Firebird

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Project Summary

Firebird is a relational database offering many ANSI/ISO 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. It has been used in production systems, under a variety of names, since 1981.

Firebird is a commercially independent project of C++ programmers, technical advisors and supporters developing and enhancing a multi-platform relational database management system based on the source code released by Inprise Corp (now known as Borland Software Corp) on 25 July, 2000.
Join the Firebird Foundation The software is completely free of any registration, licensing or deployment fees. It may be deployed freely for use with any third-party

In a Nutshell, Firebird...

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has had 64,320 commits made by 199 contributors
representing 1,377,316 lines of code
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is mostly written in C++
with an average number of source code comments
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has a well established, mature codebase
maintained by a very large development team
with increasing Y-O-Y commits
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took an estimated 386 years of effort (COCOMO model)
starting with its first commit in May, 2001
ending with its most recent commit 4 days ago

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Dmitry Yemanov, Mark Rotteveel, and mapopa

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