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 : Mageia (Fedora , FreeBSD will come soon) but you can to compile and install easily for other platforms : here is the Howto install it on ubuntu with pip.
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) Functions and apis are mostly backward compatible with kinterbasdb. For complete list of differences, see the documentation in section Differences from KInterbasDB.
- URL
- Svn
http://firebird.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/firebird/python/fdb/
- pypi
- Documentation
- 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) development is located on github repository
- URL
- pypi
- Documentation
- Python versions
- 2.7 - 3.3
It was tested with cpython , jython, ironpython and pypy
KInterbasdb ( Deprecated and Unmaintained )
- 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.