Firebird脱胎于Borland公司的开源版数据库Interbase6.0，是一个完全非商业化的产品，用C和C++开发。由于与interbase的血缘关系，大部分interbase的开发工具可以直接应用到Firebird开发中。
Firebird使用Mozilla Public License v.1.1许可证发行。
这次版本的新特性包括:
A thorough reworking of indexing to ramp up performance and minimize bottlenecks in searching and matching
Several limitations inherited from the legacy code have now gone, such as the 252-byte limit on index size and the 30 Gb limit on table size
A new interface for plugging in international character sets, including enhanced Unicode support, along with a number of new and corrected collations
64-bit platform support with released binaries available for AMD64 and Intel EM64T on Linux. Windows 64-bit builds are ready for testing and will follow in a sub-release
An intense makeover of server security, including beefed-up password encryption and inbuilt protection for brute-force attack
Support for SQL200x derived tables, including multi-level nesting and joining of subqueries
EXECUTE BLOCK syntax to enable blocks of procedural SQL (PSQL) to be executed in dynamic SQL statements
Explicit cursors in PSQL, also available inside EXECUTE BLOCK statements
Optional WAIT lock conflict timeout, available as both a SET TRANSACTION argument and as a transaction parameter in the API
All-new incremental backup capability
Complete re-architecting of "serverless" local connection protocol on Windows to eliminate the inherent instability of the legacy IPServer protocol
Fully completed implementation of the Services API on all platforms
官方站点:
www.firebirdsql.org
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