alpha five is a relational database management system and rapid application development system (rad) for building windows desktop and web (including ajax) applications.the most recent version of the product—alpha five v11 was released in october 2011.
alpha five v11 is a major new release with mapping, scheduling, video, image gallery, html5 support along with a single tool for web and mobile app development approach.
in 2010 alpha five was rated #1 by infoworld in the rapid web application development category.
alpha five is developed by alpha software, inc., which has been continually producing enduser and developer database application software since 1982.
applications with full read/write/edit capability can be created against its builtin dbf engine and against mysql, oracle, ms sql server, db2, enterprisedb, postgresql and any other sql database engines through odbc sources, like ms access mdb files. the latest version now incorporates portable sql, a feature that allows users to switch database back ends without having to rewrite queries.