Linux Stand Alone Database?

[Brett Kirksey]

On Sunday 10 October 2004 at 18:30+0100, david wrote:

> I can't speak for Ubuntu as I haven't tried it yet but, there
> are two apps the sort of meet your requirements (possibly).
> Knoda, (this requires mysql & mysql-devel to be installed),
> it has a gui for design of databases including a relational
> editor and a form designer (with some queries built in). THe
> other one os kexi, this is sort of part of the Koffice suite,
> but has to be added manually. Again, it has a gui with all
> sorts of bells and whistles.

Pretty cool. Those look as close as I have seen so far. However,
to completely match the ease of install of FileMaker/Access type
apps, the sql db would need to be embedded.

Like I have said many times in this thread, I'm not looking at
the advantages and disadvantages of this type of app, I'm just
looking to see if it exists. What most programmers hate about
FileMaker is probably one of the things that has made it so
successful, you can build databases with no technical knowledge
of the db engine or how to properly build relational databases.

Of course that can make for a catastrophe in the works (and I
have "repaired" many of them), but it does provide extreme ease
of use for the average desktop user. It would be really cool to
have this type of app at least available on Linux--GUI database
building with no separate install or required knowledge of the
db engine.

Brett