FBSimCity, the explorable isometric city of Firebird internals, is at v0.9.0 — and this one adds the thing the project has been circling since it started. The city has always carried the same caveat: it is a model, it parses no SQL, and no
Electric Firebird (mariuz/electric-firebird on GitHub) compiles the Firebird database engine to WebAssembly, following the same approach PGlite took for PostgreSQL. The goal is to let Firebird run both server-side (Node.js) and fully client…
Firebird's client library, libfbclient / fbclient.dll, has always been distributed exclusively as a shared library. PR #9104 by Adriano dos Santos Fernandes, merged into the Firebird source tree on July 24, 2026, changes that: it introduces…
FBSimCity, the explorable isometric city of Firebird internals, is at v0.6.0 with a new replication district. Replication without a log Firebird has no write-ahead log to ship, so its replication is logical — and it has to be. As each trans…
Big news for anyone using Firebird from Node.js: the pure-JavaScript node-firebird driver shipped eight releases in under a week (v2.6.0 → v2.14.0), completing its entire roadmap and closing all 47 open issues — some dating back to 2015. Th…
We are excited to announce the release of cl-firebird v1.0.0 — a pure Common Lisp database driver for Firebird 3.0, 4.0, 5.0, and 6.0+. Featuring full 1:1 feature parity with node-firebird, this release brings 12-factor connection URIs, thr…
FBSimCity — the explorable isometric city of Firebird internals — is at v0.4.0, and this release adds a whole backup yard, built around what gbak and nbackup actually do. gbak: the backup that pins your OIT gbak takes a logical backup onlin…
I've published FBSimCity, an interactive visualization of Firebird internals: an explorable isometric city where every building is a subsystem from the classic Conceptual Architecture for Firebird paper (Chan & Yashkir), and queries commute…
We are thrilled to share the journey of our last 7 releases (from v2.3.3 to v2.6.0), which mark one of the most transformative periods in the history of the node-firebird driver. With this series of releases, we’ve migrated the driver to na…
We are thrilled to share the journey of our last 7 releases (from v2.3.3 to v2.6.0), which mark one of the most transformative periods in the history of the node-firebird driver. With this series of releases, we’ve migrated the driver to na…
Going Native-Free: Introducing the Pure Node.js Wire Driver for Firebird Published in Engineering • Pull Request #168 Summary If you have ever built Node.js applications that communicate with a Firebird database, you are likely familiar wit…
IBPhoenix is pleased to announce the release of a new free ebook:Practical Firebird Performance Diagnostics: A Structured ApproachUnlike traditional performance tuning guides, this ebook focuses on the reasoning behind successful diagnostic…