Great multi-purpose database!!

Feature-rich, very well thought out, really EASY TO HANDLE, much more than a “participants database”, this plug-in provides us with a full-blown and immensly configurable database for all kinds of uses.
There′s not much i would wish for, as nearly everything is achievable (sometimes with tricking out the interface a bit).
E.g. i’m using it for a web-database providing users with the possibility to publish website-reviews, magazine-reviews, events, job-offers and classified ads via one simple form (staged with some html-tricks). works like a charm. content can be imported/exportet via CSV.

even better: database is integrated within the WP-database so it′s fairly simple to collect and filter data also outside the built-in easy-managable filter/view-options (shortcuts).

there′s only one thing: it′s a “flat database” (no relational database management system) and therefore not directly offering relations to other user-generated tables. while it would be the absolute killer offering also relations, many developers won’t need it or will find a way-around.

PROs

• swiss knife for simple and not-so-simple database tasks
• great interface
• extensivly configurable
• better performance than the (way mightier) PODS-system
• and it’s free (compared to TYPES, which is free only without forms and filter, which you have to buy for about $150 min.)

CONs

• flat database approach when out-of-the-box

Luvvvvid! Hey… let us gladly pay some bucks and have a relational db, too?