Hello I'm Finishing my Master Degree this Year (2015) in Information Technology at Petru Maior University Romania http://upm.ro/English/English.html I will work this summer on finishing integration of Firebird backend https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/GSoC/Ideas#Finish_Firebird_driver_integration The main remaining issue is that the firebird data format embedded in the .odb file is endianess-dependent. The idea is to switch to Firebird's "archive" format that is not. I started by cleaning the previous gerrit and submitting new one Also as time permits fixing the following blockers for firebird integration : bug 69949 <https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69949> - table editor should support the autoincrement bug 71009 <https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=71009> - relationship management not implemented in GUI bug 71251 <https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=71251> - Creating table from default choices via wizard fails bug 74172 <https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=74172> - no data type DECIMAL/NUMERIC bug 76072 <https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=76072> - view creation not implemented I will test also firebird 3.0 integration (it should work with old 2.5 c based api with no changes ) Some it's features would allow easy fixes for example autoincrement (implemented as identity) https://github.com/FirebirdSQL/core/blob/master/doc/sql.extensions/README.identity_columns.txt True boolean datatype ... http://www.firebirdsql.org/file/community/conference-2014/pdf/02_fb.2014.whatsnew.30.en.pdf If nothing else is left to do i will create a branch with firebird 3.0 c++ oo api https://github.com/asfernandes/fbstuff/tree/master/src/test Api will be Fronzen only after Beta2 according to the Firebird core developers