Or use ZeosDBO (free, open source, & also support Lazarus)
http://zeosforum.net.ms/ you can involve in the development of this
component too (they still need people to develop)

>>
>> - BDE (depreac... uh... bannished)
>
> I will personally come around and threaten great pain if you consider
> this ;)
>
>> - ADO/ODBC (i don't remember the toolbar name in delphi)
>
> ADO, probably suffers from being a lowest common denominator.
>
>> - IBX (by default in Dephi's components: toolbar "Interbase")
>
> Based on Free IB Components. Suffers from lack of foresight IMNSHO. I
> don't understand why most methods are not virtual. It makes creating a
> descendent class a real PITA. Wants the legacy client, but everything
> I have tried pretty much works.
>
>> - IBO
>
> Never used it but comes highly recommended from various folk in the list.
>
>> - UIB
>
> Again, never used it (although I think it is part of jedi as I have
> seen the components in my VCL).
>
> We took a different tact in writing our own. Internally we use IBX
> components (for no good reason), but going this way allows us to
> migrate with relatively little pain.
>
> Si compiled a couple on his fbtalk website a while back:
> http://www.fbtalk.net/viewtopic.aspx?id=130