DBeaver – open-source database client

by saikatsg • 2 years ago

451 155 2 years ago

It's a decent free and cross platform UI. Doesn't have all the DB specific features of a tool like PG admin or MySQL Workbench. Still, I like having the same tool for all my basic needs, and only use a more specialized one where I really need it.

thunderbong• 2 years ago

Can you elaborate on what DB specific features are missing?

paulryanrogers3• 2 years ago

Pgadmin has some in depth stats about the server and can export COPY statements, among other things. MySQL Workbench has some nice planner visualisations.

teaearlgraycold• 2 years ago

Dbeaver is generally great. Sometimes I have weird issues where it just can’t load data after losing connection with Postgres. It’ll act like it’s reconnecting but will invariably fail. I need to manually disconnect and reconnect to get it to work.

But otherwise it does everything I need. I install it on all of my computers.

vbezhenar• 2 years ago

Also they made a browser database client (cloudbeaver) which is much better than pgdamin IMO. I set it for my company, so people can easily access database without creating tunnels, sharing passwords, etc. I tried pgadmin before, but it was incredibly buggy, almost unusable as a shared installation (often server would just hang until restart).

For desktop I, personally, prefer Idea Database plugin, because it's just SQL editor, but incredibly powerful one.

joshstrange• 2 years ago

For desktop I, personally, prefer Idea Database plugin, because it's just SQL editor, but incredibly powerful one.

I also quite like DataGrip (essentially a standalone of the IDEA database plugin, or maybe the plugin is a plugin version of the standalone, not sure which came first).

htrp• 2 years ago

It's your general swiss army knife for DB tools

anonu• 2 years ago

I use this successfully with different versions of postgres, SQL server, MySQL, redshift and others. Does the job.

neals• 2 years ago

I use HeidiSQL for my SQL databases

nurettin• 2 years ago

This is a windows program written in delphi. A fitting choice, because Delphi provides both the necessary data grid component and the syntax highlighting editor, as well as connectors to several sql databases.

A cross platform version could be written in Lazarus, with the idea that it uses less system resources than a large java program.

bojan• 2 years ago

I was forced to switch to DBeaver as HeidiSQL isn't allowed at my current employer. I miss how light Heidi is, but I'm not sure I'd switch back now I'm used to all the features DBeaver has.

Aeolun2• 2 years ago

I use a mac and linux now. I think HeidiSQL is the thing I miss most from Windows.

mappu• 2 years ago

Someone started a cross-platform rewrite at https://github.com/ragnar-lodbrok/meow-sql which has made incredible progress.

deergomoo3• 2 years ago

Have they fixed the awful stability issues and the fact that a query that takes longer than ~5s will lock up the entire application until it completes?

frozenice• 2 years ago

I also use HeidiSQL almost daily. Besides MySQL / MariaDB it also can connect to MSSQL and Postgres.

I recently had to import a CSV with some million rows into MariaDB. Neither HeidiSQL nor DBeaver could do it (tried various settings). IntelliJ worked like a charm.

cowmix3• 2 years ago

DBeaver is amazing. As someone who needs to do adhoc querying / extracting / loading of data from any hosts of system on a daily basis - this tool has saved me over and over again.

My beef is there doesn't seem to be a way to contribute $$$ to the OS version -- except for buying/subscribing to the commercial version. Maybe I've missed some web page that explains how to do contribute -- so if anyone knows if there's a way to do that --- post it here.

evanelias2• 2 years ago

Out of curiosity, why not buy/subscribe to the commercial version then, if this is the clear path for how to support the primary developers of the software?

cowmix3• 2 years ago

I don't like the subscription options they offer. I just want to throw them $50 a year for the CE version -- which I would think is better than $0 a year I'm giving them now.

worble2• 2 years ago

I swear I donated to them via paypal once long ago, but I think they've since removed all those donation links in favor of the EE.

