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Only vaguely related: what would be the Access equivalent of today? Somethings with low learning curve and forms. Any suggestions?

submeta 6y ago
Simple CRUD apps with Python + Flask or Django I‘d say.
- couchpotatonews 6y ago
  Even easier would be to use a CMS, I prefer Processwire but many others also have great form builders and generic list/calendar/etc views.
ako 6y ago
One of the low- or no-code tools.
dyeje 6y ago
Airtable
jedimastert 6y ago
Access still exists, although I haven't used it in a long time Alternatively, you can access Google Sheets with SQL queries, although I guess it probably wouldn't be great, but Google Forms + Sheets?
tosh 6y ago
glide https://www.glideapps.com https://www.glideapps.com
drran 6y ago
GnuCobol? Text mode only.
SEXY_DEVE_GOWDA 6y ago
Oracle Apex is probably the best
jsilence 6y ago
Thank you for all the suggestions! Will check them out!
tyingq 6y ago
Commercial Web-Based Databases: http://quickbase.com http://quickbase.com https://www.zoho.com/creator/ https://www.zoho.com/creator/ https://www.knack.com/ https://www.knack.com/ https://bubble.io/ https://bubble.io/ https://airtable.com/ https://airtable.com/ https://www.claris.com/filemaker/ https://www.claris.com/filemaker/ https://www.appsheet.com/ https://www.appsheet.com/ https://ninox.com/en https://ninox.com/en https://www.honeycode.aws/ https://www.honeycode.aws/ https://www.ragic.com/ https://www.ragic.com/ https://www.fusioo.com/ https://www.fusioo.com/ Surprisingly, there's not much in the way of open source with the same level of functionality as above. Here's a few: https://cortezaproject.org/ https://cortezaproject.org/ https://www.openxava.org/ https://www.openxava.org/ https://www.joget.org/ https://www.joget.org/ https://www.nubuilder.com/ https://www.nubuilder.com/ https://www.openoffice.org/product/base.html https://www.openoffice.org/product/base.html https://baserow.io/ https://baserow.io/
brandonmenc 6y ago
> what would be the Access equivalent of today Access.
chevman 6y ago
Sharepoint forms.
hypermachine 6y ago
We are working on it (starting from the VBA interpreter).
snuxoll 6y ago
Force.com/Salesforce - literally the reason I pushed our business unit to purchase a couple dozen Force.com-only licenses was we had teams that needed really simple apps to store and track data and my team (internal development) did not have the bandwidth to make them with our traditional stacks. Had something up within 48 hours, still working and worth it to this day.
7thaccount 6y ago
Sqlite plus some kind of scripting language plus some graphical viewer for that database.
Stranger43 6y ago
The phpmyadmin(backed by mysql), html4, and apache mod_php platform, probably deserves an mention here as it did play an huge part in the migration from offline PC databases to online webapp's in the space where MS Access was prevalent. The conventional wisdom in 2021 would probably lean toward python+flask+postgre rather then the traditional lamp stack but i am not sure that's actually an superior solution for the entry level user/designer compared.

submeta 6y ago

Simple CRUD apps with Python + Flask or Django I‘d say.

couchpotatonews 6y ago
Even easier would be to use a CMS, I prefer Processwire but many others also have great form builders and generic list/calendar/etc views.

ako 6y ago

One of the low- or no-code tools.

dyeje 6y ago

Airtable

jedimastert 6y ago

Access still exists, although I haven't used it in a long time Alternatively, you can access Google Sheets with SQL queries, although I guess it probably wouldn't be great, but Google Forms + Sheets?

tosh 6y ago

glide https://www.glideapps.com https://www.glideapps.com

drran 6y ago

GnuCobol? Text mode only.

SEXY_DEVE_GOWDA 6y ago

Oracle Apex is probably the best

jsilence 6y ago

Thank you for all the suggestions! Will check them out!

tyingq 6y ago

Commercial Web-Based Databases: http://quickbase.com http://quickbase.com https://www.zoho.com/creator/ https://www.zoho.com/creator/ https://www.knack.com/ https://www.knack.com/ https://bubble.io/ https://bubble.io/ https://airtable.com/ https://airtable.com/ https://www.claris.com/filemaker/ https://www.claris.com/filemaker/ https://www.appsheet.com/ https://www.appsheet.com/ https://ninox.com/en https://ninox.com/en https://www.honeycode.aws/ https://www.honeycode.aws/ https://www.ragic.com/ https://www.ragic.com/ https://www.fusioo.com/ https://www.fusioo.com/ Surprisingly, there's not much in the way of open source with the same level of functionality as above. Here's a few: https://cortezaproject.org/ https://cortezaproject.org/ https://www.openxava.org/ https://www.openxava.org/ https://www.joget.org/ https://www.joget.org/ https://www.nubuilder.com/ https://www.nubuilder.com/ https://www.openoffice.org/product/base.html https://www.openoffice.org/product/base.html https://baserow.io/ https://baserow.io/

brandonmenc 6y ago

> what would be the Access equivalent of today Access.

chevman 6y ago

Sharepoint forms.

hypermachine 6y ago

We are working on it (starting from the VBA interpreter).

snuxoll 6y ago

Force.com/Salesforce - literally the reason I pushed our business unit to purchase a couple dozen Force.com-only licenses was we had teams that needed really simple apps to store and track data and my team (internal development) did not have the bandwidth to make them with our traditional stacks. Had something up within 48 hours, still working and worth it to this day.

7thaccount 6y ago

Sqlite plus some kind of scripting language plus some graphical viewer for that database.

Stranger43 6y ago

The phpmyadmin(backed by mysql), html4, and apache mod_php platform, probably deserves an mention here as it did play an huge part in the migration from offline PC databases to online webapp's in the space where MS Access was prevalent. The conventional wisdom in 2021 would probably lean toward python+flask+postgre rather then the traditional lamp stack but i am not sure that's actually an superior solution for the entry level user/designer compared.