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ganomi | 5 years ago

Free alternative i have been using for some years now: https://dbeaver.io/

The community edition is updated more often than i would like and sometimes features break but bugs get fixed quickly and they add usefull stuff all the time.

Dont know what i would do if i was stuck with pgAdmin...

discuss

piggybox|5 years ago

I'm using it on daily basis but it's not a smooth experience. I'm not sure if it's just me that very time I switch to a new database in dbeaver and start running a different query ... more often than not it's just stuck there for more than half min and eventually told me it's not connected to the new database yet so I had to refresh the connection. For all the SQL tools I've used, dbeaver takes the the longest to realize it's actually not connected to a db. It's not fun.

nickjj|5 years ago

This is my only real complaint with DBeaver.

You have to invalidate / refresh the DB connection so often and this is really an issue when you use Docker in development.

If you do a docker-compose stop and then docker-compose up, your PostgreSQL connection will drop which means you need to reset it in DBeaver manually.

mercer|5 years ago

I quite like Postico (Mac-only though)

https://eggerapps.at/postico/

thibaut_barrere|5 years ago

It's Mac-only, but also Postgres-only! TablePlus has wider datastores support.

will_raw|5 years ago

Using Postico for long time, great so far and is also cheaper.

anhthang|5 years ago

I like SequelPro. The UI much simpler, powerful, but it's inactivated, nobody working on it to update for new macOS :(

casperb|5 years ago

I loved it and would pay for it. But after 3 months of restarting it a couple of times a day since the 2018 Mac update, I switched to TablePlus.

I still miss SequelPro, as its search and export features where way better then TablePlus’ way.

HatchedLake721|5 years ago

Which is a big shame. I'm happy to $$$ pay for Sequel Pro, but it's been abandoned for 1-2 years now?

datasage|5 years ago

Nightly builds have some fixes, but it does seem to be mostly abandoned.

welly|5 years ago

I've been using mysql workbench for a few years now. Is free, works well, is cross platform and open source.

tbrock|5 years ago

1990s Java swing clunky UI... would rather use CLI IMHO.

pyr0hu|5 years ago

That literally the name of the animal

sjbr|5 years ago

it's not swing, it's SWT that is why it has the native look

wenc|5 years ago

DBeaver is great for MySQL databases. HeidiSQL is another good one for MySQL databases.

pgAdmin is not good.