Presumably any profits they make from merch goes into their pockets, so you could buy something from there that's in the price range you want to donate I suppose https://www.redbubble.com/people/DBeaverCorp/shop

cowmix3• 2 years ago

t-shirt ordered.. thx!

shortrounddev2• 2 years ago

I use dbeaver extensively at work. I like that you can graphically edit rows and it will start those changes as a transaction, so you can hit ctrl+s to commit the changes

zmmmmm5• 2 years ago

I like that you can graphically edit rows and it will start those changes as a transaction, so you can hit ctrl+s to commit the changes

One of my favorite features too. I don't doubt this has saved me from some bad mistakes since you can use a methodology of "select rows to change" and manually set their value, then review, then Save, rather than issuing an update that tries to change them with SQL. For small scale ad hoc maintenance it's great.

cbb330• 2 years ago

I like dbeaver for browsing DDL, list of tables, examples of schema, data types. also, to edit a few rows here and there as a quick test/fix to something. because its easier to click around than write many 2 line sql to do the same thing.

But, I often use jupyter notebooks for the DML aspect of hard queries and data anlysis, for the power of dataframes and repeatable cells mixed with documentation and sharing.

So all that to say, anyone know if there is a DDL browser equivalent ideal for jupyter notebooks / ipywidgets?

singingfish• 2 years ago

same, except I use emaacs org mode instead of jupyter (and have record keeping / backup implemented with git-auto-commit-mode as well)

xnx• 2 years ago

Great tool. Would be nice of it associating it with .parquet files on Windows allowed DBeaver to connect to them with a double-click.

Nihilartikel• 2 years ago

I use the duckdb connector as an intermediary for parquet in Dbeaver - it works quite well.

I just create views like:

Create or replace view parqtable as select * from /pathtoparquet/*.parquet;

dfee• 2 years ago

I don’t know why it matters to me, but I’ve always been put off by it being ugly and using non-native widgets. That may be the only reason I’ve paid for TablePlus.

I’d probably be fine with a great TUI interface, too. So it’s really this intermediate UI that irritates me.

ramon156• 2 years ago

Not good at supporting GTK either, its the sole reason I do not use it on gnome

trillic• 2 years ago

What do you use?

dorfsmay• 2 years ago

What?

I use it on gnome all the time and never run into an issue.

staticlibs4• 2 years ago

DBeaver uses SWT toolkit, its widgets are as platform-native as Java can do. Some of them can be much faster with long text editing than default Java Swing widgets.

ptx• 2 years ago

Yup, SWT is a wrapper for actual native widgets, similar to wxWidgets. Some widgets are custom though, like the horrendously ugly tab widgets, which might be what the other commenter is reacting to. And the spacing and alignment usually doesn't look great in most SWT-based apps I've seen, for some reason.

pachico2• 2 years ago

Ugliness is something I found to be quite common in Java based apps. I never understood why, though.

yelsom• 2 years ago

+1, except for Jetbrains IDEs that have polished UI

staticlibs4• 2 years ago

None of major Java/OpenJDK contributors (Oracle, Red Hat, SAP etc) care about desktop GUI Java libs. Jet Brains do care, but they are not major. All Java progress is concentrated on backend cloud services for 10-15 years already. This can explain why Swing is so underdeveloped and JavaFX was thrown away. Basically much more effort is required to make Java GUI look and behave nicely, comparing to Delphi/Lazarus or .NET GUI libs or Qt.

RachelF2• 2 years ago

Dbeaver has quite a few Java annoyances. Windows don't resize properly, the tree list often requires multiple clicks and most annoying of all is running out of heap space on Java, especially if one tries to run more than one task at a time.

FpUser2• 2 years ago

It is free tool with gobbles of functionality. I use it occasionally and it works great. Whatever set of widgets it uses does not concern me at all. It does what I need and is convenient enough. Maybe it would matter more if I was spending all my work time with it but in reality I use it very occasionally.

So thank to the developers.

I also use another DB admin tool: HeidiSQL. This one is lightning fast. Most likely because it is native application. Written in Delphi btw

Same thanks to the developer

deergomoo3• 2 years ago

The default DB tool where I work is Heidi and I switched to DBeaver because I found Heidi to be horrendously unstable. Dozens of random exceptions on a daily basis, and because it’s single-threaded a long-running query will just lock up the entire UI to the point where it triggers the “this program is not responding” dialog on Windows.

A free and open source DB management tool is still an impressive feat, but I absolutely would not trust it with anything where blowing up would have consequences.

worble2• 2 years ago

I find it absolutely baffling how often the prettiness of UI comes up as a HN comment.

