Firebird is a relational database offering many ansi sql-99 features that runs on linux, windows, and a variety of unix platforms. firebird offers excellent concurrency, high performance, and powerful language support for stored procedures and triggers. it has been used on production systems under a variety of names since 1981.

the "super" architecture uses separate threads to handle each connection. it has its advantages (eg: is usually faster and more efficient for large numbers of clients) but is unable to use more that one cpu on an smp system and under some circumstances a client may crash all server threads.

this package contains the 2.0 branch of firebird.

firebird is a commercially independent project of c and c++ programmers, technical advisors and supporters developing and enhancing a multi-platform relational database management system based on the source code released by inprise corp (now known as borland software corp) under the interbase public license v.1.0 on 25 july, 2000.