Firebird is a relational database offering many ANSI SQL standard features that runs on Mac, Linux, Windows, and a variety of Unix platforms. Firebird offers excellent concurrency, high performance, and powerful language support for stored procedures and triggers. It has been used in production systems, under a variety of names, since 1981. Mac OS X: NOTE: Because use of libstdc is now deprecated Mac OS X users should be aware that Firebird 2.5.8 will run only on Mac OS X 10.9 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).
This article will show you how to install Thunderbird on Mac. For other operating systems, see Installing Thunderbird on Windows and Installing Thunderbird on Linux.
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Before you install Thunderbird, check that your computer meets the System Requirements.
Open the Thunderbird download page.
FireBird Review. Firebird is a management system for open source databases, that comes from InterBase version 6. This relational database system provides many of the features implemented in the ANSI SQL standard. The program is multi-platform and can be used on different operating systems such as Windows, Mac, and Linux.
The page will automatically detect the platform and language on your computer and recommend the best edition(s) of Thunderbird for you. If you want to download Thunderbird in a language other than the one suggested, click on 'Other Systems & Languages' for the list of available editions. Click on the OS X installation of your choice to continue.
Once the download is completed, the disk image may open by itself and mount a new volume which contains the Thunderbird application. If you do not see the new volume, double-click the Thunderbird dmg icon to open it. A Finder window appears, containing the Thunderbird application. Drag the Thunderbird icon to the Applications folder.
At this point you can eject the disk image by selecting it in a Finder window and pressing the command+E keys or by using the Finder's File menu, and selecting Eject.
Thunderbird is now ready for use. Open the Applications folder and double-click on the Thunderbird icon to start it. You may get a security warning that Thunderbird has been downloaded from the Internet. Because you downloaded Thunderbird from the official site, you can click to continue.
Tip: You can add Thunderbird to your dock for easy access. Just open your Applications folder and drag Thunderbird to the dock.
The first time you start Thunderbird you will be alerted that it is not your default email application. (The default email application is the program that opens, for example, when you click a link on a web page to an email address.) If you want Thunderbird to be the default email application, click to set it as your default mailer. If not (for example if you are just trying out Thunderbird) click .
- The Installing Thunderbird on Mac OS X chapter in the Thunderbird FLOSS manual
- The Uninstalling chapter in the Thunderbird FLOSS manual
Table of Contents
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- Introduction
- Installing Firebird
- Getting Started with Firebird
- Advanced Topics
- Building Firebird from Source on MacOSX
- A. Additional References
- B. Document History
- C. License Notice
- Why Am I Writing This ?
- Copyright and Caveats
- Why Should I Use Firebird ?
In July 2000, Borland (then Inprise) released the source code of their database product, Interbase, under the Interbase Public License. Firebird is the Open Source direct descendent of that database. For more information about Interbase and Firebird, there is an excellent description of the history of events leading up to the release of Interbase to the Open Source community, and the subsequent development of Firebird.
Until now, my database of choice has been PostgreSQL running on Linux, and more recently on OSX. Our company was commisioned to build a Java application targeted at the Windows platform. Firebird was chosen as the database because of it's wide platform availability (Windows, Linux, BSD etc) . In particular, Firebird is regarded as mature and stable on Windows, the main target market for the application.
To perform my QA tasks for this project, I elected to install Firebird on my Powerbook. While downloading and installing the MacOSX Firebird package was relatively straightforward, I found myself scrabbling around the net looking for information on how to put my installed Firebird to use under MacOSX.
It is my hope that this document will give others a headstart with Firebird on OSX.
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The structure and content of this document is based on the document entitled Firebird Database on Linux prepared by Pascal Chong on March 9 2003 [URL link now lost]. An annotation pertaining to the licensing of that document appears in the Appendix at the end of this one.
Thank you Pascal, for your original document, even though it was targetted at Linux, helped me up and running with Firebird under OSX !!!
Open Source databases generally suffer from 2 common deficiencies : either they are large, such as PostgreSQL and MySQL, or they lack features and documentation, such as HypersonicSQL or McKoi.
Firebird Formula
Firebird has a relatively tiny footprint. At about 10MB for the MacOSX 'packaged' version. If your requirement is for an “embedded database”, bundled with an application server and/or an application, then it is possible to slim down the required files by approx 5Mb. Firebird has all the common features of more mature databases, such as support for transactions, stored procedures, SQL-compliance, etc. If your background is in DB2 and PostgreSQL, the syntax is very similar, and the data types and data handling may seem very familiar, such as the mandatory “single-quotes” for strings.
Firebird Client For Mac
The design emphasis for Firebird seems to be on small, fast and minimum management. This is ideal for developers who need a database for storage, but do not want to spend too much time on tuning the database for performance. In many situations you may not even need stored procedures, or do complex table joins. In such cases, Firebird is the ideal compromise between size and functionality.