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Re:Waiting for a capable PostgreSQL front-end
Why not just use
Or you could use Once:Radix or Servoy, both of which integrate with PostgreSQL.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/onceradix/
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Re:When will we see a DB like FMPro on LinuxYou should take a look at Servoy http://www.servoy.com/.
It's a RAD for making database applications on top of any SQL database.
It does pretty much what you are asking for.
It's 100% java (works with Apache Tomcat) so works on all major platforms and it's licensing scheme is way cheaper than FMPro.
Just my 2 euro cents.
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FM7 Server features and alternatives
I'm at the annual FM developer's conference right now, and they just released FM Server advanced, which is ANSI SQL compliant with ODBC/JDBC, directly ports XML in and out and parses XML using the XALAN engine, and does lots of other groovy stuff. A single field can hold 2 GB of text, the container field type holds any binary data now, and the new relational model allows you to hold "joins" as stateful objects which display live data via the relationship.
There are a beautiful set of classes in PHP to build web pages via XML interchange at iviking.org. These are open source.
OTOH, I have also spent some time with the servoy guys www.servoy.com which is an amazingly worthy SQL front end gui building tool; I am absolutely blown away by this product. So take your pick, FM is great, servoy is great, PHP as a web app front end to PostgreSQL would be great, it depends on time, budget, concurrent users, dataset sizes, etc. -
Fantastic FileMaker replacement (not free though)
It's not free, but it is extremely good, and cheap compared to FileMaker. It's java based, so runs on Win/Mac/Lin/BSD/Solaris... though we're just using it on linux.
It's a Dutch product called Servoy. There's a demo available, a very helpful community (the CEO, Jan Aleman (jaleman) posts a lot), and the manuals and other materials are also available online for free. It comes with a Sybase iAnywhere licence out of the box (if it came in a box) but uses JDBC, and has PostgreSQL and MySQL support right off.
As you'll find out when you read the site, there is no file format; the solution is kept in a database. It also uses javascript as it's scripting language.
All in all, a very nifty product. And I'm not just saying that because we spent $6k on licences (previously we spent $3k on FMPro 5 licences, which were never used due to the product being inferior), I really do love working with it. -
Fantastic FileMaker replacement (not free though)
It's not free, but it is extremely good, and cheap compared to FileMaker. It's java based, so runs on Win/Mac/Lin/BSD/Solaris... though we're just using it on linux.
It's a Dutch product called Servoy. There's a demo available, a very helpful community (the CEO, Jan Aleman (jaleman) posts a lot), and the manuals and other materials are also available online for free. It comes with a Sybase iAnywhere licence out of the box (if it came in a box) but uses JDBC, and has PostgreSQL and MySQL support right off.
As you'll find out when you read the site, there is no file format; the solution is kept in a database. It also uses javascript as it's scripting language.
All in all, a very nifty product. And I'm not just saying that because we spent $6k on licences (previously we spent $3k on FMPro 5 licences, which were never used due to the product being inferior), I really do love working with it. -
Fantastic FileMaker replacement (not free though)
It's not free, but it is extremely good, and cheap compared to FileMaker. It's java based, so runs on Win/Mac/Lin/BSD/Solaris... though we're just using it on linux.
It's a Dutch product called Servoy. There's a demo available, a very helpful community (the CEO, Jan Aleman (jaleman) posts a lot), and the manuals and other materials are also available online for free. It comes with a Sybase iAnywhere licence out of the box (if it came in a box) but uses JDBC, and has PostgreSQL and MySQL support right off.
As you'll find out when you read the site, there is no file format; the solution is kept in a database. It also uses javascript as it's scripting language.
All in all, a very nifty product. And I'm not just saying that because we spent $6k on licences (previously we spent $3k on FMPro 5 licences, which were never used due to the product being inferior), I really do love working with it. -
Fantastic FileMaker replacement (not free though)
It's not free, but it is extremely good, and cheap compared to FileMaker. It's java based, so runs on Win/Mac/Lin/BSD/Solaris... though we're just using it on linux.
