important topics of Firebird development, deployment and maintenance and includes several guides that highlight the key areas for developers approaching Firebird database development for the first time.
Summary
The IBPhoenix Firebird® Developer Pack brings a new level of quality to the world of open-source databases whilst upholding the Firebird database principles of free development and deployment. It comprises all the professional tools and information that a developer could need to take advantage of Firebird's many unique capabilities and develop applications that are well-performing, robust, and secure.
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