> I built exactly this. The idea was to make databases look and feel like a file manager where databases are shown as folder, tables as subfolders and rows are shown as files that once open shows a fully editable form ... It understands foreign keys and create relevant links to easily navigate through.
I thought that was the whole point of e.g. LibreOffice Base and the like? (including Paradox, Access, etc.) So you built a web-based clone?
It's more of an elaborate answer to the infamous ftp comment from when Dropbox did launch in 2007 here on HN (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863). At its root, the project tries to solve the Dropbox problem by abstracting the storage aspect so that you can bring your own backend by implementing a simple interface.
The mysql plugin is just an implementation of that model to enable non nerds to crud a database without braking anything. I did a few one of those implementations: FTP, SFTP, S3, ... Mysql is just one of those "for the sake of science" one to be put in the same bag as the LDAP one: https://www.filestash.app/ldap-browser.html
I thought that was the whole point of e.g. LibreOffice Base and the like? (including Paradox, Access, etc.) So you built a web-based clone?