Personal database software for *nix?

[Erik Price]

On Nov 24, 2003, at 10:10 PM, bscott at ntisys.com wrote:

> Hello world,
>
>   Does anybody have any knowledge on personal database software for 
> Linux?
>
>   I just-now made up the term "personal database software", although I 
> would
> be astounded if I'm the first person to do so.  I'm thinking about 
> something
> kinda like Microsoft Access or Borland Paradox, but I'm not much 
> interested
> in the programming/SQL stuff (although I certainly won't complain if 
> it is
> there).  All I want is something that will let me quickly and easily 
> create
> fields in a table, and link between tables.

Your description reminded me of an open source project called "SQLite", 
which is basically a relational database that is not a server -- an 
"embeddable" database (embeddable in the sense that you can embed it 
into an application so that the user doesn't have to go through all of 
the installation and configuration of MySQL, etc).  SQLite is written 
in C but there are many libraries that provide access to it from other 
languages (Python, Perl, etc).

<http://www.hwaci.com/sw/sqlite/>

But it's not a visual tool like you describe.  However, I did a little 
googling on SQLite and found a project called "SQLite Database 
Browser".  It's implemented in Qt so it meets your no-Java no-HTML 
requirements, but runs on Linux, MacOSX, and Windows.  But I have no 
firsthand experience with it so I can't attest to what it's really 
like.

<http://sqlitebrowser.sourceforge.net/>

If you try it out, would you mind posting your opinions?

Regards,

Erik