<s>
Kexi	B-Language
is	O
a	O
visual	O
database	O
applications	O
creator	O
tool	O
by	O
KDE	B-Application
,	O
designed	O
to	O
fill	O
the	O
gap	O
between	O
spreadsheets	B-Application
and	O
database	O
solutions	O
requiring	O
more	O
sophisticated	O
development	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Kexi	B-Language
can	O
be	O
used	O
for	O
designing	O
and	O
implementing	O
databases	B-Application
,	O
data	O
inserting	O
and	O
processing	O
,	O
and	O
performing	O
queries	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
is	O
developed	O
within	O
the	O
Calligra	B-Application
project	O
but	O
is	O
released	O
separately	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
impetus	O
for	O
developing	O
Kexi	B-Language
came	O
from	O
a	O
noticeable	O
lack	O
of	O
applications	O
having	O
the	O
features	O
of	O
LibreOffice	B-Operating_System
Base	I-Operating_System
,	O
Microsoft	B-Application
Access	I-Application
,	O
FoxPro	B-Application
,	O
Oracle	B-Application
Forms	I-Application
or	O
FileMaker	B-Application
while	O
at	O
the	O
same	O
time	O
being	O
powerful	O
,	O
inexpensive	O
,	O
open-standards-driven	O
and	O
sufficiently	O
portable	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Kexi	B-Language
works	O
natively	O
under	O
Linux/Unix	O
(	O
FreeBSD	B-Operating_System
,	O
OpenBSD	B-Operating_System
,	O
NetBSD	B-Device
,	O
Solaris	B-Application
)	O
and	O
Microsoft	B-Application
Windows	I-Application
operating	I-Application
systems	I-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
Older	O
versions	O
were	O
available	O
for	O
Mac	B-Operating_System
OS	I-Operating_System
X	I-Operating_System
(	O
using	O
Homebrew	B-Application
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
macOS	B-Application
version	O
was	O
not	O
released	O
but	O
can	O
be	O
compiled	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Kexi	B-Language
application	O
and	O
its	O
frameworks	O
are	O
available	O
under	O
the	O
LGPL	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
User	O
and	O
developer	O
documentation	O
is	O
available	O
under	O
the	O
GFDL	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
Kexi	B-Language
development	O
started	O
in	O
2002	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Although	O
Kexi	B-Language
was	O
a	O
KOffice	B-Language
project	O
since	O
the	O
beginning	O
,	O
the	O
first	O
release	O
was	O
independent	O
of	O
KOffice	B-Language
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
first	O
public	O
beta	O
release	O
of	O
Kexi	B-Language
was	O
version	O
0.1	O
beta	O
2	O
on	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
A	O
Kexi	B-Language
version	O
with	O
a	O
lower	O
version	O
number	O
–	O
0.8	O
–	O
was	O
shipped	O
afterward	O
with	O
KOffice	B-Language
1.4	O
on	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Further	O
stable	O
versions	O
of	O
Kexi	B-Language
were	O
released	O
with	O
KOffice	B-Language
1.5	O
and	O
1.6	O
in	O
2006	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
From	O
2004	O
until	O
2007	O
OpenOffice	O
Polska	O
made	O
commercial	O
Kexi	B-Language
releases	O
using	O
release	O
years	O
as	O
version	O
numbers	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
first	O
release	O
was	O
Kexi	B-Language
2004	O
LT	O
on	O
based	O
on	O
Kexi	B-Language
0.1	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
commercial	O
releases	O
concluded	O
with	O
Kexi	B-Language
2007.1	O
in	O
March	O
2007	O
based	O
on	O
Kexi	B-Language
1.1.2/1.1.3	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
porting	O
process	O
to	O
KDE	B-Language
Platform	I-Language
4	I-Language
took	O
rather	O
long	O
and	O
was	O
finished	O
with	O
the	O
release	O
of	O
KOffice	B-Language
2.2	O
in	O
May	O
2010	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Among	O
