FirebirdSQL is used by 11 companies from the TOP-500 list of Russia

This week, RBC has published a list of the TOP-500 Russian companies . And just yesterday, meeting with colleagues from ISDEF , I once again answered the question of who is using Firebird SQL in Russia, and decided to combine the answer to this question with a list of TOP-500.



I looked through the TOP-500 quickly enough, so I could have missed someone, but in the end I got this list of companies using Firebird:

• Gazprom
• Magnet
• Gazprombank
• Sibur
• Aeroflot
• Post of Russia
• Pharmstandard
• Moscow Exchange
• Gazprom automation
• OTCPharm
• RKK Energy

Some more companies (VTB, Polyus Gold, Ingosstrakh, etc.) also used Firebird some time ago, but I don’t have relevant information on them, so I didn’t include them.



In addition to the companies from the TOP-500, of course, there are hundreds of others, and rather rather big ones (for example: GEMA, Forward / chain store “Polushka”, Uniastrum Bank, Profitmed, LMS Clinic, etc.), and all the time there are new - to us for a free seminar on large Firebird databases, companies with a database of 300-500GB have unexpectedly signed up, which we hear about for the first time, although we have been dealing with this topic since the foundation of Firebird in 2002.

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Of course, Firebird is used in different ways - somewhere in the role of the main accounting system, somewhere as a branch / store DBMS, somewhere it was built into a rather big high-tech device.



Unfortunately, it is very difficult to get approval for the publication of a detailed story about the use of Firebird (and indeed any software) - it must be approved by lawyers / security guards / PR specialists / marketers, etc.