title: Database Compatibility: Building a database to support apps across multiple OSs
body: <p>I know very little about developing apps/software, so please forgive my ignorance in advance.</p>
  
  <p>I would like to develop a proprietary digital dictionary (using my own definitions, not taken them from other websites). To do this I will need to build a database, that will contain multiple definition for each words and many examples of their use.</p>
  
  <p>Eventually, I would like to use this database to build apps for Android, iOS, and Microsoft operating systems. My question is, for example, if i use SQL Server 2012 will I be able to use this same database when I try to make an app for Android? If not are their any neutral open source database systems like XAMPP which would work across all three operating systems?</p>
  
  <p><em>Extra Information</em>: I would like the apps to pull definition from a database embedded inside the app, not from an internet server; this way, users will be able to use the dictionary without an internet connection.  </p>