It's a Dutch product called Servoy. There's a demo available, a very helpful community (the CEO, Jan Aleman (jaleman) posts a lot), and the manuals and other materials are also available online for free. It comes with a Sybase iAnywhere licence out of the box (if it came in a box) but uses JDBC, and has PostgreSQL and MySQL support right off.
As you'll find out when you read the site, there is no file format; the solution is kept in a database. It also uses javascript as it's scripting language.
All in all, a very nifty product. And I'm not just saying that because we spent $6k on licences (previously we spent $3k on FMPro 5 licences, which were never used due to the product being inferior), I really do love working with it. -
Servoy
It's not free, but Servoy (http://www.servoy.com/) is a very nice cross-platform "Filemaker clone" (in terms of GUI and some functionality) which will sit on top of any SQL database, and offers *far* superior (Java/Javascript-based) scripting and plugin functionality.
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My suggestionUnless you have some legacy MySQL applications, I would suggest using PostgreSQL--it's really free with no strings attached, it's ACID-compliant and it's a real RDBMS. In the past it was slow but not any more. When in doubt read: [1] [2] [3]. To be fair, there is one place where MySQL beats PostgreSQL, and that is the documentation. For example, you will often find unfinished parts of PostgreSQL documentation turned into "Exercises":
"This query is called a left outer join because the table mentioned on the left of the join operator will have each of its rows in the output at least once, whe reas the table on the right will only have those rows output that match some row of the left table. When outputting a left-table row for which there is no right -table match, empty (null) values are substituted for the right-table columns.
Exercise: There are also right outer joins and full outer joins. Try to find out what those do."when there really should be:
"TODO: There are also right outer joins and full outer joins. FIXME: We MUST write more."
Not to mention the "RTFS" answers in "TFM" for questions very frequently asked by beginners:
"4.3) How do I get a list of tables or other things I can see in psql?"
"You can read the source code for psql in file pgsql/src/bin/psql/describe.c."Other than that I would say that PostgreSQL is definitely the way to go today. Once you get used to reading the source code as documentation (it is actually very clean and properly commented, so that's not such a big deal), you will really love it. And you will have the most important thing: ACID features. I hope it helps, I wish you the best luck.
See also:
- http://www.postgresql.org/
- http://www.mysql.com/
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MySQL
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PostgreSQL
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firebird_(database_se rver)
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relational_database
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database_management_s ystem
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACID
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relational_model
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Set_theory
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axiomatic_set_theory
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predicate_logic
- http://www.glom.org/
- http://www.servoy.com/
- http://www.dotcomsolutionsinc.net/products/fmpro_m igrator/index.html
- http://www.firebirdsql.org/
(Please forgive me if I repeat anything which has already been said. I started to write it as a first post but it took some time and I am sure that other
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Replacing FileMaker
There are many open and closed source options. The two things I would recommend most on the commercial side are Servoy and WebObjects. WebObjects is, in my opinion, the best (and oldest) application server. Servoy, was designed to be what FileMaker Pro should be.
I used to be a FileMaker Pro developer. I hated it because it was so hacked together (from a developer perspective). When I saw Servoy, at MacWorld in January, I was very impressed. I wish I had seen it while I was working with FileMaker. -
Re:Pretty simple.
Have a look at Servoy (http://www.servoy.com) if you want to develop in a FileMaker like environment under Linux. In fact, Servoy works under Windows, Linux, Mac OSX, and many other UNIX operating systems, works with SQL databases, and is much more powerful than Filemaker. Fully functional trial is available too. See http://forum.servoy.com for support.
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Re:Pretty simple.
Have a look at Servoy (http://www.servoy.com) if you want to develop in a FileMaker like environment under Linux. In fact, Servoy works under Windows, Linux, Mac OSX, and many other UNIX operating systems, works with SQL databases, and is much more powerful than Filemaker. Fully functional trial is available too. See http://forum.servoy.com for support.