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Rover:
For those not familiar, Superboyac started a big "to-do" with his discussion on Note-Taking software. See the link: https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=2362.0

So I'm ready to start discussion database engines and database designs and this is where we'll do it.  Fire up your brains... it's time to work.   :Thmbsup:

Rover:
RE: Firebird
Firebird is a relational database offering many ANSI SQL standard features that runs on Linux, Windows, and a variety of Unix platforms. Firebird offers excellent concurrency, high performance, and powerful language support for stored procedures and triggers. It has been used in production systems, under a variety of names since 1981.

Firebird is a commercially independent project of C and C++ programmers, technical advisors and supporters developing and enhancing a multi-platform relational database management system based on the source code released by Inprise Corp (now known as Borland Software Corp) on 25 July, 2000 under the InterBase Public License v.1.0.

Join the Firebird Foundation    Firebird is completely free of any registration, licensing or deployment fees. It may be deployed freely for use with any third-party software, whether commercial or not.-From their site
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http://firebird.sourceforge.net/

RE: Asksam
askSam is the ideal application organize your information. askSam is a different kind of database - a free-form database designed for users rather than programmers. askSam makes it easy to turn anything into a searchable database: email messages, word processing documents, text files, spreadsheets, addresses, Web pages, and more.

askSam gives you the power of a database without the complexity. No need to program or learn a complicated query language. With askSam, you simply import or enter information, and you're ready to search. askSam users range from individuals organizing email, addresses, and research notes to corporations and government organizations managing meeting minutes, regulations, policy manuals, and corporate databases. -From their site Product Info
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http://www.asksam.com/brochure.asp

If anyone else has other suggestions, now would be the time.  I'm going to email askSam and see if they'd like to donate a copy for us to use, should we choose it.  They at least have a trial version.

Rover:
Here's another one:  Cache (formlerly MUMPS ??)
  Caché is a post-relational database that uniquely offers three integrated data access options which can be used simultaneously on the same data: a robust object database, high performance SQL, and rich multidimensional access. No mapping is required between object, relational, and multidimensional views of data, resulting in huge savings in both development and processing time. Caché enables rapid Web application development, extraordinary transaction processing speed, massive scalability, and real-time queries against transactional data.

The Caché Executive Overview provides a high-level description of Caché’s architecture and capabilities.

Caché’s technical benefits are briefly laid out in the document Why Developers Choose Caché. -From their site
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http://www.intersystems.com/cache/technology/what-is-cache.html

mouser:
im a novice in database design - im looking forward to reading this discussion.  :up:

Rover:
askSam update:  Unless someone has serious objections, I'm going to rule out askSam.

1) It's a windows only platform.
2) It's very expensive to distribute with an applications (~$5,000 for unlimited users)
3) It has it's own user interface and targets end users.
4) Using it as a database engine seems to be a 2nd or 3rd priority. (similar to #3)

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