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Firebird

URL: http://firebirdsql.org
licence: Interbase Public License, Initial Developer Public License
platforms: Unix, win32, Mac OS

Pros

Before the native version of PostgreSQL for Windows was released, Firebird was regarded by some as the most powerful and the most stable cross-platform database.

Cons

Web site is hopeless.[work in progress]

DB API 2.0 Drivers

KInterbasdb

URL: http://www.firebirdsql.org/index.php?op=devel&sub=python
Documentation: http://www.firebirdsql.org/devel/python/docs/3.3.0/a
licence: BSD-like
platforms: Unix, win32
Python versions: 2.5 - 2.6

Extensions to DB API

In addition to the minimal feature set of the standard Python DB API, KInterbasDB also exposes nearly the entire native client API of the database engine, including two-phase commit, server-side events, and an administrative API.

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-  URL:: http://firebird.sourceforge.net/
  licence:: Interbase Public License
  platforms:: Unix, win32
+  URL:: http://firebirdsql.org
  licence:: Interbase Public License, Initial Developer Public License
  platforms:: Unix, win32, Mac OS

== Pros ==

 * Before the native version of PostgreSQL for Windows was released, Firebird was regarded by some as the most powerful and the most stable cross-platform database.

== Cons ==

 * Web site is hopeless.[work in progress]
 

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-  URL:: http://kinterbasdb.sourceforge.net/
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  Documentation:: http://www.firebirdsql.org/devel/python/docs/3.3.0/a
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== Supported Python Applications ==

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+In addition to the minimal feature set of the standard Python DB API, KInterbasDB also exposes nearly the entire native client API of the database engine, including two-phase commit, server-side events, and an administrative API.

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