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Tiny Tiny RSS is an open source and web-based feed reader application that offers a desktop-like user experience.

It is built with PHP, uses MySQL or PostgreSQL for storing data and makes use of the Magpie and SimplePie libraries (check PHP RSS Parsers) for fetching the feeds.

The interface is completely Ajaxed, there is support for RSS, RDF + Atom and protected/authenticated feeds can be read as well.

Tiny Tiny RSS not only fetches data but can re-publish them as well (again as a RSS feed). The data is also reachable via a JSON-based API.

The application supports multiple users, it is multilingual and has a mobile-version as well.

And, there are many other features like OPML import/export, keyboard shortcuts, duplicate content filtering or article scoring.

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Bricolage is an open-source and enterprise-class content management system that makes creating, managing and publishing content very easy.

It is built with Perl, uses MySQL or PostgreSQL for storing data and has a powerful templating system (Mason, Template Toolkit, or PHP).

With the help of this templating system and the flexibility offered on every step, it is possible to build any type of websites.

Bricolage has a group and permission based user management system that eases working as a team where some users can be editors, others being designers, etc.

Besides many other standard CMS features, there is a very handy and built-in alert system which can be setup for many events like an article going online, being edited, etc. to get notified instantly.

Also, there is a well-documented API which enables you to pull and push any type of data from the system.

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DaDaBIK is an open source and mature PHP application for creating a customizable database front-end without coding.

Within minutes, you can create a basic CRUD (create, read, update, delete) application or dive into its features to build a more complicated one.

It doesn't generate a PHP script, stores the settings and can easily adapt to changes made in the database schema.

The application works with MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle + MS SQL Server and has features like choosing:

• if the field must be included or not in a search/insert/update form and results table
• labels
• content format (e.g. numeric, alphabetic, e-mail, url…)of a field
• the HTML input type (e.g. textbox, menu, date, rich text editor, password box…)
• the possible values, also driven from another table (foreign key support)
• and much more…

Some other exciting features include:

• master/details view (attaching 2 or more tables to each other like choosing a user from "users" table and seeing his orders from "orders" table)
• file uploading
• exporting to CSV
• e-mail notices

DaDaBIK is multilingual with support for 10+ languages.

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There are many database editors with advanced features, but sometimes, a smaller and simpler tool is all we need.

DBKiss is a MySQL and PostgreSQL manager application that is only a single PHP file.

It has most of the features you can ask for including:

• import/export of data
• searching of the whole database or single tables
• an advanced SQL editor
• saving of templates
• multi-query execution with pagination

Also, it is compatible with MySQL versions 3.23 through 5.x and PHP 4 or 5.

Simply, it is a must-have for every developer, specially for the ones who need to work with different databases from time-to-time and need a quick solution.

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OTRS is an open source trouble ticket system for easily managing support requests in a multi-agent interface.

The application can auto-convert e-mails into tickets (e-mail piping) which "eliminates the need of using the web interface" for customers.

OTRS is used by large organizations like Opera, MySQL AB, BitDefender, Suse & has very nice features like:

• transfer of tickets between agents
• auto-calculation of hours worked on a ticket
• powerful reporting
• canned responses
• multilanguage support
• themable web interface
• role-based user management
• & much more..

OTRS is built with Perl & can work with different databases (e. g. MySQL, PostgeSQL, Oracle, DB2 and MSSQL).

It has one-click installers for multiple operating systems (including Windows).

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Almost every web developer has a favorite database that he/she feels comfortable working with as all the tricks & gimmicks are already experienced.

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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Crystal is a database toolkit for PHP which aims to help developers build & scale reusable, database-dependent, framework-agnostic applications.

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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InDefero is an open source software forge application, built with PHP, that enables anyone to create a multi-project Google Code/Sourceforge-like system to manage their codes.

It eases tracking bugs, providing downloads, documentation and having an easy overview of the code base both for you & your team.

Also, it makes communicating with the user-base possible which is vital for a healthy development process.

InDefero has other powerful features like:

• every user has their personal dashboards
• code browser with git, Subversion & Mercurial support
• project timeline
• powerful search engine
• diff visualization of the commits
• inline display of text files from the repository with syntax highlighting
• & much more..

It requires a webserver supporting PHP as module or fast-cgi & PostgreSQL, SQLite or MySQL 4.1+ as the database to run.

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Last week, a post had announced the giveaway of a Navicat Premium license ($369/value) to a lucky WRD reader. The winner is selected. But before that, to remind:

Navicat Premium is a cross-browser database admin tool which can manage MySQL, PostgreSQL & Oracle within a single application.

Data & tables stored in any type of supported databases can be converted into another very easily which makes working with multiple database types so easy.

The application also comes with the standard & handy features of other Navicat products like:

• advanced import/ export wizard
• query builder
• report builder
• data synchronization
• backup
• job scheduler
• & more

Special 50% Discount to WebResourcesDepot Readers:

Navicat is offering a 50% discount to WRD readers for Navicat Premium. To get the discount, you need to choose the "Shareit" as the payment option and use the coupon code: webpre50.

Note: Discount will be available for 1 more week (until 17 July 2009).

The Winner Of Navicat Premium License Giveaway:

The query below is used:

SELECT * FROM wp_comments WHERE comment_post_id=1028 AND comment_approved=1 AND comment_type='' GROUP BY comment_author_email ORDER BY RAND() LIMIT 1

& the winner is "aj (comment #58688)". Congratulations to the winner & thanks to everyone for joining the giveaway.

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Navicat, an impressive database admin tool which has versions to manage specific databases is now offering an unique tool named Navicat Premium which can manage:

• MySQL
• PostgreSQL
• Oracle

within a single application with amazing features.

Navicat Premium allows you to control these 3 database types like they are the same & saves you too much time. You can:

• drag’n drop tables from Oracle to MySQL, PostgreSQL to MySQL and vice versa
• schedule operations for different databases such as print report in MySQL, backup data in Oracle and synchronize data in PostgreSQL to run automatically

The application comes with all the nice features of the Navicat family:

• advanced import/ export wizard
• query builder
• report builder
• data synchronization
• backup
• job scheduler
• & more

For anyone who works cross-database, Navicat Premium is a must-have software that removes all the headache of working with multiple applications & compatibility problems between databases.

It is available for two platforms – Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X.

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Note: Discount will be available for 2 weeks starting today (until 17 July 2009)

One Navicat Premium License Giveaway (How To Win It?)

To get a chance to win a free license ($369 value) of this beautiful application, simply comment to this post with your thoughts. The winner will be selected randomly on 10 July 2009 (1 week later) randomly via the query below:

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