Abstract: An Internet-based database management system has a web server with a central database that can be modified in both a real-time mode and a non-real time mode. Regarding the real-time mode, the web server includes a web site that provides access to the central database, and a user of the system can use a web browser on their computer, which is remote from the web server, to access the central database via the Internet and the web site. Regarding the nonreal-time mode, the remote computer includes a remote database that can be modified in real-time while the remote computer is not connected to the Internet, and thereafter information is passed between the central database and the remote database via the Internet. The information passed between the central database and the remote database is streamed in both directions.