Firebird 2.5.5

Firebird is a relational database offering many ANSI SQL standard features that runs on Linux, Windows, and a variety of Unix platforms. Firebird offers excellent concurrency, high performance, and powerful language support for stored procedures and triggers.

Firebird is a fully featured and powerful RDBMS. It can handle databases from just a few KB to many Gigabytes with good performance and almost free of maintenance!

• Below is a list of some of the Firebird's major features:
• Full support of Stored Procedures and Triggers
• Full ACID compliant transactions
• Referential Integrity
• Multi Generational Architecture
• Very small footprint
• Fully featured internal language for Stored Procedures and Triggers (PSQL)
• Support for External Functions (UDFs)
• Little or no need for specialized DBAs
• Almost no configuration needed
• Large user community
• Optional single file embedded version
• Dozens of third party tools
• Careful writes - fast recovery, no need for transaction logs!
• Many ways to access your database
• Native support for all major operating systems
• Incremental Backups
• 64bits builds available
• Full cursor implementation in PSQL
• Monitoring tables
• Connection and Transaction Triggers
• Temporary Tables

Win32

Win64

Linux x86

Linux AMD64

Mac OS X

Release Date	File Name	Size	Description
Sources
November 18, 2015	Firebird-2.5.5.26952-0.tar.bz2	14 MB	Compressed tarball
Win32
32-bit Classic, Superclassic & Superserver
November 18, 2015	Firebird-2.5.5.26952_0_Win32.exe	7 MB	Windows executable installer for full Superclassic/Classic or Superserver, recommended for first-time users
November 18, 2015	Firebird-2.5.5.26952-0_Win32.zip	11 MB	Zip kit for manual/custom installs of Superclassic/Classic or Superserver
32-bit Embedded
November 18, 2015	Firebird-2.5.5.26952-0_Win32_embed.zip	4 MB	Embedded, separate download, zip kit. Custom installation required, read the Guide!
32-bit Debug Kits (Binary + PDB components)
November 18, 2015	Firebird-2.5.5.26952_0_Win32_pdb.exe	12 MB	Full Superclassic/Classic or Superserver, installer kit
November 18, 2015	Firebird-2.5.5.26952-0_Win32_pdb.zip	19 MB	Full Superclassic/Classic or Superserver, zip kit
November 18, 2015	Firebird-2.5.5.26952-0_Win32_embed_pdb.zip	8 MB	Embedded, separate download, zip kit
Win64
64-bit Classic, Superclassic & Superserver
November 18, 2015	Firebird-2.5.5.26952_0_x64.exe	10 MB	Windows executable installer for full Superclassic/Classic or Superserver, recommended for first-time users
November 18, 2015	Firebird-2.5.5.26952-0_x64.zip	12 MB	Zip kit for manual/custom installs of Superclassic/Classic or Superserver
64-bit Embedded
November 18, 2015	Firebird-2.5.5.26952-0_x64_embed.zip	5 MB	Embedded, separate download, zip kit. Custom installation required, read the Guide!
64-bit Debug Kits (Binary + PDB components)
November 18, 2015	Firebird-2.5.5.26952_0_x64_pdb.exe	16 MB	Full Superclassic/Classic or Superserver, installer kit
November 18, 2015	Firebird-2.5.5.26952-0_x64_pdb.zip	21 MB	Full Superclassic/Classic or Superserver, zip kit
November 18, 2015	Firebird-2.5.5.26952-0_x64_embed_pdb.zip	9 MB	Embedded, separate download, zip kit
Linux x86
IMPORTANT: Note affecting all Linux builds The recommended Linux kernel version is 2.6.34 and glibc should be version 2.12 or higher. Minimum - kernel 2.6.27 and glibc 2.7. If your glibc version is lower than v.2.7, it must be upgraded before using Firebird 2.5 Classic/Superсlassic.
32-bit Classic, Superclassic & Embedded
November 18, 2015	FirebirdCS-2.5.5.26952-0.i686.rpm	8 MB	Superclassic/Classic server, RPM kit
November 18, 2015	FirebirdCS-2.5.5.26952-0.i686.tar.gz	7 MB	Superclassic/Classic server, compressed tarball
November 18, 2015	FirebirdCS-debuginfo-2.5.5.26952-0.i686.tar.gz	35 MB	Debug Build, Superclassic/Classic server, compressed tarball
32-bit Superserver
November 18, 2015	FirebirdSS-2.5.5.26952-0.i686.rpm	7 MB	Superserver, RPM kit
November 18, 2015	FirebirdSS-2.5.5.26952-0.i686.tar.gz	7 MB	Superserver, compressed tarball
November 18, 2015	FirebirdSS-debuginfo-2.5.5.26952-0.i686.tar.gz	35 MB	Debug Build, Superserver, compressed tarball
Linux AMD64
IMPORTANT: Note affecting all Linux builds The recommended Linux kernel version is 2.6.34 and glibc should be version 2.12 or higher. Minimum - kernel 2.6.27 and glibc 2.7. If your glibc version is lower than v.2.7, it must be upgraded before using Firebird 2.5 Classic/Superсlassic.
64-bit Classic, Superclassic & Embedded
November 18, 2015	FirebirdCS-2.5.5.26952-0.amd64.rpm	7 MB	Superclassic/Classic server, RPM kit
November 18, 2015	FirebirdCS-2.5.5.26952-0.amd64.tar.gz	7 MB	Superclassic/Classic server, compressed tarball
November 18, 2015	FirebirdCS-debuginfo-2.5.5.26952-0.amd64.tar.gz	35 MB	Debug Build, Superclassic/Classic server, compressed tarball
64-bit Superserver
November 18, 2015	FirebirdSS-2.5.5.26952-0.amd64.rpm	7 MB	Superserver, RPM kit
November 18, 2015	FirebirdSS-2.5.5.26952-0.amd64.tar.gz	7 MB	Superserver, compressed tarball
November 18, 2015	FirebirdSS-debuginfo-2.5.5.26952-0.amd64.tar.gz	35 MB	Debug Build, Superserver, compressed tarball
Mac OS X
NOTE: Mac OS X users should be aware that Firebird 2.5 will run only on Mac OS X 10.7 or higher versions. If you want to use an earlier version of OS X you will need to use an earlier version of Firebird. "lipo" are the 64-bit Firebird Server with client libs as fat lib (32 and 64 bits). See here for examples.
Mac OS X 64-bit Classic, Superclassic & Embedded (Intel)
November 19, 2015	FirebirdCS-2.5.5-26952-x86_64.pkg	7 MB	64-bit package
November 19, 2015	FirebirdCS-2.5.5-26952-lipo-x86_64.pkg	11 MB	64-bit Lipo package
Mac OS X 64-bit Superserver (Intel)
November 19, 2015	FirebirdSS-2.5.5-26952-x86_64.pkg	7 MB	64-bit package
November 19, 2015	FirebirdSS-2.5.5-26952-lipo-x86_64.pkg	10 MB	64-bit Lipo package
Mac OS X 32-bit
November 19, 2015	FirebirdCS-2.5.5-26952-i386.pkg	7 MB	Mac OS X 10.6+ 32-bit Classic, Superclassic & Embedded (Intel) package, compressed
November 19, 2015	FirebirdSS-2.5.5-26952-i386.pkg	7 MB	Mac OS X 32-bit Superserver (Intel) package, compressed