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What are Database Clients?
Database clients are tools or applications used to connect to a database server and interact with its data. They allow users to perform operations such as querying, updating, inserting, and deleting records through a structured language. These clients often offer intuitive interfaces or command-line options to simplify database management tasks. They are essential for managing data efficiently, catering to both small-scale and enterprise-level needs. By providing a bridge between users and the database, they streamline data access and administration. Compare and read user reviews of the best Database Clients currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.
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DbVisualizer
DbVisualizer
DbVisualizer is one of the world's most popular database editors. With almost 7 million downloads and Pro users in 150 countries worldwide, it won't disappoint you. Free and Pro versions are available. Developers, analysts, and DBAs use it to elevate their SQL experience with modern tools to visualize and manage their databases, schemas, objects, and table data, auto-generate, write, and optimize queries, and so much more. It connects to all popular databases, such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, Oracle, Cassandra, Snowflake, SQLite, BigQuery, and 30+ others, and runs on all popular OSes (Windows, macOS, and Linux). A powerful SQL editor with intelligent autocomplete, visual query builders, variables, and more. You can fully control window layouts, key bindings, UI theme, mark scripts, and database objects as favorites for quick access or even work outside of DbVisualizer. DbVisualizer is also built to meet rigorous security standards, all configurable within the product.Starting Price: Free -
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DataGrip
JetBrains
Meet DataGrip, our new database IDE that is tailored to suit the specific needs of professional SQL developers. Allows you to execute queries in different modes and provides a local history that keeps track of all your activity and protects you from losing your work. Lets you jump to any table, view, or procedure by its name via the corresponding action, or directly from its usages in the SQL code. Gives you an extended insight into how your queries work and into the database engine behavior, so you can make your queries more efficient. DataGrip provides context-sensitive code completion, helping you to write SQL code faster. Completion is aware of the tables structure, foreign keys, and even database objects created in code you're editing. DataGrip detects probable bugs in your code and suggests the best options to fix them on the fly. It will immediately let you know about unresolved objects, using keywords as identifiers and always offers a way to fix the problems.Starting Price: $199 per year -
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DBeaver
DBeaver
Free multi-platform database tool for developers, database administrators, analysts and all people who need to work with databases. Supports all popular databases: MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Oracle, DB2, SQL Server, Sybase, MS Access, Teradata, Firebird, Apache Hive, Phoenix, Presto, etc. Copy As: format configuration editor was added. Extra configuration for filter dialog (performance). Sort by column as fixed (for small fetch sizes). Case-insensitive filters support was added. Plaintext view now support top/bottom dividers. Data editor was fixed (when column name conflicts with alias name). Duplicate row(s) command was fixed for multiple selected rows. Edit sub-menu was returned to the context menu. Columns auto-size configuration was added. Dictionary viewer was fixed (for read-only connections). Current/selected row highlighting support was added (configurable). -
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Navicat Premium
Navicat
Navicat Premium is a database development tool that allows you to simultaneously connect to MySQL, MariaDB, MongoDB, SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL, and SQLite databases from a single application. Compatible with cloud databases like Amazon RDS, Amazon Aurora, Amazon Redshift, Microsoft Azure, Oracle Cloud, Google Cloud and MongoDB Atlas. You can quickly and easily build, manage and maintain your databases. Data Transfer, Data Synchronization and Structure Synchronization help you migrate your data easier and faster for less overhead. Deliver detailed, step-by-step guidelines for transferring data across various DBMS. Compare and synchronize databases with Data and Structure Synchronization. Set up and deploy the comparisons in seconds, and get the detailed script to specify the changes you want to execute.Starting Price: $64.99 per month -
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DbSchema
Wise Coders