If you asked me objectively "do you think it's pretty?" I'd probably say no, but never once has this even occurred me when using it since I'm usually just trying to get work done, which I find it very useful for. It's a productivity tool, not an art piece I'm hanging on my wall.

talhah• 2 years ago

While your point is understandable there are various types of people. An important aspect about user experience is aesthetic and ease of use. Some people care purely about functionality and others have mixed opinions on this. It's not fair to call it petty when you guys are just two different customers and users with different needs.

People sometimes forget the importance of user experience and it's why some amazing software barely gets used.

Personally I care about aesthetic and consistency but willing to sacrifice depending on what I'm doing.

selfawareMammal• 2 years ago

Imo it's not just about being functional so I can get work done. It's also about enjoying what I'm doing and having aesthetic tools is important to me. It's still functionality the most important? Yes. Do I prefer non-ugly tools to ugly tools even if I had to trade a bit of functionality for a lot of prettiness? Yes, every single time (as long as I can still get done what I need to get done, ofc)

Aeolun2• 2 years ago

At the same time, I find it more pleasant to use other software. DBeaver does everything I need, but it’s hardly ergonomic.

al_borland• 2 years ago

Some applications are designed so well, it makes me look for excuses to use them. Other times the good UI makes it faster and easier to get the job done. An ugly UI makes me less likely to want to use an application, and a bad/confusing one makes it harder for me to get the job done, especially if it’s used infrequently.

UI and UX does matter, even when talking about productivity software.

There can also be an element of inspiration and influence. If all my tools are well designed, I’m more likely to set a high bar for whatever I’m building. If I’m using ugly and poorly designed tool. The bar for whatever I’m making will likely drop to the environment I’m around.

JohnBooty• 2 years ago

I think it's less about aesthetics and more about cognitive load.

Nonstandard UIs aren't end of the world, but if possible I don't want the extra cognitive load of interacting with 5, 6, 7, whatever slightly different GUI paradigms.

Like most developers I'm using multiple applications at once. Typically I'm using a terminal, text editor, browser, Slack, email, and maybe a database GUI.

A developer's cognition and cognitive load are limiting factors. Increase my cognitive load by X% and there is going to be a Y% increase in how long it takes me to do something and/or a Z% decrease in the quality of the work. Even if X% is small, it adds up pretty quickly. After all if we are employed full time that is 2,000+ hours per year of work.

Again, not just aesthetics. It's little things like, "does this software support the standard keyboard shortcuts for my system?" If CMD+W closes a window in every app except one that's kind of a pain. Etc.

dataflow• 2 years ago

I'd argue it's not really about prettiness but about fitting in, so that the UI isn't jarring or distracting. I think the situation would actually be similar if the rest of the system was ugly and one particular app's UI was pretty, rather than the other way around.

roenxi• 2 years ago

Underscoring the "HN comment" part. This is a userbase who are presently interfacing with a wall of text, some tasteful greytext and a coloured bar. This appears to be a crowd with low visual needs.

themerone• 2 years ago

I have a PowerGrep license. It's UI is so cluttered that I almost always find ways to make due with less capable alternatives.

datavirtue2• 2 years ago

It's not about pretty so much as simple things like whitespace or other details. I would never release a UI that acted weird in any way. For instance, DB Browser doesn't scale when undocking. I have to close the app and open it up and then load the database again.

Another example is Total Commander. I would buy it if it worked they way I think and had proper whitespace instead of being infinitely configurable and using non-conventional UX defaults (hit R I should jump to the first file staring with R, FFS).

If I have to suffer through this shit then so be it. If I don't have to suffer through it...delete.

npteljes• 2 years ago

Just to add insight: to me, inspiration is important, and beauty inspires me. When I coded a lot back in the day, I changed the coding font from time to time, for example.

A fun representation of the need for such beauty is in the game of Rimworld. In this world, the characters you manage react to the beauty of their surroundings, they need it to be beautiful to a degree, similar to how they need comfort, and recreation. Mood is central to the game, and an easy way to improve it generally is to create a beautiful environment, even if the characters are going to do mundane work like butchering.

elAhmo• 2 years ago

I am in the same position. I used Postico in the past, but unfortunately it doesn't offer support for non-Postgres databases. TablePlus has really good native UI and I wish more apps went that route as you can definitely feel a difference between a native app and something like DBeaver.

folmar• 2 years ago

I've tested it since you recommend it but it seems it can't do Postgres local connection (via socket-file = the default). Not great UX on linux.

