Classification: Firebird Administration Tool
Provider: Marathon Development Group
Platforms: Windows
License: Open Source
Marathon has an IB Objects back-end for robust remote, LAN-based or developer-local administration. Includes visual performance statistics and tuning, Script Executive, recording of interactive metadata sessions into a script and user-friendly GUI to ISQL functionality.
Marathon has come a long way and it was the first commercial GUI for InterBase databases. It was created and supported for a long time by Patrick O'Keeffe and his company Gimbal Software Service (GSS). In June, 2001 Marathon was made an Open Source project using the Mozilla Public License (MPL) and since this time it has been gone through some major code revise to make the Open Source development possible, easier and more transparent.