Description: DBMan is a full-featured Database Manager that provides a web interface to add, remove, modify or view records in a flatfile ascii database. It supports an advanced user management system, as well as a powerful permissions system

Installation: It is not difficult to install. Setting up a custom database to mach your website style is another matter!

Stability: Other than a few minor bugs, this is a very stable script. It is surprising that the minor bugs have never been fixed since they were relatively easy to fix.

Strengths:

• This script is fast.
•  Versatile: It can be adapted (modified) to almost any style or situation.
• Database Fields are easily set up in a configuration file.
• Admin feature easily allows you to add, modify or delete users.
• User permissions are very versatile.
• Users can be allowed to sign up for their own account.
• Users can delete and modify their own data if so desired.

Weaknesses:

• Steep learning curve.
• If you want this database to look good, you must heavily modify (update) a CGI file that generates all the database output.
• Admin feature only allows you to take care of the users.

Description: EZDB © is a flat database management tool allowing you to connect to many database, handling multiple users and groups accounts. You create your own HTML code to input and output data, and the configuration is as EZ as it can be. It comes with a powerful search engine displaying result in a fully customizable way.

Installation: It is not difficult to install. There are quite a few directories and permissions to set however. Once that is completed, almost everything can be set up and modified from the admin panel.

Stability: Stable but its slow speed makes it seem otherwise.

Strengths:

• This script is slow.
•  Although it probably does everything you want 'as is', I found that it can be quite constricting if you decide you want to go outside the box.
• All database functions are handled through a admin screen.
• Many options for user and database permissions.
• Users can delete and modify their own data if so desired.
• A very security conscious script.

Weaknesses:

• Very steep learning curve.
• You must know a lot about database structure and theory to get this to work well.
• Slow script due to all the security checking.

Installation: MySQLMan is a web based database manager. It allows you to perform common maintenance and administration tasks in Mysql (Mysql is a great mostly-free SQL database server). MySQLMan was based off of PHPmyadmin, but written in Perl. It allows you to do common tasks like:

• browse/create/drop databases
• browse/search/create/drop/alter tables
• import/export data
• add/remove/alter table columns
• add/remove/alter table keys

Stability : Yes

Strengths:

• Does all it says

Weaknesses:

• No option to act as a front end  or go between for 'your' web pages

Description: WebDB 8.0 provides clients with a web interface that enables them to manage databases and organize information on a customized platform. Clients are able to access shared databases from wherever they are. Not only are they able to read information but they are also able to add to, modify, delete and search from multiple databases based on keyword recognition.

WebDB is the foundation of eXtropia's open source ADT. With WebDB 8.0 clients have a swift, convenient, flexible productivity tool for managing information. The product includes an Address Book, Project Tracker, Inventory Manager, News Publisher, and allows email notification and logging. It also has an integrated authentication feature compatible with standard UNIX, DB, LDAP, or NTLM. Users are able to turn on and off features as required.

This product is ideally suited for business people on the move who need instant access to company or client information. It is also a great management tool for companies and organisations in terms of project coordination, inventory control, client management and information dissemination.

Installation: Basic installation is easy. However, if you want to design your own databases and applications, you have a lot of reading to do. The manual is very good though.

Stability : Yes

Strengths:

• Does all it says.
• Comes with many many pre designed usefull databases out of the box.

Weaknesses:

• Slow
• Not easy to learn but worth it.