IBSurgeon HQbird is an advanced distribution of Firebird, with the following features: high availability and replication, backups automation, optimized configurations, database health monitoring, transactions and queries monitoring (Trace, MON$), database structure analysis, and recovery toolset.
IBSurgeon provides the encryption plugin framework for Firebird:
To recover corrupted Firebird (or InterBase) databases you can use IBSurgeon FirstAID - the best recovery tool for Firebird and InterBase. FirstAID can automatically fix the vast majority of Firebird database corruptions. For big databases (more than 65GB) please contact our support; most likely it will require a manual recovery service.
From $199HQbird 2024R2 Update 13: create indices concurrently in Firebird 5
HQbird 2024R Update 12
New article “Using UUID in Firebird” by D. Simonov covers practical approaches to working with UUIDs in Firebird without core modifications.
HQbird 2024R2 Update 11 Release focus: Security patches for Firebird 2.5, new encryption plugin capabilities, FBDataGuard improvements, and general stability …
HQbird 2024 R2 Update 10 introduces the big new feature - Materialized Views, and several important bug fixes and improvements
HQbird 2024 Update 8