[HLUG] Open Source Databases

[Julian Robbins]

Hi Chris

Interesting email.

Im not sure its relevant but it may be worth looking at libre/open office
Base the database part of libre/open office

Others may have better ideas than me on this ...

Julian
On Nov 13, 2012 12:17 PM, "Dr Chris Owens" <cowens at clara.co.uk> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> Please can I pick the brains of the group for a bit of advice.
>
> I have been asked to re-start work from 15-20 years ago on Healthcare
> content and logistics, trouble is it was all done with SuperBase which has
> long gone bust and won't in any case run on modern machines.
>
> The key ingredient SB had was an integrated provision to write scripts
> easily (in a form of Basic) that by-passed GUI services (especially for
> Forms and Output) and gave easy and very tight control of cursor movement
> to rows and after a bit of fiddling to columns apart from customising Forms
> and Output. This meant the content of every cell was easily accessed which
> is my first requirement. (I could be wrong, but using SQL in e.g. MySql
> would be a hard way of managing this sort of access with or without content
> manipulation).
>
> Two other key requirements are a strong import and export facility that
> can handle as many  (esp proprietary) formats as possible with good
> filtering capability and the system needs a good capacity for volume. Speed
> is not critical and finally I would like it to be Open Source.
>
> So I suppose what is really needed is a dogged stable facility without too
> many bells and whistles that is reasonably easy to use and can act as a
> processing engine - any sophisticated data visualisation capability would
> just be a bonus.
>
> Thank you for any help or advice.
>
> All the best to everyone
>
> Chris
>
>
>
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