CalRobert• 2 years ago

Huh, the utilitarian UI is part of why I like it

smackeyacky• 2 years ago

This complaint has been levelled against Java (and small talk earlier than that) since forever and it made no sense back in the 1990s either. Nobody complains about the Wild West of interfaces on web apps.

On a mobile I kind of get it because having apps work in similar ways eases the learning curve (I.e burger menus etc), but all the UI paradigms being used in dbeaver are the same as any other desktop app.

I appreciate the fact that it works identically on Linux as it does Windows (and presumably MacOS). Not even Microsoft maintain consistent use of widgets within their operating system, you still stumble across windows 3.0 looking screens in windows 11.

I say…it’s good that dbeaver eschews native widgets

nxpnsv• 2 years ago

I tried tableplus, liked it, it just feels right. I reported a minor error in docs, got a friendly message and a year of license. 10/10

tylerhillery• 2 years ago

https://harlequin.sh/ is a nice SQL IDE for you terminal (TUI)

overtomanu3• 2 years ago

HN post: Harlequin: SQL IDE for Your Terminal (github.com/tconbeer) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38882526

staticlibs4• 2 years ago

DBeaver works surprisingly nicely with less popular DBs. I work with Babelfish for PostgreSQL [1], it supports connections with SQL Server client libs. Most GUI client tools (like SSMS) expect "real" SQL Server on the other end of the wire - depend on various system views for DB introspection, so only partially work with Babelfish. Even if client tool is based on JDBC (like SQuirell SQL), it doesn't guarantee that this tool won't use additional SQL Server-specific queries for introspection. DBeaver is much better at this, I guess it is using JDBC API or DB-neutral INFORMATION_SCHEMA views for introspection.

[1] https://babelfishpg.org/

silentsea90• 2 years ago

They do use JDBC and even allow you to customize your choice of driver version for a db. It is a bit clunky when one has to resolve missing dependencies but that's just how it works I guess.

RachelF2• 2 years ago

The free version supports a few, but you need to pay $500 a year if you to talk to more databases or want security or cloud features:

https://dbeaver.com/edition/

It's a great tool, though, a bit buggy but most useful.

tasuki• 2 years ago

In what way is the free version lacking security?

supriyo-biswas• 2 years ago

I personally like the ER diagram viewer in DBeaver. On a project with very little documentation, it was extremely pleasing to point it to the staging database and be able to visualize the relationships between various entities.

NewJazz• 2 years ago

SchemaSpy can generate static docs based on a live db, and they include pretty good ER diagrams (IMO).

They have a sample on their website (go to the relationships section):

https://schemaspy.org/samples/epivirusurf/

The convenience factor is that you don't need a continuous connection to the db to refer to the diagrams or other docs.

osigurdson• 2 years ago

Functionally it is very good, I like it very much. it does show that not all dark modes are created equal however. I think it takes an especially good designer to do dark mode well.

A good example of a well done dark mode (in my opinion of course) is Grafana.

0x073• 2 years ago

Since I used navicat, almost every other db tools feels incomplete.

i_am_a_squirrel• 2 years ago

I've been using it for 5+ years! So much functionality for a free tool

sdwvit• 2 years ago

DBeaver is great and has been in my arsenal of dev tools for at least 5 years.

tiku• 2 years ago

I'm looking for a tool like this that converts the schema to Laravel model files. Why? Because I'm lazy.

zmmmmm5• 2 years ago

I know probably 95% of HN will see it as a downside but one of my favorite things about DBeaver is that because it is implemented on Eclipse you can install nearly any Eclipse plugin and they work. So I installed Vrapper to edit in Vi-mode, some git tools I like, PlantUML, etc. Really makes it a step above other tools in terms of the power and flexibility you can have with it.

Apart from that, you can install it inside regular Eclipse as a plugin, so then you can have your database window and your ER diagram next to your code. Again, something that really sets it apart from dedicated tools.

wanderingmind• 2 years ago

Would love to learn how you installed these plugins and tested them. Have you written about this somewhere or can you point to some resources that can help people like me, who use dbeaver but can't customize them well.

zmmmmm5• 2 years ago

It's straighforward - it doesn't have the Eclipse Marketplace installed so you have to use direct installation, which just means you have to find the plugin site yourself, which is usually on the web site or github page for the plugin.

