It can achieve the most common tasks like creating, editing & executing:

• databases
• tables
• indices, keys, triggers, views, routines
• privileges management
• import/export

The application has a built-in editor with syntax-highlighting which is nice when running complex queries & an easy-to-use interface that makes browsing fast.

chive has one major fallback (which may pr may not effect you): it only supports MySQL 5+.

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It can control databases from different servers in a single, desktop-like interface where records can be easily browsed or edited within a grid.

The application displays every query executed & can run a batch of sql queries to save you time.

It is possible to select the columns to be displayed while editing a table which will help reaching the data in an organized way.

AeroSQL is built with PHP & uses ExtJS to provide the desktop-like functionality.

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It can be one of the popular databases below:

• MySQL
• PostgreSQL
• MSSQL
• SQLite
• MS Access

or even simpler ones like XML, text, etc.

It is understandable why these databases are frequently used; they are well-documented, have a community behind them, integrated with most popular CMSs', easy-to-use, offered by most of the hosting companies ,etc..

But there are also many other databases which are getting popular day-by-day & may have advantages over what you're already using.

Here are 25+ open source alternative databases that you may consider using in your next project:

MongoDB

It is an open source, high-performance, scalable, schema-free & document-oriented (JSON-like data schemas) database.

There are ready to use drivers for most popular programming languages like PHP,Python, Perl, Ruby, JavaScript, C++ + more.

Hypertable

Hypertable is a high performance distributed data storage system designed to support applications requiring maximum performance, scalability, and reliability.

It is modeled after Google's BigTable and mostly focuses on large-scale datasets.

Apache CouchDB

A document-oriented database that can be queried and indexed in a MapReduce fashion using JavaScript.

CouchDB offers a RESTful JSON API which can be accessed from any environment allowing HTTP requests

Neo4j

It is an embedded, disk-based, and fully transactional Java persistence engine that stores data structured in graphs rather than tables.

Neo4j offer a massive scalability. It can handle graphs of several billion nodes/relationships/properties on a single machine and can be scaled across multiple machines.

Riak

Riak is a very ideal database for web applications as it combines:

• a decentralized key-value store
• a flexible map/reduce engine
• a friendly HTTP/JSON query interface.

Oracle Berkeley DB

It is an embeddable database engine that provides developers with fast, reliable, local persistence with zero administration.

Oracle Berkeley DB is a library that links directly into your application & enables you to make simple function calls rather than sending messages to a remote server for a better performance.

Apache Cassandra

Cassandra is a highly scalable second-generation distributed database that is used by giants like Facebook, Digg, Twitter, Cisco & more..

It aims to provide a consistent, fault-tolerant & highly available environment for storing data.

Memcached

Memcached is an in-memory key-value store for small chunks of arbitrary data (strings, objects) from results of database calls, API calls, or page rendering.

It is intended for use in speeding up dynamic web applications by alleviating database load.

Firebird

Firebird is a relational database that can run on Linux, Windows & various UNIX platforms.

It offers high performance and powerful language support for stored procedures and triggers.

Redis

Redis is an advanced fast key-value database written in C which can be used like memcached, in front of a traditional database, or on its own.

It has support for many programming languages & used by popular projects like GitHub or Engine Yard.

There is also a PHP client named Rediska for managing Redis databases.

HBase

HBase is a distributed & column-oriented store which can also be called as the Hadoop database.

The project aims to host very large tables like "billions of rows, millions of columns".

It has a  REST-ful web service gateway that supports XML, Protobuf, and binary data encoding options.

Keyspace

It is a consistently replicated, fault-tolerant key-value store that works in Windows OS.

Keyspace offers high availability by masking server/network failures & appearing as a single, highly available service.

4store

4store is a database storage and query engine that holds RDF data.

It is written in ANSI C99, designed to run on UNIX-like systems & offers a high performance, scalable & stable platform.

MariaDB

MariaDB is a backward compatible, drop-in replacement branch of the MySQL® Database Server.

It includes all major open source storage engines + the Maria storage engine.

Drizzle

It is a fork of MySQL that focuses on being a reliable database optimized for Cloud and Net applications.

HyperSQL

It is a SQL relational database engine written in Java.

