dbFront
Quickly create dynamic and powerful web applications using all the power of your MySQL, Oracle or SQL Server database.
- Freemium • Proprietary
- Windows
- Online
- Self-Hosted
- Software as a Service (SaaS)
What is dbFront?
dbFront is a simple to administer and use web application, that allows you to quickly build a client interface for your existing database that is immediately useful. You can create dynamic and powerful web applications using all the power of your existing SQL Server, MySQL or Oracle database.
Features: = Setup =
- Installer allows setup within 5 minutes
- Simple One Server setup OR Complex Distributed Server setup
- MS SQL Server, MySql or Oracle,
- Updates itself as database structure changes
- Export / Import / Data Conversion
= Tables =
- Table Types: Main, Child, Lookup or System
- Automatically show related tables
- Automatically turn related fields into Lookup Fields
- Quick Search or Custom Search
- Action Buttons (Set Value, Run Procedure, PDF Form or Open URL)
- Ability to link Table Views
= Fields =
- Field Types: Text, Numeric, Date, Lookup, Object (pictures or attachments)
- Regular Expression Validation
= Layout =
- Themeable
- Custom CSS
- Dynamic Columns
= Reporting =
- Quick Reports
- Data Exports / Imports
- Link to external Report Server or custom Report Pages
= Security =
- Active Directory or NTLM
- Database Security
- Single Sign-On
- User Profiles
- Row Level Security
= Licensing =
- Trial: 30 days
- Free: Limited Functionality
- Pro, Enterprise, Site
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Supported Languages
- English
Comments and Reviews
Tags
- Microsoft SQL Server
- mysql-databases
- Database
- oracle-databases
- Office & Productivity
- web-application
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DevelopmentRecent user activities on dbFront
Arlington4added dbFront as alternative(s) to CodeIgniter Wizard
Arlington4doesn't think DBeaver is an alternative to dbFrontDbeaver is a database design and management tool, dbFront is a client builder for the end-user.
Maoholguinedited dbFront
Quite simply, this product lets you use the power of a database to maintain & report on your data without the need for any front end programming. Providing you use foreign key constraints to maintain your data relationships dbFront will do the rest for you. It provides you with effective control over user authentication & database access and auditing. You can determine which columns to display or hide, which to allow to be read only and which are required. You also have control over the sequence in which columns are shown on the screen. It handles lookup tables well with the ability to sequence the lookup drop down data in any sequence you like. If you want to add business logic into all of this you can always utilise back end database triggers and the dbFront provided Action Buttons. It allows you to easily define who can Read/Update/Delete rows on any table. I needed dbFront because although I am an experienced database designer/developer my user interface development skills are sadly way out of date. dbFront allows me to provide a standardised front end for my users to maintain and report on their data. The support I have received from the dbFront team has been excellent.
Only just started using this but it's very easy to use and if there are any issues the support is fantastic. Looking forward to getting more in depth with the programme.
This is a very versatile and easy to use product to give you a well laid out front end to your database. And the support is fantastic!
Thank you for the review and you're very welcome.
Reply written ago
Excellent product! The customer service and help from Anthony is amazing!!
I cant say enough good things about dbFront. I was in need of a quick way to update info in an old MSSQL 2000 db. The first app I came across was dbFront. I haven't had to look any further. I had a small issue setting it up due to it being connected to an old MSSQL 2000 db, but I contacted support and they released a new version that worked right away. I hadnt even committed to buying it yet. Hows that for great support? Once I got the db connected, setting the UI up to my requirements was a breeze.
If you need a easy to use UI for your db, dbFront is for you!
Thanks for the great review!
Reply written ago
After looking and tiring lot of frontend db software to be chip easy to use and maintain, i had found dBfront. Every single dollar is worth. The support is excellent, almost like a personal treat. The software performances, and it's web frontend are almost perfect. The developer is attentive to users requests and features. For me, it's an elite software.
We're using dbFront as the front end to our own in house data warehouse design, we make a separate warehouse per business area and thus have multiple warehouses to create/manage. We tried to create our own solution and dbFront offers more features, has a friendlier interface and is generally a huge improvement over what we'd managed to make.
On the one hand it is just an interface between the user and SQL (in our case it's a SQL database or ten) but the implementation of drop down boxes, buttons to fire off stored procs and general flexibility of how it can display things is leading us to find more and more uses for it.
We currently have the warehouse design section and another section for users to update the necessary manual tables in various processes and dbFront is the friendly face they see. I've had to do no coding, very little in terms of learning how it works as it's an intuitive interface and every time I've faced an issue with what I was trying to do I had support I could rely on.
Oh and if you can think of something which dbFront might be able to do or would be useful if it could do, they're not afraid to take the idea on board and work on achieving the goal.