Hi there,
I`m a civil/IT engineer, and have a lot of experience working with DB, in projects of all scales, and all kind of implementations.
First we need to define the use and the access you need for this database, depending on that we can use:
-MS Access
-JAva
-SQL
-MS Office/Google docs
As I told you it will deppend on the ammount of information, amount of variables, porocessing you need to do with the information and finally the method of access yo will use.
Hope we can work together