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Very sad about this. I was searching for a good online, collaborative database, where I can define clear schemas and provide certain views on it, for a small, public database a few friends and me are working on. Fusion Tables seemed to fit the bill as Google Sheets was basically too unstructured for this (basically I tried to find a free, collaborative, simple MS Access)

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Airtable is almost exactly that: a collaborative, simple MS access. It's free for up to 1,200 records, then $10/user/month for more https://airtable.com/pricing

Another vote for Airtable. It's truly a game changer.

Thanks! I've considered it before but not sure anymore why I did not choose it. Though it probably relates to the fact that we are a small volunteer project with insecure funding (i.e. currently none) that tries to keep a records database of contact information up-to-date. This goes hand-in-hand with complex permission management/input controls (i.e. those listed should be able to submit a request for modification or for adding their record) and the possibility for integrating the result in a website. I don't think such integration tools are included in the free version

Why don't you just ask them if you could use it for free? It's not much cost to them and they could do something good.

I've yet to find a silver bullet, though Airtable is pretty solid.

Other options - https://clickup.com/ https://www.obvibase.com/ https://www.caspio.com/ https://www.grubba.net/ https://sodadb.com/

Googling for airtable alternatives will pop up with dozens of others though who knows which will stay around. Airtable seems to have the mindshare to continue to be around.

Try https://cloudbackend.appdrag.com It's a serverless db (and API builder), with structured types and full sql support, also provide a cool UI, Visual SQL, an API and can be shared to co-workers.

You get 500 records for free and 50k records for $10/month (unlimited users)

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