In my opinion, other than early Filemaker, a general-purpose consumer/end user friendly relational database has never existed for the Mac like it has for Windows - i.e. Originally the targeted audience was advanced end users but at some point, that changed to professional software developers, around the time Bento was released which was simply to anemic to be successful. Frankly I have always believed that Filemaker was overpriced. It also has the the unique capability that it runs on 3 platforms - Mac, Windows, and Linux. ![]() That said you cannot take issue with the price. It does have a learning curve but quite flexible and powerful with its SQL underpinnings. ![]() LibreOffice Base has similarities to Microsoft Access and the documentation tends to be light but as a former Filemaker Support Engineer when Filemaker was the former Claris I found it to be useable as a GUI DB.
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