SQLite doesn’t have a built-in user interface. The value of something like FileMaker isn’t the underlying storage mechanism, it’s the WYSIWYG user interface building that lets you quickly build custom apps around it
>"If you’re a small shop and have a need for a little database, what do you use?"
not the rest of the comment. mea culpa for not quoting that specific Q.
Edit: as for the rest of it, I love using Obsidian for ~everything. It's not a database, but it does support queries and rendering of tabular data, which meets all my admittedly modest needs.
(if a true db is required, some ppl like logseq which has some feature overlap w obsidian but is db-driven)
Historically the kind of shop that wants a FileMaker/Access replacement does not really want to develop software from scratch. I guess vibe coding may change that equation these days
SQLite doesn’t have a built-in user interface. The value of something like FileMaker isn’t the underlying storage mechanism, it’s the WYSIWYG user interface building that lets you quickly build custom apps around it
(sigh) I was replying to:
>"If you’re a small shop and have a need for a little database, what do you use?"
not the rest of the comment. mea culpa for not quoting that specific Q.
Edit: as for the rest of it, I love using Obsidian for ~everything. It's not a database, but it does support queries and rendering of tabular data, which meets all my admittedly modest needs.
(if a true db is required, some ppl like logseq which has some feature overlap w obsidian but is db-driven)
Historically the kind of shop that wants a FileMaker/Access replacement does not really want to develop software from scratch. I guess vibe coding may change that equation these days