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Undb – Private first, unified, self-hosted no code database

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Re: Undb – Private first, unified, self-hosted no code database

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I'm trying to understand what am I looking at. MS Access like db+ui in browser, with homemade engine and no sql support? What are guarantees here, concurenncy, isolation, single user? Not much on the main page.

From what I can gather, it looks to be somewhat of a self-hosted alternative to Airtable

Re: Undb – Private first, unified, self-hosted no code database

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I'm trying to understand what am I looking at. MS Access like db+ui in browser, with homemade engine and no sql support? What are guarantees here, concurenncy, isolation, single user? Not much on the main page.

DB engine appears to be sqlite. It's in the tags on the main page and there's a file full of sql to create what looks like a sample db in the data/ dir.

Re: Undb – Private first, unified, self-hosted no code database

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I'm trying to understand what am I looking at. MS Access like db+ui in browser, with homemade engine and no sql support? What are guarantees here, concurenncy, isolation, single user? Not much on the main page.

DB engine appears to be sqlite. It's in the tags on the main page and there's a file full of sql to create what looks like a sample db in the data/ dir.

Would prefer mainline DB engine like Postgres or MySQL

Re: Undb – Private first, unified, self-hosted no code database

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I'm trying to understand what am I looking at. MS Access like db+ui in browser, with homemade engine and no sql support? What are guarantees here, concurenncy, isolation, single user? Not much on the main page.

DB engine appears to be sqlite. It's in the tags on the main page and there's a file full of sql to create what looks like a sample db in the data/ dir.

Sqlite is fine, could we call this product somehow differently? I don't feel it's database, it's database frontend or smth.

Re: Undb – Private first, unified, self-hosted no code database

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That looks interesting!

I currently use NocoDB with a MariaDB database, so I can't easily switch over as Undb doesn't support MySQL as I see. But it has the feature I'm missing in NocoDB: a Calendar View which funnily NocoDB promoted on their website but doesn't have [1]. I guess I'll give it a try!

[1] https://github.com/nocodb/nocodb/discussions/832

Re: Undb – Private first, unified, self-hosted no code database

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

DB engine appears to be sqlite. It's in the tags on the main page and there's a file full of sql to create what looks like a sample db in the data/ dir.

Sqlite is fine, could we call this product somehow differently? I don't feel it's database, it's database frontend or smth.

You are right, it's not a database, so I call it undb :P

Re: Undb – Private first, unified, self-hosted no code database

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I'm trying to understand what am I looking at. MS Access like db+ui in browser, with homemade engine and no sql support? What are guarantees here, concurenncy, isolation, single user? Not much on the main page.

Undb handles reference for you, which is always most hard/difficult part to handle in most lowcode system, so it's not just a database frontend. It's like MS access when you link reference in the access ui, but undb can also handle lookup & rollup in browser
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