IBM Lotus Approach is described as 'Lotus Approach is the award-winning relational database designed to manage, analyze and report on business information. It offers breakthrough ease of use, unprecedented cross-product integration, connectivity, and outstanding power and analysis capabilities' and is a relational database in the development category. There are more than 25 alternatives to IBM Lotus Approach for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, BSD and Web-based apps. The best IBM Lotus Approach alternative is SQLite, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like IBM Lotus Approach are PostgreSQL, MySQL Community Edition, MongoDB and MariaDB.