So you go to Help => Install New Software and then put eg: the Vrapper update site in:

    http://vrapper.sourceforge.net/update-site/stable

And just go from there.

anotherevan• 2 years ago

I've used Vrapper with Eclipse for years, and I've used Dbeaver for years - yet it has never entered my mind before that I could use Vrapper with Dbeaver! Thanks!

fuzztester10• 2 years ago

Why start your comment by saying "I know probably 95% of HN will see it as a downside but"?

And this is irrespective of whether that 95% is right or not.

Google "father son and donkey story".

And re: that 95%:

See normal distribution aka bell curve.

And echo chamber and hive mind.

All of the above imply the same main point, just in different ways.

hun34• 2 years ago

Sort of like defence against possible downvoters.

If OP went along the "father, son, and donkey story," then the OP won't have posted it at all.

zmmmmm5• 2 years ago

Unfortunately I pretty much have only ever seen negative comments about Eclipse on HN. It seems immensely unpopular and often the minute you mention it you'll get a bunch of often derisive replies. At this point I've had to come to terms with the fact that I'm the odd one out and own it, and that is how I do it. No disrepect meant, more acknowledgement of my own exceptionalism.

hoistbypetard• 2 years ago

one of my favorite things about DBeaver is that because it is implemented on Eclipse you can install nearly any Eclipse plugin and they work

I like DataGrip for a very similar reason, relative to IDEA plugins.

elric4• 2 years ago

I love the Eclipse IDE. It's a shame the Eclipse Foundation doesn't treat it better.

Last time I tried to contribute to it, I ended up giving up. They wanted me to sign paperwork simply to report a bug. There was no documentation about how to build the IDE, which is scattered across dozens of repositories. Maybe that has improved, but I doubt it.

They seem to be putting all their eggs into the Theia basket, which is an IDE framework similar to VSCode. Would have been nice to see that energy go towards improving Eclipse instead of reinventing the wheel.

Improving the UI's handling of HiDPI would be nice. One can but dream.

giamma2• 2 years ago

Hi, I am an Eclipse Foundation committer, but I am not committing to the IDE itself.

You don't have to sign the CLA (contributor license agreement) if you want to report a bug, but you have if you want to contribute code, even a small patch for a bug you found. That's a legal requirement to protect the Foundation from contributions that may copy/paste proprietary code and to ensure that you will not in the future change your mind and make claims for your contributions. It's not peculiar to Eclipse Foundation, many open source vendors require contributors to sign a CLA [1]

My understanding is that Theia is currently more of a platform than a complete IDE. It is meant to be usable for building cloud-based IDEs, and you can test a distribution on your workstation, but being it a client/server architecture, you currently have to run a docker container locally to test Theia (or at least this was the case in Q3 2023). They are now focusing on the user interface and plug-in architecture of Theia (which is already capable of running VSCode extension). IMHO, for Theia to become really meaningful the server-side part needs to be improved: currently Theia reuses Eclipse JDT and other plug-ins on the back-end, which is fine for a desktop app, but less convenient for a client/server IDE as you will need a separate server-side container running the Eclipse plug-ins for every active user running the Web-based Theia GUI.

With respect to Eclipse itself, it has dramatically improved over the last few years, since the Foundation started making a release every 3 months. You may like the UI or not, but on my workstation it's now much faster and lighter than it used to be, and it's also faster and lighter than IntelliJ. To me the main issue with Eclipse is that it relies on P2 for plug-in distribution, which makes installing Eclipse add-ons a painful process.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contributor_License_Agreement

HelloNurse2• 2 years ago

Eclipse started as a "reinvention" of IBM VisualAge for Java and went through at least one major rewrite (transitioning to OSGi). I guess it's the standard pattern for mature code bases.

fuzztester10• 2 years ago

Potentially good info to know for someone using Eclipse.

deergomoo3• 2 years ago

I’m sure some other clients do this too, but one of my favourite DBeaver features is that it will display geospatial column values in an embedded OpenStreetMap pane.

mvexel• 2 years ago

This is what keeps me coming back to DBeaver as well. I don't know of any other clients that support display of PostGIS geometry types.

frankbreetz• 2 years ago

Does DBeaver have a feature similar to PGAdmin's schema diff(https://www.pgadmin.org/docs/pgadmin4/development/schema_dif...)?

