This is great news, as I think Dabble DB is one of the most innovative services on the web, its web-based hosted structure will open a whole new realm of uses for databases, limited only by user’s creativity.

Having played around with DabbleDB in the beta, I’ve always thought DabbleDB was a far greater technological achievement than the majority of Web 2.0 apps - it’s written in Smalltalk for goodness’ sake! Om draws a comparison between Dabble and Microsoft Visual Basic but I’d say it’s like a slick, online Microsoft Access. It’ll be interesting to see how they deal with scaling issues, but unfortunately the Dabble blog is rather uninformative at the moment.

I saw their demo at a Toronto BarCamp a month or so ago. It was pretty nice and it got a nice round of applause as well. It is also nice to know that a Canadian web startup got funded (don’t hear that too often). Though I am not convinced yet if DabbleDB is a good idea and can be successful.

Being written in Smalltalk would be a negative in my book. Who knows if they will be able to find enough talent to continue iterating or if that plaform can support any sort of scale.

I played with dabble tonight… I really like the user-interface, that’s how web-apps have to be built!! (found it hard to describe it’s user-interface on my blog, though )
what I miss most is data-export, an API to access the data from my own apps, and quite obvious things like an image/BLOB-datatype f. columns. if these features were included, I’ld definitely consider in paying for dabble.

Am I the onhly one who thinks this has made near zero progress since the closed beta? Don’t get me wrong - I love the UI and I really want this to succeed but the lack of obvious calculation functionality renders it near useless in any business scenrio. Which is where any DB should sit. Shouldn’t it?

Apologies for the crappy spelling - onlhy=only…scenrio=scenario…sorry, it’s really late over here.