theKompany.com is pleased to announce the 1.0 release of Rekall, a personal, programmable DBMS system for KDE. The product is now feature complete and works with xBase, MySQL and PostgreSQL out of the box.
With Rekall you will be able to quickly and easily build database applications using Rekall forms and reports. A full complement of widgets means that applications built in Rekall will be able to have the look and feel of any other application. Rekall applications can be extended in their functionality to perform virtually any task via embedded Python as a scripting language.
Ever since the release of dBase many years ago, the idea of a programmable DBMS has become increasingly popular. Major systems have been written in applications like Paradox and MS Access. By focusing on the database, users are able to leverage their business knowledge into working applications. One of the limitations of the aforementioned products is that their native database didn't scale well or support multiple users very well. Rekall avoids this problem by dispensing with a native database.
Rekall 1.0 Changes
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Compared to Rekall 0.7, release 1.0 mostly contains bug fixes.
The main additions are:
* Copiers can be invoked from scripts
* Scripts can dynamically build and execute forms and reports (this is very basic, release 1.1 will improve support for this)
* The PostgreSQL driver handles "serial" columns correctly
Rekall Components and the Demo Database
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There are four RPMs to install:
korelib-0.8 library loader package
xbase-2-0.0 XBase routines
xbsql-0.7 SQL wrapper for XBase routines
rekall-1.0 Rekall itself
The tarball RekallDemo.tgz contains a demonstration database. There are actually three copies of the database, one using MySQL, one PostgreSQL and one XBase/XBSQL.
By purchasing Rekall you are getting the source for the application and free electronic updates to the application. With the next major release of Rekall we will be adding Windows support and Mac OS X support will soon follow, you get all supported platforms for one price regardless of when they are released. Rekall is priced at $79.95 for the physical package and $69.95 for the electronic package.
