What is HQbird
HQbird is an advanced distribution of Firebird for enterprises,
with the following list of features: 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. Also HQbird includes a performance self-test
to measure Firebird performance on the specific hardware and OS configuration.
HQbird is not a fork of Firebird, it is an advanced distribution with enhanced features and tools for enterprise use.
HQbird is not a fork of Firebird, it is an advanced distribution with enhanced features and tools for enterprise use.
HQbird contains 2 parts: server-side and administration. The
server-side part has versions for Windows and Linux, and the administration
part works on Windows only.
There are 3 editions of HQbird: Standard, Professional and
Enterprise.
Feature matrix
Below there is the feature matrix for HQbird.
| HQbird Editions | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Features | Standard | Professional | Enterprise |
| Backups (automated verified and incremental backups and their combinations) | X | X | X |
| Optimized configurations (balanced, read-intensive and write intensive) | X | X | X |
| Performance test suite (hardware scoring) | X | X | X |
| SQL monitoring and profiling (queries, connections, transactions through TraceAPI, MON$ and traffic analysys through FBScanner) | X | X | X |
| Health monitoring (online validation, database health check, log analysis) | X | X | X |
| Transaction tracking (transactions markers dynamics analysis) | X | X | X |
| Database structure analysis (table and indices sizes, fragmentation, BLOBs, versioning, etc) | X | X | X |
| SQL development & debugging (GUI tool to develop database and queries) | X | X | |
| Recovery (Firebird databases recovery, backups recovery, Undelete records) | X | X | |
| High availability (replication) | X | ||
Licensing looks very interesting: an unlimited subscription prices starts from EUR299/month for unlimited usage of HQbird Standard. More details here: http://www.ib-aid.com/en/hqbird