DbSchema is for visual designing the schema in a team, deploy and document the schema. Other integrated features like data explorer, visual query editor, data generator, etc., makes DbSchema an every-day tool for everybody who interacts with databases. DbSchema supports all relational and No-SQL databases, including MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Microsoft SQL Server, MongoDB, MariaDB, Redshift, Snowflake, Google and more. DbSchema is reverse-engineering the database schema from the database and visualize it as diagrams. You will interact with the database using diagrams and visual tools. DbSchema model is using its copy of schema structure, independent from the database. This allows the schema deployment on multiple databases, save the design model to file, store it in GIT and design the schema in a team, design the schema without database connectivity, compare different versions of the schema and generate SQL migration scripts.Starting Price: $63 one time payment -
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SQLGate
CHEQUER
SQLGate is a simple but powerful IDE for multiple SQL databases. As an integrated database management and development solution, it simplifies the construction and operation of databases. It is customized for seven different databases that make up 83.2% of the DBMS market. These include Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, MariaDB, Tibero, and PostgreSQL. SQLGate makes it easier and quicker to deal with databases holding large amounts of data. Multiple Languages available: Korean, English, Spanish, French, Japanese, etc..Starting Price: Free -
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Oracle SQL Developer
Oracle
Oracle SQL Developer is a free, integrated development environment that simplifies the development and management of Oracle Database in both traditional and Cloud deployments. SQL Developer offers complete end-to-end development of your PL/SQL applications, a worksheet for running queries and scripts, a DBA console for managing the database, a reports interface, a complete data modeling solution, and a migration platform for moving your 3rd party databases to Oracle. Run your sql and sql scripts, manage users, create and edit objects, import data to new or existing tables, diagnose performance issues, visualize your schemas, and much more. The power of your favorite desktop tool, in your browser. Available with Oracle REST Data Services for your on-premises instances. Migrate Oracle On-Premises to Oracle Cloud. Click, browse, and managed the contents of your Oracle Database. -
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Aqua Data Studio
AquaFold, an Idera, Inc. company
Aqua Data Studio is a multiple-platform, integrated development environment (IDE) for data. It provides benefits to a variety of data-centric roles, allowing them to manage a wide range of data sources. Aqua Data Studio provides scalable, cross-platform data management, supporting IT and data-centric specialists, including developers, database administrators, as well as data analysts, data modelers, and data architects. Simplifies tedious tasks involving SQL queries, data, result sets, schema, data models, files, instances, servers, as well as automation. Aqua Data Studio can be installed on the three popular operating systems: Microsoft Windows, Apple macOS, and Linux. The graphical user interface can display the nine of the most widely spoken languages: English, Spanish, French, German, Korean, Portuguese, Japanese, and Chinese. Aqua Data Studio supports over 40 of the most popular data source platforms, including relational, NoSQL, as well as managed cloud data sourceStarting Price: $499 per user per year -
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TablePlus
TablePlus InC
Modern, native client with intuitive GUI tools to create, access, query & edit multiple databases: MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Microsoft SQL Server, Amazon Redshift, MariaDB, CockroachDB, Vertica, Cassandra, Snowflake, Oracle, Redis.Starting Price: $59.00 -
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dbForge Edge
Devart
dbForge Edge is the newest Devart product - the multidatabase software solution covers all database-related jobs, allowing its users to accelerate the tasks' completion, save costs, and improve overall productivity. A set of powerful features applies to all most popular database management systems - MySQL and MariaDB, SQL Server, Oracle, and PostgreSQL. Notice the most helpful features of dbForge Edge: Database design & development. Convert ER diagrams to actual databases or reverse-engineer databases. SQL coding assistance. Visual query building. Query profiling. Database comparison & synchronization. Deploy changes to the target databases on different platforms. Data management. Data import/export. Data analysis and reporting. Database administration.Starting Price: $99.95 -
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JackDB
JackDB
