Looking for a database

[Uno Engborg]

Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Monday 30 Jan 2006 12:43, Uno Engborg wrote:
>   
>> If you are looking for an Access replacement, Firebird combined with
>> OpenOffice Base,
>> Kexi, Rekall might do it.  Just like in Access, a in Firebird a
>> database is just one file that you can store anywhere you
>> like in the file system (the Firebird engine must still be installed
>> though).
>>
>>     
> The new database model in OpenOffice2 looks to me to be the nearest 
> thing to an Access replacement.  What's more, it can read existing 
> tables in many formats, and use them relationally.  I've only looked 
> briefly, but it looked promising to me.
>
> Anne
>   
The problem is that it tend to get slow, for large datasets. It is 
therefore usually
better to just use it as a frontend to other databases.

Regards
Uno Engborg