-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 07:17:56AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: > The last time I needed a relational database my employer was using > dBaseII on a MS-DOS machine.
Hm. A strange "relational" database indeed... > What is a functional equivalent in the Debian repository? > > I looked at at LibreOffice Base. It was unusable as its "help" > system provided no intrinsic way to increase fonts to a legible > size. LibreOffice Base is, AFAIK *not* a relational database, but just a -possibly graphical- user interface to one. Relational databases, as I know them, have no "fonts", for example. Sorry for sounding somewhat snarky, but I'm trying to help you refine your requirements. What is it exactly what you are looking for? - some kind of dBase clone (in a very loose sense), i.e. some GUI where you can click together small data-centric GUI apps? "Relational", perhaps "concurrent multi-user" not so important? I have to defer to others in this one. But perhaps you might want to look into gambas (for which you'd need a "real" database beneath, see below) - a "relational" [1] database with transactions, SQL, perhaps some concurrent multi-user capabilities? Here, you could do significantly worse than PostgreSQL. Highly recommended. Or, if you want to embed it into applications and don't care about multi-user (and many other niceties), you might want to look into sqlite. Then there is MariaDB (which was formerly spelled MySQL, but Oracle). Others will disagree, but my take is: don't if you don't have to. (The first class of applications might contain one of the second class as embedded data store -- or it might not). What does you use case look like, approximately? Regards [1] Yeah: absolute purists will say most SQL databases out there are not relational, and they'd be right - -- tomás -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAli0LQUACgkQBcgs9XrR2kYRqQCfQoF10Q4ZvLzLEP5u2y9dVJPK uWoAniS+XnG6uKqkKWSwjYieYTgFW9xe =l5rv -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