Write and execute queries in a fully interactive SQL editor. JackDB has everything you'd want in a database client, including: syntax highlighting, code formatting, and intelligent autocompletion. Snippets allow your most useful SQL queries to be saved and shared. Simply write and save any query in JackDB, and share the snippet publicly with your team. Whenever anyone updates a snippet, everyone gets access to its latest version. Security is our highest priority at JackDB. Roles are a very convenient and secure way to restrict database access to authorized users and provision new users with access to data sources. Explore everything in your database, not just tables and views. View your indexes, schemas, and other important system details such as tablespaces and user sessions.Starting Price: $49 per user per month -
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HeidiSQL
HeidiSQL
HeidiSQL is free software, and has the aim to be easy to learn. "Heidi" lets you see and edit data and structures from computers running one of the database systems MariaDB, MySQL, Microsoft SQL, PostgreSQL and SQLite. Invented in 2002 by Ansgar, HeidiSQL belongs to the most popular tools for MariaDB and MySQL worldwide. Free for everyone, OpenSource. Connect to multiple servers in one window. Supported database systems: MariaDB, MySQL, MS SQL, PostgreSQL and SQLite. Connect to servers via commandline. Connect via SSH tunnel, or pass SSL settings. Create and edit tables, views, stored routines, triggers and scheduled events. Generate nice SQL-exports, compress these afterwards, or put them on the clipboard. Export from one server/database directly to another server/database. Manage user-privileges, import text-files, export table rows as CSV, HTML, XML, SQL, LaTeX, Wiki Markup and PHP Array. Browse and edit table-data using a comfortable grid.Starting Price: $0 -
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Beekeeper Studio
Beekeeper Studio
Encrypt your connection with SSL, or tunnel through SSH. Save a connection password and Beekeeper Studio will encrypt it. Our built-in editor provides syntax highlighting and auto-complete suggestions for your tables so you can work quickly and easily. Open dozens of tabs so you can work quickly without having to switch windows. Table DDL and data views get their own tabs too! Easily save and organize commonly used queries so you can use them again and again across all your connections. Beekeeper's SQL table creator lets you create, edit, and delete table columns in just a few clicks. Export a table to CSV, JSON, JSONL, or SQL with just a few clicks. Optionally apply filters to export only the data you need.Starting Price: $7 per month -
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QStudio
TimeStored
QStudio is a free, modern SQL editor supporting over 30 databases, including MySQL, PostgreSQL, and DuckDB. It offers features such as server browsing for easy viewing of tables, variables, functions, and configuration settings; SQL syntax highlighting; code completion; the ability to query servers directly from the editor; and built-in charts for data visualization. QStudio runs on Windows, Mac, and Linux, providing particularly good support for kdb+, Parquet, PRQL, and DuckDB. Additional functionalities include data pivoting similar to Excel, exporting data to Excel or CSV, and AI-powered tools like Text2SQL for generating queries from plain English, Explain-My-Query for code walkthroughs, and Explain-My-Error for debugging assistance. Simply send the query you want and select the chart type to draw a chart. Send queries straight from within the editor to any of your servers. All data structures are handled perfectly.Starting Price: Free -
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Adminer
Adminer
Replace phpMyAdmin with Adminer and you will get a tidier user interface, better support for MySQL features, higher performance and more security. Security is #1 priority in development of Adminer. Adminer does not allow connecting to databases without a password and it rate-limits the connection attempts to protect against brute-force attacks. Still, consider making Adminer inaccessible to public by whitelisting IP addresses allowed to connect to it, password-protecting the access in your web server, enabling security plugins (e.g. to require an OTP) or by customizing the login method. You can also delete Adminer if not needed anymore, it is just one file which is easy to upload in the future. Adminer had some security bugs in the past so update whenever Adminer tells you there is a new version available (ask your administrator if you could not update yourself). Connect to a database server with username and password. /Select an existing database or create a new one. -
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DBHawk
Datasparc
