SW Developers - Databases

[Ray Singh]

My wife is looking after a research project for the NHS. She has collected a lot of data. MS Excel doesn’t seem to be able to cope with the vast amount of data now and we are keen to find a better tool to conduct statistical analysis.

Is Postgress or Mongo any better? Can a beginner on these learn how to use them pretty easily? Are the functions easy to understand as she is required to do lots of filtering, comparing etc?

They already have a tool as a db store that they use to keep this data, but this is limited in terms of functionality. Ideally they would have a new DB with the interegation tools built in.

Any help appreciated.

[Ray Singh]

Budget is the barrier. They really cannot afford to do anything and the current solution data base is shocking. We have to export the data to excel and then manipulate it here, but it will often crash.

I will look into researching what is best for her application.

R