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The original was posted on /r/selfhosted by /u/Special_Designer_757 on 2023-07-04 11:30:12+00:00.

This isn’t an ad, obviously. The things is, I have NetBox to manage my assets, and it’s based upon Postgres. But NetBox itself is quite arcane, and we just need it to hoard and manage our asset data with it, then use these data on an online spreadsheet.

I did many a trial and error and eventually chose NocoDB: clean looking, easy to use, and wraps around Postgres.

The hitch, however, is that NocoDB literally just injects into NetBox, because for the time being NocoDB doesn’t support linking to another data source. (Slight rant here: NocoDB’s development progress is frustratingly slow…)

This instantly became a pain in the ass. I want something like NocoDB but actually ‘wraps’ around a database, instead of ‘injecting’ into it. Every table I create on NocoDB goes directly into NetBox’s database. I can’t imagine what a mess it’ll be in the foreseeable future.

Stuff like Baserow, Grist, Open Office, etc. are all very neat. But, still, they don’t WRAP around NetBox, they kinda works on their own.

So really, is there a better alternative to NocoDB? One that invokes data from another database, rather than directly meddle with it. Think of a multi-sheet Excel workbook, which is capable of referencing and looking up, but is online and collaborative (or with role-based access control).