Your business has witnessed growth and you are tired of performing the daily tedious
tasks of saving information about your clients in sheets or physically on paper but now you want database software to perform your everyday business tasks.
But before buying database software you should always make a choice on what to choose from? You have options of buying web database and online database.
Web database refers to database software that runs on web based applications and is more effective in performing the web based tasks.
Online database on the other hand refers to database which are available online for the user to accomplish various tasks. These online database programs and software are provided by a few good software companies that have an expertise over drafting the database.
Then after deciding on the type of database you need to decide on the features that you need according to your requirements and you should also look at the hole which they make in your pocket. The most common desktop database products are Microsoft access and FileMaker pro which are relatively cheaper and are also great for single user or few users. But one thing that you should keep in mind is that these desktop databases are for non interactive web applications.
If you need to accomplish tasks that require web interactions and tasks to do online then you need to buy a web database which can be bought online also.
However if you have heavy duty application and your business requires a network and many tasks to accomplish then you would probably need big software solutions. For instance if you are planning an application like e-commerce or many user database then you would require online database that supports group working over a network or even big networks like internet.
However nowadays almost every database application requires some kind of web interaction but the tasks that they would be able to accomplish would depend on their categories and abilities.
Examples of some online database are oracle and Microsoft SQL server etc. We can also get an online database custom designed to suit our needs so that specific tasks that are not covered by the available database are also covered.