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My experience with using database applications is limited to authoring in MS Access and is out-of-date by more than six years. I need to produce several unique databases and plan to hire someone to construct them in the near future. Unfortunately, I do not have the skill-set to even know where to begin this process. Would you please recommend database application(s) that meet the following criteria:

  1. App must be readily available and unlikely to be discontinued in the next 12 months.
  2. App should be relatively popular with the current user base.
  3. App must be able to utilize hundreds of thousands of individual records.
  4. App must be accessible for data entry and reporting by hundreds of concurrent users.
  5. App must be accessible via the WWW for data entry and reporting.
  6. App should be accessible via the Internet for maintenance and structural revisions.
  7. App should be as cost effective as possible. (Open-source alternatives are acceptable.)
  8. App with WYSIWYG editing capabilities would be a bonus since it would allow me to make simple revisions to the DB.

Thank you very much for your time and effort on my behalf.

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There is probably no database app (as in one that requires a DBA) that allows the client/UI features of Access combined with the RDBMS power. Typically you have a web site that talks to a back-end database: never all in one like Access or FoxPro or that Lotus thing. – gbn Sep 16 '11 at 12:27
Therefore I'm punting this to another website once I discuss with some other mods. Closed for now – jcolebrand♦ Sep 16 '11 at 14:45

closed as too localized by jcolebrand♦ Sep 16 '11 at 14:45

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