Direct Access to Firebird 1.0.x 1.5.x 2.0 Classic or SuperServer
Multiplatform (Win32,Gnu/Linux,FreeBSD)
Compatible with Delphi PE ,Kylix OE , Freepascal 2.0.2 or above and TurboDelphi (1)
Automatic select client library 'fbclient' or 'gds32'
in kylix no visualclx/freeclx required (only rtl)
Query with params
Support SQL Dialect 1/3
LGPL License agreement
Extract Metadata
Simple Script Parser
Only 100-150 KB added into final EXE
Support BLOB Fields
Export Data to HTML SQL Script
Service manager (backup,restore,gfix...)
Events Alerter
Documentation
Thread safe (2)
Compatible with firebird 2.0
New component TFBLDataset (readonly,unidirectional) New !
(1) You cannot integrate components in Turbodelphi Explorer IDE but You can use fblib as class library , see turbodelphi examples
(2) components thread safe are TFBLDatabase,TFBLTransaction,TFBLDsql for default FbLib is NOT thread safe for enable this feature activate compiler directive "FBL_THREADSAFE" in file fbl.inc.