Firebird
- URL
- 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
- Documentation
- 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.