I like notion a lot, especially for its databases function, it's much more powerful than stuff like excel, but being proprietary I'm scared of the buyers lock in / notion disallowing exports in the future and all the cons that come from using a proprietary software. Also managing integrations is probably harder than with an app that you own I think..

Is database in notion just a normal database like mysql? How easy/intuitive would be making the switch? Is it worth it?

We would use it for a very small organization, mostly for registering invoices, documents, lists of contacts with several informations.

I need to query results and to sort / filter database as I want, there's also the idea of trying integrating it with a website in the future maybe..

I like how practical notion is, but I don't like that it's proprietary and notion could potentially modify its terms of use whenever it wants.

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[–] PandaInSpace@kbin.earth 4 points 1 day ago

There isn't a 1:1 FOSS replacement for Notion. I've been also looking for one and haven't found any.

As others have said, Appflowy and Affine are the best options that don't require self hosting. Appflowy now has a web version too. There's also SiYuan.

If you're fine with self hosting there might be a few options mainly for database like functions, some provide a free trial/tier :