Lotus Approach

[Findermonkey]

Does anyone still use Lotus Approach or has it been super seeded by something else?

I want to create a simple database and can remember using approach but that must be at least ten years ago.

Any advice?

Thanks

 

[Findermonkey]

Any help, anyone?

 

[carents]

By Lotus, do you mean Lotus Notes?

If yes, then, Lotus worked on file based approach for storing data. Everything would be a file, and you can add/remove properties from newly created files. Hence, it makes the architecture inconsistent.

Somewhere similar approach is google's big table, or nosql, or windows azure table. They store everything as entity, and each entity can have more/less properties. And is used mainly for scaling.

 

[MikeJ]

Microsoft's equivalent is Access. There's an OpenOffice product called Base.

 

[Findermonkey]

Thanks guys that good help. Appreciate it.

 

[MikeJ]

You could try Filemaker too, which a colleague raves about.