Firebird-driver

The firebird-driver package provides official Python Database API 2.0-compliant driver. In addition to the minimal feature set of the standard Python DB API, this driver also exposes the new (interface-based) client API introduced in Firebird 3, and number of additional extensions and enhancements for convenient use of Firebird RDBMS. The driver is written as pure-Python package (requires Python 3.8+) on top of Firebird client library (fbclient.so/dll) using ctypes. Driver supports Firebird version 3.0 and higher.

Minimal requirements:

• Python: 3.8
• Firebird: 3

You can download this driver from PyPI or install it using pip.

See also firebird-lib package for optional extensions to this driver.

FDB - Legacy Python Driver for Firebird

FDB is a Python library package that implements Python Database API 2.0-compliant support for Firebird. In addition to the minimal feature set of the standard Python DB API, FDB also exposes the entire native (old-style) client API of the database engine and contains extensive collection of submodules that simplify various Firebird-related tasks.

Minimal requirements:

• Python: 2.7 or 3
• Firebird: 2

You can download this driver from PyPI or install it using pip.

KInterbasDB - Obsolete Python Driver for Firebird

KInterbasDB is a Python extension package that implements Python Database API 2.0-compliant support for Firebird. In addition to the minimal feature set of the standard Python DB API, KInterbasDB also exposes nearly the entire native client API of the database engine.

The package is free - covered by a permissive BSD-style license that both commercial and noncommercial users should find agreeable.

• Pyfirebirdsql
• django-firebird