HQbird: Advanced FirebirdSQL

IBSurgeon HQbird is an advanced distribution of Firebird for enterprises, with the following list of features: 100% Firebird engine, optimized configurations, high availability and replication, backups automation, database health monitoring, transactions and queries monitoring (TraceAPI, MON$ and FBScanner), database structure analysis, recovery toolset and database development GUI.
 

Firebird Performance Optimization

IBSurgeon offers Firebird Performance Optimization service to increase the performance of your Firebird database and application. We will optimize the configuration of Firebird server and database, tune settings of hardware, virtual environments and operation systems, speed up your SQL queries with indices and tweaks, and improve database structure and transactions management.
From $599

Emergency database recovery

To recover corrupted Firebird (or InterBase) databases (with size less than 65Gb) you can use IBSurgeon FirstAID - the best recovery tool for Firebird and InterBase. FirstAID can  automatically fix the vast majority of Firebird database corruption. For databases more than 65Gb in size please contact our support, most like they will require manual recovery service.
From $199

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HQbird 2024 is released

HQbird is advanced distribution of Firebird, with many improvements in the areas of performance, high availability, development, and more. It is intended for large enterprises and development companies with many Firebird installations, offering performance, protection from various threats, and mass maintenance.

Version 2024 introduces support of Firebird 5, and continue to support versions 4.0, 3.0, 2.5, with various improvements in the engine, high availability, tooling, and encryption.

HQbird is 100% compatible with Firebird, no need to perform backup/restore, you can install HQbird in trial mode in parallel with vanilla Firebird, and switch between instances.

The detailed list of HQbird features which improves Firebird can be found here, and below there are the biggest improvements of version HQbird 2024:

  1. Replacing queries “on the fly”
  2. Plugins for performing external connections with ODBC and MySQL
  3. Streaming/Change Data Capture with ready-to-use Kafka plugin, and plugin-building framework.
  4. Automation support to work with many databases on the server (for clients with SaaS model), with ability to create “replica server”
  5. Multi-instance support, which makes migration process from old Firebird versions much easier. HQbird 2024 is also integrated with Mass Migration Framework
  6. Automatic correction of firebird.conf configuration in case of erroneous configuration.
The features are described here.

HQbird v2024 has 2 licenses:

  • Per server, suitable for small and medium companies, with US$899/server
  • Unlimited License, for large enterprises and software development companies, which US$13465/year. Download HQbird v2024 here.

    Customers with support contracts, subscriptions, or recent maintenance purchases (within the last 13 months), as well as customers who bought HQbird in the last 30 days, will get free upgrades in the next 10 days.

13 Марта 2024

HQbird 2024 is released

HQbird is advanced distribution of Firebird, with many improvements in the areas of performance, high availability, development, and more.

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Detailed New Features of FirebirdL the first 3 parts

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