I think they are the same. I use the bureaucracy plugin from the dokuwiki website. It has , as far as i can see, the features as mentioned.
I use it with the data and strata plugin, for indexing the sqlite plugin is used.
At first it looks very intimidating but when you use it it is very easy to set up forms, save these and/ or email these.
Later you can retrieve them as tables or individual pages.
There are some realy nice features in the bureaucracy plugin like opening more fields if a certain field is selected.
You should try something not to complicated, and then work things out. You will be supriseed how easy it is to use.
A mailform is created in just 5 minutes. A "database table" costs you less than an hour. I use a larger table with much data and present it in different views.
I started with this one :
https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1c9-NPdyzDX2con7jvrgo_5wLJmIjCWi53FFcAdi4tKw
There are several examples you can start with.