I use Oracle 9i, and hopefully soon 10g (fingers crossed) on the lighter clients, i've played with MySQL which seems pretty good, and there is also one called point base, which i believe is shipped with netbeans 3 (Sun One)..

I also once applied for a trial of SQL server and they sent me a copy, which i just reinstalled after the 30 days were up... naughty i know!

What do you actually need the back end for? obvioulsy data storage, but are we talking GB's or just playing with structures?!


Andy