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Firebird

URL

https://firebirdsql.org

licence
Interbase Public License, Initial Developer Public License
platforms
Unix, Win 32/x64, Mac OS X

Pros


DB API 2.0 Drivers

Python 2.x-3.x Driver (Official Stable)

Pure python ctypes based driver (fbclient library is required) is located in svn repository (All official driver development is done in this repository) In addition to feature set of the standard Python DB API, fdb also exposes nearly the entire native client API of the database engine, including two-phase commit, server-side events, and an administrative API.

URL

https://firebirdsql.org/en/python-driver/

GIT

https://github.com/FirebirdSQL/fdb

pypi

https://pypi.python.org/pypi/fdb/

Documentation

https://pythonhosted.org/fdb/

Python versions
2.7 - 3.x

It was tested with cpython

Pure Python 3.x Driver

New pure python 3.x driver (no C compiler needed or fbclient library) development is located on github repository

URL

https://github.com/nakagami/pyfirebirdsql

pypi

https://pypi.python.org/pypi/firebirdsql/

Documentation

https://nakagami.github.com/pyfirebirdsql/

Python versions
3.x

It was tested with cpython , jython, ironpython and pypy


2026-02-14 16:08