Firebird
- URL
- licence
- Interbase Public License, Initial Developer Public License
- platforms
- Unix, Win 32/x64, Mac OS
Pros
- Powerful and stable cross-platform database
- Extensive SQL standards support
Python driver binary distribution available for : Windows ,Fedora , Debian, Ubuntu (in official repository) , but you can to compile for other platforms : here is the Howto install it on ubuntu from source.
DB API 2.0 Drivers
KInterbasdb
- URL
- Documentation
- licence
- BSD-like
- platforms
- Unix, win32
- Python versions
- 2.4 - 2.7
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.
Pure Python 3.x Driver
New pure python 3.x driver (no C compiler needed or fbclient library) is located in new github repository (All the future driver development will be done in this repository)