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Firebird

URL

http://firebirdsql.org

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

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) Functions and apis are mostly backward compatible with kinterbasdb. For complete list of differences, see the documentation in section Differences from KInterbasDB.

URL

http://www.firebirdsql.org/en/python-devel-status/

Svn

http://firebird.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/firebird/python/fdb/

pypi

http://pypi.python.org/pypi/fdb/

Documentation

http://pythonhosted.org/fdb/

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

https://github.com/nakagami/pyfirebirdsql

pypi

http://pypi.python.org/pypi/firebirdsql/

Documentation

http://nakagami.github.com/pyfirebirdsql/

Python versions
2.7 - 3.3

It was tested with cpython , jython, ironpython and pypy

KInterbasdb ( Deprecated and Unmaintained )

URL

http://www.firebirdsql.org/en/python-driver/

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.

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