 Having tested product capabilities of handling various tasks I think I can drop few words of what I’ve come up with concerning each discussed problem.
Having tested product capabilities of handling various tasks I think I can drop few words of what I’ve come up with concerning each discussed problem.I don’t want my readers to get lost in a bunch of my posts, so just in order to simplify skimming the blog I will sum up the final results of each testing issue.
If someone wants to simply skip all "why" and step-by-step explanations but just find out the result, for those I will write a concise final review of each item.
Let’s start with tests of capability to handle large data sets. I haven’t even planned to test 7 services, but it turned out I was that curious.
Results of Large Data Set Importing (20 000)
| Product | Results | Impression | 
|---|---|---|
| Dabble DB | First try failed, a bit later support guys fixed the bug | Didn’t expect that initially the developers had not assumed this need of users | 
| Coghead | I managed to import my data. In general after the completion of importing I had no problems with data navigation, filters, searches etc. | 20 000 records is not that large volume to scare off Coghead. The settings of the program puzzled a bit. | 
| TeamDesk | Positive result. All data was easily imported. TeamDesk had no problems searching the data and building reports of such data volume. | It seems TeamDesk system handles large data volumes easily, but some functions are to be tuned yet. Implementation process was not that cumbersome. | 
| QuickBase | Proved to be quick importing 20K. Successfully. | In general the approach is pretty holistic. It was simple and didn’t require any additional steps. | 
| TrackVia | The simplest way of importing such data amount. | The guys resorted to cunning: the moment where other offered to define field types and name them is implicitly transferred to Excel. | 
| Caspio | The import process ran pretty smoothly. All data imported. | I have met my expectations, but I have an impression that the system is developed rather for more tech savvy users, than for non techies. | 
| Zoho Creator | First shot completely failed. The second one was successful. | In a couple of days Zoho support changed it and added missing functionality. But it didn't feel like finished and mature product. | 
So, this is what I’ve managed to find out. Make a reasonable choice!
 
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