its	O
new	O
features	O
was	O
a	O
new	O
Report	O
Designer	O
plug-in	O
to	O
replace	O
the	O
KOffice	B-Language
1.6	O
stand-alone	O
reporting	O
application	O
Kugar	B-Language
.	O
</s>
<s>
Kexi	B-Language
2.3	O
was	O
released	O
with	O
KOffice	B-Language
2.3	O
on	O
with	O
–	O
among	O
other	O
features	O
–	O
a	O
reworked	O
Project	O
Navigator	O
pane	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
After	O
the	O
KOffice	B-Language
2.3	O
release	O
,	O
Kexi	B-Language
moved	O
into	O
Calligra	B-Application
Suite	I-Application
and	O
both	O
were	O
released	O
as	O
version	O
2.4	O
on	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Since	O
version	O
3.1	O
Kexi	B-Language
again	O
officially	O
supports	O
Microsoft	B-Application
Windows	I-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
Kexi	B-Language
users	O
can	O
choose	O
from	O
various	O
database	O
engines	O
that	O
can	O
be	O
utilized	O
for	O
data	O
and	O
design	O
storage	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
By	O
default	O
built-in	O
SQLite	B-Language
3	I-Language
database	O
engine	O
is	O
used	O
that	O
eliminates	O
a	O
need	O
for	O
installation	O
and	O
maintenance	O
of	O
a	O
database	O
server	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
For	O
more	O
advanced	O
use	O
Kexi	B-Language
can	O
use	O
database	O
servers	O
such	O
as	O
MySQL/MariaDB	O
,	O
PostgreSQL	B-Application
and	O
Microsoft	O
SQL	O
Server/Sybase	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
Kexi	B-Language
,	O
such	O
data	O
and	O
definition	O
of	O
objects	O
is	O
known	O
as	O
project	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Kexi	B-Language
Table	O
designer	O
allows	O
users	O
to	O
design	O
tables	O
,	O
which	O
can	O
then	O
be	O
created	O
and	O
opened	O
for	O
data	O
entry	O
,	O
sorting	O
and	O
searching	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
scope	O
of	O
the	O
SQL	O
supported	O
is	O
limited	O
compared	O
to	O
raw	O
database	O
engines	O
(	O
MySQL	B-Application
and	O
even	O
SQLite	B-Language
)	O
but	O
the	O
SQL	O
dialect	O
supported	O
by	O
Kexi	B-Language
is	O
(	O
by	O
design	O
)	O
common	O
to	O
all	O
supported	O
database	O
engines	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Kexi	B-Language
2.2	O
–	O
the	O
first	O
release	O
of	O
the	O
second	O
generation	O
–	O
introduced	O
full-featured	O
report	O
designer	O
,	O
generator	O
and	O
previewer	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
application	O
can	O
also	O
import	O
data	O
(	O
tables	O
)	O
from	O
external	O
data	O
sources	O
(	O
MySQL	B-Application
,	O
PostgreSQL	B-Application
,	O
Microsoft	B-Application
Access	I-Application
files	O
,	O
dBASE	B-Application
files	O
)	O
and	O
export	O
data	O
to	O
MySQL	B-Application
or	O
PostgreSQL	B-Application
servers	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
same	O
CSV	O
format	O
can	O
be	O
used	O
for	O
copying	O
and	O
pasting	O
clipboard	O
data	O
so	O
the	O
data	O
can	O
be	O
easily	O
transferred	O
to/from	O
applications	O
like	O
spreadsheets	B-Application
or	O
word	O
processors	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
a	O
special	O
User	O
Mode	O
Kexi	B-Language
allows	O
users	O
to	O
switch	O
off	O
all	O
commands	O
related	O
to	O
editing	O
project	O
's	O
design	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Kexi	B-Language
offered	O
experimental	O
scripting	O
support	O
using	O
Python	B-Language
and	O
Ruby	B-Language
in	O
version	O
2	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Scripting	O
since	O
version	O
3	O
is	O
planned	O
to	O
be	O
based	O
on	O
JavaScript	B-Language
.	O
</s>
<s>
Handling	O
Oracle	B-General_Concept
databases	I-General_Concept
was	O
available	O
in	O
versions	O
1.x	O
but	O
is	O
disabled	O
in	O
versions	O
2.x	O
.	O
</s>
