Welcome to Interbase’s documentation!

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

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

This documentation set is not a tutorial on Python, SQL, or InterBase; rather, it is a topical presentation of Interbase’s feature set, with example code to demonstrate basic usage patterns. For detailed information about InterBase features, see the InterBase documentation <https://docwiki.embarcadero.com/InterBase/2020/en/Main_Page>.

Documentation Contents:

• Getting Started with Interbase
  • Installation
  • Quick-start Guide
• Usage Guide
  • Driver structure
  • Databases
  • Executing SQL Statements
  • Data handling and conversions
  • Transanction management
  • Database Events
  • Working with Services
  • Working with database schema
  • Working with user privileges
• Compliance to Python Database API 2.0
  • Unsupported Optional Features
  • Supported Optional Features
  • Nominally Supported Optional Features
  • Extensions and Caveats
• Interbase Reference
  • Module globals
  • Exceptions
  • Functions
  • Classes
  • Internally used classes exposed to driver users
  • Services
  • Database schema
  • Utilities
  • ctypes interface to InterBase client library
• Changelog
  • Version 1.5.0
• LICENSE

Indices and tables

• Index

• Module Index

• Search Page