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I’m honestly really blown away by this. Are there other such tools out there that do a similar thing?
Datastation is sorta similar but in my brief experience the description is more aspirational at this stage. https://datastation.multiprocess.io/
It is indeed early stages (I started it not yet a year ago).
I'd love to hear any feedback you've got.
In general every release gets more stable, more automated tests, better performance, etc.
Shameless plug: I built a similar, web-based tool for exploring a database at www.human.software
Awesome tool the UI is really smart. Shameless plug: I built a similar, web-based tool for exploring a database at www.human.software
Surprised there isn’t SQLite support. Perhaps it’s in the works. Also surprised this is a native app, would have expected a web application. In any case, compelling demo.
I’m honestly really blown away by this. Are there other such tools out there that do a similar thing?
Ask HN: Best low-/no-code solution for simple web-based database frontends
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26657803
(208 points on April 1, 2021 | 142 comments)
Someone who builds something like this in form of an Excel plugin will have a real winner. And if you do, and when you make your millions, please send me a check as a show of gratitude :)
I know there are some but I wonder what the size of the entire segment is... 95%+ [ of places will never allow installation of anything extra!
Surprised there isn’t SQLite support. Perhaps it’s in the works. Also surprised this is a native app, would have expected a web application. In any case, compelling demo.
who is going to pay for a database access tool that requires you punch an incoming hole in your firewall?
Here’s some more information on Ultorg: > Ultorg creates general-purpose software that helps organizations manage their data. Based on a new method for interactive data visualization, our product combines ease-of-use with expressive power to allow end-users to query, display, and edit relational data, without resorting to custom programming. This fills a long-standing gap between spreadsheets and tailor-made database…
I wonder how much the data in the demo helps sell the readability and space-efficiency. Like anything looks tidy if there's 3-4 rows of data being joined. But that sort of well behaved small-scale hello world database isn't difficult to work with in any tool. How does it handle if the table I join pulls in a thousand matching rows for each key?
(Author of Ultorg here.)
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I wonder how much the data in the demo helps sell the readability and space-efficiency. Like anything looks tidy if there's 3-4 rows of data being joined. But that sort of well behaved small-scale hello world database isn't difficult to work with in any tool. How does it handle if the table I join pulls in a thousand matching rows for each key?
> I wonder how much the data in the demo helps sell the readability and space-efficiency. This is a very good question.. In the section of the video on automatic form layout it is strongly implied that the auto-layout is driven by semantic inference of the column names. I see this easily breaking -- anyone who's ever inherited a production database knows that column names are often cryptic or context specific. Also m…
(Coincidentally, the system is named after a cryptic, context-specific column name in a real dataset the author once worked on.)
Here’s some more information on Ultorg: > Ultorg creates general-purpose software that helps organizations manage their data. Based on a new method for interactive data visualization, our product combines ease-of-use with expressive power to allow end-users to query, display, and edit relational data, without resorting to custom programming. This fills a long-standing gap between spreadsheets and tailor-made database…
> our product combines ease-of-use with expressive power to allow end-users to query, display, and edit relational data, without resorting to custom programming. This fills a long-standing gap between spreadsheets and tailor-made database applications. How does it compare to Access or LibreOffice Base? That's always been the next step once the spreadsheet proves inadequate.
Back when Ultorg was an academic project, we did a controlled user study comparing Ultorg's visual query interface (then called SIEUFERD) to Microsoft Access' query builder. Using the System Usability Scale, Ultorg's usability was in the 52th percentile (better than 52% of business software), while Microsoft Access was 6th(!) percentile (better than 6% of business software, i.e. worse than 94% of business software). (Source: https://people.csail.mit.edu/ebakke/research/sieuferd_sigmod... )