Help looking for a database

For years I have relied upon Appleworks for my simple database issues but have not hit a snag. The nature of the data I am now storing requires large numbers of characters to be stored in a single field. Appleworks has a character limit of approx 500. This is next to useless for me.
Does anyone know either a way around this, the text is either sections of an interview or comments (which can be in excess of 100 words), or of a simple, intuitive alternative that also has the easy switch between the card and list view.
Any help and all suggestions are very welcome.
mac mini 1.42 & imac g5 20" Mac OS X (10.4.7)

Hello
Before studying an other tool, it may be time to learn that since its first delivery in year 2000, the text field's limit is not 500 characters (as written in the specs) but 1000 characters.
If this is not sufficient, it is time to look at an other application:
FileMaker 8.5
4th Dimension
openOffice 2.x
neoOffice 2.x
I know that the late two are FREE but I don't know if there is a way to store pictures with them.
Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE mercredi 12 juillet 2006 16:44:11)

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