I am currently looking at FileMaker, but I want to be sure I'm not overlooking any other valid options. Thank you for the suggestion to post this on SpiceWorks. We're not ready to walk away from the Access program yet since it would require writing an automated utility to export out all of the information (encrypted) out of Access and importing it all into the new product (also encrypted but with a different encryption program).

If we could go cross platform onto PC that would be nice, but not required.

We currently have an app for iPhone that we use to view selected exported data. We are looking for the same situation with a Mac solution.įor this version, being able to be used on the Mac will be enough. Our Access program is AES 256 encrypted at all times, even when open, and it is never on the internet. We are not required to be HIPAA compliant, but hold ourselves to a similar standard. Customize your workflow, collaborate, and achieve ambitious outcomes.

I'm aware of the nightmare I'm getting myself in to, but we have many users that have a Mac and don't want to use the Parallels/Windows interface to use our product. Airtable is a low-code platform for building collaborative apps. Being open-source will also allow outsiders to contribute to the project, indirectly contributing to making Apple’s services more secure and reliable for users.Hi chattphotos, thank you for your response. Apple’s goal is to build a community around the project and make FoundationDB the foundation for the next generation of distributed databases. Open-sourcing the project means that it’s now free for any person or company to use. CloudKit is Apple’s cloud database behind many of iCloud’s features including iOS backups, Photos, iWork sharing and iCloud Drive. In a recent paper describing how CloudKit works, engineers mentioned the usage of a NoSQL database to allow app developers to sync user data between devices in a generic and easy-to-use way. Meaning projects that use the database for their backend are faster and less expensive to maintain.įoundationDB was originally founded in 2009 by Dave Rosenthal, Dave Scherer and Nick Lavezzo with the goal of making a NoSQL database that was ACID compliant, a set of properties for databases that are designed to guarantee the integrity of data even when errors occur.Īpple acquired the company in early 2015 and has probably been using it for their iCloud services for the past couple of years. The database system is focused on performance, scalability and fault-tolerance. FoundationDB is described as “a distributed database designed to handle large volumes of structured data across clusters of commodity servers”. Apple has just released a new open source project on Github.

Simple database for mac free