I use this feature quite a bit, if DBeaver has a similar feature. I might try to make the jump.

paulryanrogers3• 2 years ago

Yes but not in the community version:

https://github.com/dbeaver/dbeaver/wiki/Schema-compare

sgarland• 2 years ago

It’s fine, but I maintain that spending a day or three learning SQL will pay dividends far beyond your initial time investment.

That’s not to say you can’t write SQL with a GUI, of course, but judging by the replies it seems like they’re more often used to look at or change tuples via clicking.

Glyptodon• 2 years ago

I'm not sure what all is out there these days, but have long found DBeaver a more convenient tool for day to day stuff than pgAdmin though it's certainly not beautiful. What's making it get voted up today?

Nydhal• 2 years ago

It's September.

wood-porch• 2 years ago

Eh honestly I found it super cumbersome to use after coming from Sequel Pro (mysql), never really found a better alternative for Postgres though. Perhaps I would use Navicat

sumedh• 2 years ago

Perhaps I would use Navicat

Navicat has Data Synchronization feature which you can use to compare and sync data across two databases. I dont think any other DB tool has that feature which also works on a Mac

interbased• 2 years ago

I mainly use Postico but I’ve noticed coworkers using DBeaver. I like how the tabs are named whereas in Postico I have to leave comments at the top of the query for later. I had to use DBeaver to access a non-Postgres database. I may end up trying it out as my primary tool for a bit.

20kleagues• 2 years ago

I absolutely love Postico. For postgres, there really is no comparison for a Mac native db client. DBeaver seems so clunky in comparison, but I use that for everything non postgres.

s_trumpet• 2 years ago

DBeaver is somewhat clunky, yes, but for me that's a minor downside since it acts as a Swiss army knife, regardless of what DB I'm trying to access. That saves cognitive load from having to learn multiple tools. Pretty much anything with a JDBC driver is fair game. It being cross platform is a big boon as well since I use all 3 major OS fairly regularly - Mac at work, Windows and Linux at home.

irjustin2• 2 years ago

DBeaver is great, but it's so heavy/clunky on OSX. Also, 99% of the time I want 1. tables+data 2. data structure+index of table 3. search 4. sql query

DBeaver aims to be a full admin system and simply getting to the data makes me drill 3-4 levels deep in a tree and it's quite annoying that only adds to the "clunky-ness".

mixmastamyk• 2 years ago

There’s an option, simple view on connection or something, that eliminates much of the hierarchy.

irjustin2• 2 years ago

OH WOW. This makes it significantly more usable. Thanks for it!

I'm going to give it another serious go. I like TablePlus but I prefer open source options.

I've been using PostBird which fails pretty hard at any "large" data inside a single cell. The columns just bleed everywhere. I'm sad it's not true OSS because I know the community really wanted to take it much further but the original maintainer didn't want to. Their right, I get it, still sad.

rs_rs_rs_rs_rs• 2 years ago

Yeah, to me TablePlus feels much better to use than anything else honestly, even if it's not open source.

wildrhythms• 2 years ago

On Mac OS I use Sequel Ace for MariaDB/MySQL, it's a spiritual successor to Sequel Pro. Native UI. Works great. https://sequel-ace.com/

aldousd666• 2 years ago

This tool is my daily driver for all database stuff I touch. My only complaint is that the update dialog is quite a noisy nag. But that's not a real problem.

pritambarhate• 2 years ago

I use it regularly for accessing PostgreSQL, MySQL and SQLight. Very happy so far. It’s regularly updated also.

konzhi• 2 years ago

I only wish that I don't have to re-install my plugins each time dbeaver gets update

gorm• 2 years ago

It's a great client and used it for years. But I have some issues. Sometimes the cursor disappear and ctrl-enter stops working. Anyone experienced something similar and know what it could be? I run on a rather minimalistic UI environment and might lack some desktop festures.

mulmen• 2 years ago

Yep, same. A recent update introduced a bug where the entire editor window contents disappear on a diagonal. No idea why. Sometimes adding a newline foxes it, sometimes it doesn’t.

thih9• 2 years ago

As much as I want to like it, having used both this and free version of postico for a couple of months I overwhelmingly prefer the latter.

pragnesh• 2 years ago

https://dbgate.org/ is also great db client

puika• 2 years ago

I love dbeaver, but there's a thing that bugs me every single time. I constantly recreate databases during development, so I have to disconnect databases, then connect, then go dig inside the database tree to where I was before recreating. Am I missing some feature I don't know about?

