Why no love for MyBase? My early review:

Posted by nathanb
Jul 15, 2018 at 09:13 PM

22111 wrote:

>(So the remaining posts/pages of this thread weren’t of any further
>interest to me: be more concise, dear fellow software judges: Once you
>encounter some eliminator, don’t pursue further, spare your time.)

Actually we had some good discussions going on after that first post and I’m a wiser CRIMPer for it! In my first post I acknowledge the indispensable Paul Miller’s review but also mentioned that it was for an older version and that one of the most significant changes since that review was a significant upgrade to MyBase’s underlying database. So it may be still true that MyBase slows down with growth, but I’m not sure that is a ‘settled’ issue at this point. However, though I’ve done infinitesimal testing with it, it does seem to be not designed for speed like Ultra Recall. I’m basing that solely on needing to manually ‘re-index’ for a search to find any new entries for a ‘current session’ and that taking a few seconds for even a very small dataset. Even OneNote is very fast and non-intrusive about ‘continuously indexing’. That doesn’t bode well for ‘1 Million’ entries in MyBase. I’m no programmer, but it ‘feels’ like MyBase doesn’t entrench itself heavily within the OS like some of the others which I’m sure is why it seems to be the exact same animal on Windows, Linux, and MacOS. I’m leaning away towards using MyBase as a daily driver but think it is viable as a front-end for a large file archive that a person updates periodically.

Even though I find nested tagging and direct ‘two-way’ linking valuable, I’m now leaning towards Ultra Recall as my main system. The freedom of custom user meta-data for many different data types within the same database is very compelling. That means I can contain completely different kinds of Knowledge Bases under different branches of the main hierarchy but still ‘cross link’ individual items between those different data sets when needed. Sure I’d rather have explicit ‘backlinks’ and nested tagging, but the cloning (and quickness that UR lets you clone things) enables me to emulate those two things reasonably closely, especially considering the custom attributes when necessary. I’m a heavy Outlook user at work and am only just realizing how UR can level up many aspects of that flow.

When you say you have ‘1 Million’ UR entries, is that within a single database? How big is that file? I think the UR devs say the database limit is 2TB but I’m curious to know how big the larger ones in the wild are.