HyperSQL offers a small & fast database engine which has in-memory and disk-based tables, supports embedded/server modes.

Also, it has tools such as a command line SQL tool & GUI query apps.

MonetDB

MonetDB is a  database system for high-performance applications in data mining, OLAP, GIS, XML Query, text & multimedia retrieval.

Persevere

It is an object storage engine and application server (running on Java/Rhino) that provides storage of dynamic JSON data for rapidly develop data-driven JavaScript-based rich internet applications.

eXist-db

eXist-db is built using XML technology. It stores XML data according to the XML data model & features efficient, index-based XQuery processing.

Others

• Gladius (PHP flat-file database)
• CloudStore
  
• OpenQM (multivalue database)
• ScarletDME (multivalue database)
• SmallSQL (Java Desktop SQL Database Engine)
• LucidDB
  
• HyperGraphDB (graph database)
• InfoGrid (graph database)
• Apache Derby
  
• hamsterdb
  
• H2 Database
  
• EyeDB
  
• txtSQL
  
• db4o
  
• Tokyo Cabinet
  
• Project Voldemort

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It is built with PHP, has an Ajaxed interface & can restore databases as well.

The application can work with gb-level huge databases as it easily bypasses the timeout limits of PHP by pausing/starting backup jobs.

Sypex Dumper can optionally check, optimize & repair tables or automatically delete older backups to save space.

It has support for file compression (Gzip and Bzip2) & offers a multilingual interface.

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• for guests: just view the tables
• for administrator: view, edit, add/delete pages

The script comes with a web-based installer that guides you to define the database connection information.

After that, you can customize the fields of the database by selecting if they can be sorted, edited, in which order they will be displayed & more.

DHX Quick Tables is very functional who wants to build an instant backend for their applications or create an interface that will display a tabular data.

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It has 3 independent components:

• Database wrapper – for CRUD operations
• Validation module – provides a comprehensive data validation
• Database manipulation module – used for creating databases, tables, etc.

The queries written with Crystal are database-independent which currently supports MySQL & PostgreSQL (SQLite is on the way).

For anyone who is familiar with SQL, learning Crystal wouldn't take no more than 5 minutes.

And, for many developers, it can be an option against framework-specific database layers like Zend_Db and Codeigniter's active record library or complex ORM's like Doctrine.

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It allows you to create forms for inserting-updating data & generates reports with that data.

The back-ends are created with PHP/JavaScript & the data is stored in a MySQL database.

nuBuilder can be used to create complex applications like accounting systems or simple lists like customer phone numbers.

It  has built-in components like permissions, search screens & data validation that makes the development process faster.

The application can be expanded with modules & plugins.

nuBuilder is also a handy application for web developers who create a web-app & want to put it online as quickly as possible without spending time on building the back-end for it (at least for a while).

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It offers full table management (including indexes), supports MySQL views, imports/exports from SQL/CSV files & compatible with MySQL 3/4/5 databases.

The application supports SSH tunnel connections besides standard local & remote connections for reaching databases behind firewalls.

It can connect to multiple databases at the same time, offers automatic syntax highlighting for your custom queries, supports ~30 different encoding options & much more.

P.S. The project is open source & you can check the source for improving it further.

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Factual is a website which can be a quick solution for reaching data. It is a free-to-use platform where anyone can share & mash open data on any subject.

There are lots of different data tables provided like:

• Video Games & Cheats
• Popular Books of the 1990s and 2000s
• Hiking Trails
• American Idol Finalists
• Beer Qualities
• & much more

It is possible to view the data in a table form, make changes, filter or export as a CSV file. Also, all data can be reached via Factual API which we’ll probably be seeing lots of applications built around it.

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Besides the standard "add, edit, copy, delete, view" functionality, records can be paged, searched & exported to CSV.

It is possible to JOIN multiple tables to generate a custom view (+ apply any other functions on this view) with the help of a configuration file. Also, column names displayed can be customized for a better presentation.

MySQL Ajax Table Editor has permissions support which can be set on a per column or table basis for limiting functions.

Users can hide/show & re-order columns which is very useful when working with the data.

The application works with both PHP4 & PHP5 and comes with 5 ready-to-use languages where new ones can be created.

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