[Simon]

Is there such a thing for the Mac?

I just need to catalogue a couple of thousand scientific articles by tittle, authors, date, journal, etc.

Of course it should be as simple as FileMaker Pro and free. Is there such a thing?

[I posted the original question in the software forum, but then I realized I'm looking for a pure CLI tool, so I decided to post a short version here as well. Please excuse the cross-posting. ]

[Turnpike]

MySQL, perhaps?

[MacGorilla]

Originally posted by Turnpike:
MySQL, perhaps?

You are kidding, right? Simple has never been used to describe MySQL.

[ranga]

You may want to take a look at SQLite.

It is a free db and it comes with a simple cli utility for querying the db and such. It is pretty easy to write a little Cocoa wrapper around the C api. For simple applications SQLite provides several advantages over something like MySQL or PostgreSQL because it doesn't require a separate db server to be running and it stores the db in a single file.

HTH,

--ranga

[philzilla]

Originally posted by MacGorilla:
You are kidding, right? Simple has never been used to describe MySQL.

never? hardly. it's easier than ever, these days. there are far more MySQL tools available for the developer, complete with "Mac-like" GUI's, for those who shun the command line. just because one person finds it hard, doesn't mean everybody does.