Using DBHawk, our customers were able to comply with GDPR, HIPAA, SOX, GLBA, and other regulations and were able to implement SOD. Self-Service BI & Ad-Hoc Reporting Tool with feature to define Data Access Policy, Connect to multiple Data sources, Build Powerful SQL Charts and data Dashboards. DBHawk SQL editor is an advanced editor that allows users to build, edit, and run database queries with a web-based interface. DBHawk Query Builder is supported with all major databases such as Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Greenplum, MySQL, DB2, Amazon Redshift, Hive, Amazon Athena. Database SQL tasks and batch job automation with a web-based centralized tool. Secure access to SQL, NoSQL and Cloud databases with our all-in-one data platform. Trusted by our customers to protect and access their data. Centralized Security, Auditing and insights about your user’s activities.Starting Price: $99.00/month/user -
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pgAdmin
pgAdmin
pgAdmin is a free software project released under the PostgreSQL/Artistic licence. The software is available in source and binary format from the PostgreSQL mirror network. Because compiling from source requires technical knowledge, we recommend installing binary packages whenever possible. pgAdmin is the most popular and feature rich Open Source administration and development platform for PostgreSQL, the most advanced Open Source database in the world. pgAdmin is a management tool for PostgreSQL and derivative relational databases such as EnterpriseDB's EDB Advanced Server. It may be run either as a web or desktop application. As pgAdmin is a web application, it can only interact with the local filesystem in ways that are allowed by modern web browsers. This limits what is possible for security; essentially files can only be "downloaded" or "uploaded" (through a form). -
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Toad
Quest
Toad Software is a database management toolset from Quest that database developers, database administrators and data analysts use to manage both relational and non-relational databases using SQL. Take a proactive approach to database management. Re-focus your teams on more strategic initiatives, and move your business forward in today’s data-driven economy. Toad solutions enable you to maximize your investment in data technology by empowering data professionals to automate processes, minimize risks and cut project delivery timelines by nearly half. Lower the total cost of ownership for new applications by reducing the impact of inefficient code on productivity, future development cycles, performance and availability. See why millions of users trust Toad for their most critical systems and data environments. It’s time to gain the competitive edge. Work smarter and meet the demands of today’s database environments. -
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SQLyog
Webyog
A Powerful MySQL Development and Administration Solution. SQLyog Ultimate enables database developers, administrators, and architects to visually compare, optimize, and document schemas. SQLyog Ultimate includes a power tool to automate and schedule the synchronization of data between two MySQL hosts. Create the job definition file using the interactive wizard. The tool does not require any installation on the MySQL hosts. You can use any host to run the tool. SQLyog Ultimate includes a power tool to interactively synchronize data. Run the tool in attended mode to compare data from source and target before taking action. Using the intuitive display, compare data on source and target for every row to decide whether it should be synchronized in which direction. SQLyog Ultimate includes a power tool to interactively compare and synchronize schema. View the differences between tables, indexes, columns, and routines of two databases. -
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phpMyAdmin
phpMyAdmin
phpMyAdmin is a free software tool written in PHP, intended to handle the administration of MySQL over the Web. phpMyAdmin supports a wide range of operations on MySQL and MariaDB. Frequently used operations (managing databases, tables, columns, relations, indexes, users, permissions, etc) can be performed via the user interface, while you still have the ability to directly execute any SQL statement. phpMyAdmin comes with a wide range of documentation and users are welcome to update our wiki pages to share ideas and howtos for various operations. The phpMyAdmin team will try to help you if you face any problem; you can use a variety of support channels to get help. To ease usage to a wide range of people, phpMyAdmin is being translated into 72 languages and supports both LTR and RTL languages. Browse and drop databases, tables, views, fields and indexes. Create, copy, drop, rename and alter databases, tables, fields and indexes. -
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Querious
Querious
View, search, edit, import, export, build, configure, and monitor your MySQL and compatible databases easier than ever before. Querious is full-featured, fast, and made exclusively for macOS, so it feels and works exactly how a Mac app should. The Content view is packed full of convenient features, such as a flexible multiple-condition filter, easy multi-row value assignment, row duplication, copying to the clipboard, and jumping to related tables through foreign keys. Other database programs will have a good editor for viewing table contents and querying, but then completely fall short when supporting other object types. Querious goes all the way, providing editors for everything you need. The various editors in Querious are a great way to expand your knowledge of MySQL by learning what's available and making it easy to use and change.Starting Price: $49 one-time payment -
