Firebird RDBMS Downloads
If you are new to Firebird, please read the notes below before downloading.
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Windows Vista CAUTION
If you are installing onto Windows Vista, the installer option to install the Control Panel applet
must be DISABLED to avoid having it break the
Control Panel on your Vista system.
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Last of the 1.5 Series
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Unsupported, still available:
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Choice of server architecture
First you need to choose a Firebird server architecture. There are two models: the classic and the super server architecture. The super server is the main architecture for Microsoft win32 platforms (classic architecture is available on Win32 only from v1.5 onward). Unix style environments often have a choice of both the classic or super architecture. If you are unsure start with the classic architecture which is a little easier to experiment with and to learn the basics. Then once you know more you will be able to determine which architecture is best for your installation. From a functional point of view both are equivalent and they are interchangable.
Classic
The classic architecture allows for programs to directly open the database file. It is architected to allow the same database to be opened by several programs at once. The classic engine also allows remote connections to local databases by providing an inetd or xinetd service (This spawns a seperate task per user connection).
Super Server
The super server architecture provides a server process, and client process cannot directly open the database file and all SQL requests are done via the server using a socket. The super server makes use of lightweight theads to process the requests.
For more technical details and information about differences between Classic and SuperServer, please refer to this article published by IBPhoenix.
Supported platforms
Currently our main supported platforms are 32-bit Windows, Linux (i586 and higher, and x64 for Firebird 2.0 on Linux), Solaris (Sparc and Intel), HP-UX (PA-Risc),
FreeBSD and MacOS X.
Main development is done on Windows and Linux, so all new releases are usually offered first for these platforms, followed by other platforms after few days (or weeks).
Some Firebird 1.0 builds are also available for WinCE and AIX.
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