HelloNurse2• 2 years ago

Maybe improve your organization of database connections into folders to dig more easily?

Gnarl• 2 years ago

Worst UI experience. Prefer SQuirreL. Personal opinion.

samuelec• 2 years ago

I have been using it for 3 years with Postgresql and it still buggy. When the db is throwing out an error dbeaver just say that there was an error on line xx followed by java exception stactrace forcing me to login into the db via command line and figure out what is wrong myself. If you want to write and debug a stored procedure then good luck! The ui had many issues and only recently seems to be just usable. At least with Postgresql, I can't really recommend for anything too complex.

ajsnigrutin• 2 years ago

For me it's buggy when it has to reconnect to something... eg. i work on something, close the laptop (suspend to mem), and the next day open it up, wait for an hour or two doing other stuff (so there's enough time to notice that the tcp session is down), and dbeaver shows a progress bar and gets stuck there, until i restart it, and click a zillion times to get to the proper psql table.

Also, the annoying 'new version,...' popups are annoying.

Otherwise, a great gui.

dicknuckle• 2 years ago

Agreed, I've had mostly the same experience. There was about a month where I wasn't able to run a particular query on Oracle SQL but that's fixed now.

johnchristopher• 2 years ago

Also, the annoying 'new version,...' popups are annoying.

And the weird wording when you finish restoring a database with the button "next" highlighted, asking for one more ride.

saikatsg• 2 years ago

There is a fix regarding connectivity as per the latest release notes: https://dbeaver.io/2024/03/03/dbeaver-24-0-0/

Connectivity: closing timeout for an idle connection was increased and disabled for embedded

dikaio• 2 years ago

Which the team that created kaleidoscope would create a database app.

dveeden2• 2 years ago

The viewer for geospatial data is much better than most other GUI clients (and CLI clients are often not very useful for geospatial data).

overtomanu3• 2 years ago

List of db clients I have bookmarked

https://dbeaver.io/

https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/1800-database-navigator

https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/developer-tools/sql-devel...

http://squirrel-sql.sourceforge.net/

https://dbgate.org/screenshots/

TUIs:

https://harlequin.sh/

https://terminaltrove.com/gobang/

Not free:

https://www.jetbrains.com/datagrip/

troyvit• 2 years ago

I'll add:

CLIs: https://www.mycli.net/ https://www.pgcli.com/

KronisLV• 2 years ago

Some other tools I have also enjoyed:

DBVisualizer: https://www.dbvis.com/ (for exploring the schema)

Jailer: https://wisser.github.io/Jailer/ (for data browsing)

Aside from that, it's usually just been a mix of using specialized tools like MySQL Workbench, SQL Developer, pgAdmin and others, or something that tries to do it all like DataGrip.

Didn't actually find anything particularly amazing about DataGrip, but if I'm paying for the JetBrains Ultimate subscription, might as well use it because it's pretty okay.

irq-1• 2 years ago

https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/1800-database-navigator

This looks good. Anyone have experience with it?

diseasedyak• 2 years ago

I work primarily with Teradata, and prefer Toad over DBeaver. I've tried to use DBeaver but for some reason when creating objects or performing DML, it looks like the command successfully completed when it actually did not. Perhaps I'm doing something wrong...

yurytom• 2 years ago

DBeaver is a great free tool. I use it for Postgres.

Kerbonut• 2 years ago

Throwing another one out there… Azure Data Studio is finally matured and has extensions for MySQL and PostgreSQL.

LunaSea• 2 years ago

Like most Java software, it's incredibly memory hungry.

lovestaco• 2 years ago

I use Adminer, very minimal

https://github.com/vrana/adminer

WeMoveOn• 2 years ago

the different formats you can export data out in is pretty great, especially the export sql option.

DBeaver – open-source database client

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