How effective are free and open source data bases? For answers, we reviewed 6:: Microsoft SQL Server Express, PostgreSQL, Oracle's MySQL, MariaDB, Apache Derby and Firebird SQL. Free or open source ...

Not much more to add to the title . Needs to be able to run over ssh or some secure equivalent. Or do you mean not 'administration' per se, but design & querying? In that case, in no particular order: ...