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.

this package contains the client library required to connect to firebird. it works with either "super-server" or "classic" variants, as well as with commercial interbase servers.

it uses tcp to connect to the server and is tread-safe.

for direct (non-tcp) database access, see libfbembed2.5.