Achim wrote:

Hello alltogether and especially Steve Z.,

I'm here as a reader for some years but
now there's the chance for a first post (maybe my english is a bit clunky - I'm german).

Few days ago I stumbled upon
http://www.brilliantdatabase.com/
and it seems
that it is not yet mentioned here.
Had not much time to fiddle around with it but here's
what I found out so far:

+ starts at 79,- (One can obtain a free license for
translating the UI into a yet missing language.)
+ supports various types of links &
relations
+ uses forms instead of tables
+ provides calendars & diagrams
+
supports scripts
+ database size up to 4 GB
+ supports rtf-fields (important for me
as a writer)
+ exports to Access, Word, Excel, Webpage, Email and various text
formats
+ imports from the same - plus Outlook and various database formats
+
displays forms and records in a tree
+ supports attachments (up to 64 MB each)
+ seems
pretty stable so far
+ continuous development (current version is 8.3)

I hadn't
yet the time to test it with big amounts of data, but performance with the sample
databases seems OK

o it's even a bit more geeky than Ultra Recall but also much more
flexible - and more convenient than Access or FileMaker

- interface is not on the
stylish side
- drag & drop could be more developed
- can create standalone databases
(exes) but only in the sdk version - for 1500, $ :-(
- no user forum (at least I didn't
find one) but lots of tutorials, videos, samples and a good help-file.
- weak
outlining features (only through the forms tree)
- no mind mapping features
- afaik
no dedicated feature for web-capturing (maybe it's possible with some workarounds,
scripts or whatever)
- no compression (besides compacting)
- no indexing (but
convenient search-features)

All in all I would say it's a very interesting desktop
database.(errors excepted :-))

best regards

Achim

Hello Achim,

there is another very important possibility this software has: it allows 1:1 and 1:n relations between database tables. For me, this is essential, because I want to build up relational databases. Now my list of suitable candidates has two entries: Alpha 5 and Brilliant DB.
Thanks very much for mentioning it here!

Peter.