On 20 October 2011 08:29, Bob Giles <thecorf...@gmail.com> wrote: > ** > Hi listers, > > Firstly, I read on a tweet today that it's Ubuntu's 7th birthday today. > Happy birthday Ubuntu! > > Now for the real reason for the post. > > I want to create a simple database that I can distribute to others and was > hoping to come up with a solution that just allowed me to distribute it as a > standalone package in much the same way that MS users can with Access. I > want it to run under linux. If it was cross platform, that would be even > better but not essential. > > I do not want to be in the position of saying that you have to have a given > package installed to run the database. For example, I could easily produce > what I want in LibreOffice Base but would then have to assume that > recipients run LibreOffice. > > I have googled and the only programs that appear to come close are Kexi and > Firebird. Does anyone have any experiences of either or recommendations for > other packages. > > I have played about with Kexi which runs under KDE desktop but it appears > to crash with boring regularity. (That could be because I favour the Gnome > desktop.) > > As I said, the proposed database is simple and does not necessarily have to > be relational although it will contain many records. I want to keep records > of magazine articles from a variety of publications but can't find a bespoke > package that fits what I want to do. > > To be Ubuntuesque I have to point a desktopcouch, which is at the core of Gnome, but I'm not sure how easy it would be to port to other platforms. There are Windows and Mac projects but I have no idea how mature they are.
If users don't need to directly access the database then look at SQLite, which is cross-platform, included with most Linux distributions and easy to bundle. It's used in Firefox among other things, and there is a plugin for Firefox if direct access is required. Next up from that is something like HSQLDB, which is the engine in OpenOffice.org/LibreOffice which is written in Java and can be plugged into a package as part of a distribution. Downside there is that it needs Java to be present. s/ -- Twitter: @sfgreenwood "post-apocalyptic allen keys"
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