OpenOffice sbase

OpenOffice.org Base is the newest module of the office suite. It was integrated on version 2.0 of the product and consist on a front end and a new xml database engine called HdbSQL.

OOoBase interface is also plugabble to other database systems through ODBC or JDBC. OOoBase is often use to design database in MySQL, PosgreSQL, dBase and Sqlite. OOoBase requires Java to work with all of its tools.

OOoBase includes:
 * SQL Editor
 * Wizard DB Builder
 * Report Engine
 * Form designer
 * Table designer

The community is currently building sample database models for business and organizations in order to have a repository that will help users to implement their solution quicker and with a lesser learning curve. You can see this sample database at Example Base. The current project dedicated to the base module can be found at http://dba.openoffice.org/.