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Valentina Studio
Paradigma Software
Create, administer, query and explore Valentina DB, MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL and SQLite databases for FREE. Design business reports running in Valentina Studio Pro, on Valentina Server or in an application with an Application Developer Kit. Backward Engineering in Standard with forwarding Engineering in Valentina Studio Pro. Reverse engineering and create diagrams for existing databases. Add new objects to diagrams. Write SQL queries with auto-completion, color syntax. Define, manage, save favorite queries; access recent queries. Function browser dictionary of each function. Consoles for errors, warnings, and performance. Search, Export result records into CSV, JSON, Excel. Edit properties of multiple objects at the same time. Drill down to tables and fields; incredible fast searching. Reverse engineering and create diagrams for existing databases. Add new objects to diagrams. Add/drop users, and groups, and manage privileges. -
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MySQL Workbench
Oracle
MySQL Workbench is a unified visual tool for database architects, developers, and DBAs. MySQL Workbench provides data modeling, SQL development, and comprehensive administration tools for server configuration, user administration, backup, and much more. MySQL Workbench is available on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. MySQL Workbench enables a DBA, developer, or data architect to visually design, model, generate, and manage databases. It includes everything a data modeler needs for creating complex ER models, forward and reverse engineering, and also delivers key features for performing difficult change management and documentation tasks that normally require much time and effort. MySQL Workbench delivers visual tools for creating, executing, and optimizing SQL queries. The SQL Editor provides color syntax highlighting, auto-complete, reuse of SQL snippets, and execution history of SQL. The Database Connections Panel enables developers to easily manage standard database connections. -
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Postico
Postico
Postico is a database client. Postico can connect to a local PostgreSQL server running on your Mac, or to remote servers running on a different computer. If you want to install a local PostgreSQL server on your Mac, I recommend Postgres.app. Postgres.app starts a PostgreSQL server running locally on your Mac. The first time it starts it will automatically create a new data directory and set up an empty database. After a few moments, the server will be running and waiting for connections. Postgres.app can't start when another PostgreSQL server is already running on your computer. If you run into problems, make sure to deactivate or uninstall other PostgreSQL installations. Reboot your computer after uninstalling! To connect to a PostgreSQL server with Postico, you must first create a favorite. A favorite contains parameters for connecting to a server. Some connection parameters are optional. -
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SQLNotebook
TimeStored
SQL Notebooks allow developers to write Markdown combined with SQL to produce live HTML5 reports. They offer a lightning-fast, modern HTML5 interface where data sources are queried in real time. Users can create beautiful, live-updating SQL notebooks, easily source control the code, and take static snapshots to share with colleagues who don't have database access. SQL Notebooks are available in both QStudio Version 4, a desktop SQL client based on editing markdown files locally, and Pulse Version 3, which serves as a shared team server accessible via a web address. To help users get started, a showcase of example notebooks has been created in collaboration with leading community members; these examples are snapshotted versions with static data, and the source markdown and most of the data to recreate them are available on GitHub. -
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SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
Microsoft
SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) is an integrated environment for managing any SQL infrastructure, from SQL Server to Azure SQL Database. SSMS provides tools to configure, monitor, and administer instances of SQL Server and databases. Use SSMS to deploy, monitor, and upgrade the data-tier components used by your applications, and build queries and scripts. Use SSMS to query, design, and manage your databases and data warehouses, wherever they are - on your local computer, or in the cloud.
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