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
http://www.firebirdsql.org/file/documentation/drivers_documentation/python/3.3.0/index.html
- licence
- BSD-like
- platforms
- Unix, win32
- Python versions
- 2.6 - 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.
Python 2.x-3.x Driver (kinterbasdb replacement)
New python 3.x driver (fbclient library is required) is located in svn repository (All official future driver development will be done in this repository) Functions and apis are backward compatible with kinterbase only renamed to fdb (replace all kinterbasdb functions with fdb ones)
- URL
http://firebird.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/firebird/python/fdb/
- pypi
- Documentation
http://www.firebirdsql.org/file/documentation/drivers_documentation/python/3.3.0/index.html
- Python versions
- 2.7 - 3.3
It was tested with cpython
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)
- URL
- pypi
- Documentation
- Python versions
- 2.7 - 3.3
It was tested with cpython , jython, ironpython and pypy