[ddj] GUI database tools for newsrooms

Tue May 26 07:13:16 UTC 2015

I second Elasticsearch. It's amazing.

On Mon, May 25, 2015 at 9:27 PM, Justin Seitz <justin at automatingosint.com>
wrote:

>  One thing that I have used previously is Elasticsearch and Kibana. It is
> a NoSQL database as well, but it allows you to hook up a "river". Rivers
> allow you to attach Elasticsearch to a SQL database so that you can have,
> for example, a Postgres database that you can query traditional SQL against
> but you can have a friendly full text search in the form of Elasticsearch,
> exposed over a nice interface like Kibana.
>
> This seems to fit well with your use case, and I would be more than happy
> to help if you had questions setting it up.
>
>
> https://github.com/jprante/elasticsearch-jdbc/wiki/Step-by-step-recipe-for-setting-up-the-river-with-PostgreSQL
>
> Justin
>
> On 2015-05-25 10:19 PM, Alex Salkever wrote:
>
> I'd be cautious about MongoDB. It's NoSQL and doesn't handle nested data
> very well. It's easy to use if you are only doing things with document
> format but it's not really a SQL tool.
>
> I think the problem is the GUI part. There are loads of hosted solutions
> for DBs but most don't have GUIs that would allow Excel users to work with
> data. That's why I see a lot of people using Google Sheets - because it's
> an Excel flavor but does synch across users and has versioning that can
> easily be rolled back, as well as roles.
>
>
>
>
>
> On Sat, Apr 18, 2015 at 2:18 AM, Michael Saunby <mike at saunby.net> <mike at saunby.net> wrote:
>
>
>  How about using CartoDB?  It's an open source project, so you can host it
> yourself - https://github.com/CartoDB/cartodb
> but there's also free to use and enterprise services http://cartodb.com/
>
> Files in Excel and many other formats can be imported easily.
>
> Michael
>
> On 17 April 2015 at 18:45, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky <znmeb at znmeb.net> <znmeb at znmeb.net> wrote:
>
>
>  On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 12:49 AM, Sam Leon <sam.leon at okfn.org> <sam.leon at okfn.org> wrote:
>
>  I'm looking for a secure hosted database service ideally running
>
>  Postgres in
>
>  the backend which could be queried and updated using SQL commands but
>
>  also
>
>  had a graphical interface for users not familiar with SQL who can
>
>  easily run
>
>  queries and export to CSV. It's for journalists I'm working with who
>
>  have
>
>  various datasets currently in Excel which is a nightmare for
>
>  simultaneous
>
>  work and is exceptionally brittle.
>
> I'm aware of the the PANDA project, wondered if anyone else had any
> tooling/service tips?
>
> Sam
>
>  Some combination of Excel, ODBC, PgAdmin3 and PostgreSQL is probably
> the easiest path out of chaos for you and your users.  A hosted
> PostgreSQL isn't going to be cheap, though - I'd start with free
> desktop installs to get the workflow stabilized.
> http://www.postgresql.org/download/windows/
>
> If you do go the hosted route, you'll need to hire a strong PostgreSQL
> database administrator (DBA) to handle all the backup and security
> stuff. Don't make that a "side task" for someone or you'll either lose
> data or get hacked or both.
>
> The front ends are Excel and PgAdmin3. PgAdmin3 is a GUI tool for
> managing the database but it also has a visual query builder similar
> to the one in MS Access. Excel also has a query builder. ODBC is
> "middleware" that will present a uniform database language to any
> query tool.
>
> After you've got all that nailed down, it's just a small step to R,
> RStudio and the bright world of analysis and visualization described
> in the RStudio cheatsheets
> (http://www.rstudio.com/resources/cheatsheets/). ;-)
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