Best Database Clients

DbVisualizer

DbVisualizer is one of the world’s most popular database editors. 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, and to auto-generate, write and optimize queries. And so much more. It connects to all popular databases (e.g. MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, Oracle, Cassandra, Snowflake, SQLite, BigQuery, and 20+ more) and runs on all popular OSes (Windows, macOS, and Linux). With almost 6 million downloads and Pro-users in 145 countries around the world, it won’t let you down. Free and Pro versions are available.

473 Ratings

Starting Price: $197/perpetual license

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Studio 3T

Auto-complete queries in a built-in mongo shell that highlights syntax errors as you type and saves your query history. Perfect for MongoDB beginners, a time-saver for pros. Use a drag-and-drop UI to build complex find() queries and filter array elements. Break down aggregation queries into manageable steps and build them stage by stage, for easier debugging and querying. Generate instant code in JavaScript (Node.js), Java (2.x and 3.x driver API), Python, C#, PHP, and Ruby from MongoDB and SQL queries that you can copy and paste into your application. Save MongoDB imports, exports, data comparisons, and migrations as tasks that you can run on demand. Or even better, skip the reminders and schedule them to run exactly when you need them. Make changes to your collection’s schema in just a few clicks, perfect for schema performance tuning, restructuring, or cleaning up after data migration.

Starting Price: $249/year/user

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Fuego

MiServe

Fuego is a powerful desktop app for managing Firestore and Firebase Authentication, built for speed, control, and productivity. It lets you explore and edit documents, run advanced queries, and perform bulk operations like updates, deletes, and imports—all with background processing and multi-project support. You can manage Auth users, create custom dashboards, recover data with Point-in-Time Recovery, and work seamlessly with the Firestore emulator. Fuego also supports export/import, offline access, and advanced tools for real-world Firebase workflows. Available for macOS, with Windows and Linux coming soon.

Starting Price: €7.50 (paid annually)

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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.

2 Ratings

Starting Price: $199 per year

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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).

2 Ratings

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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.

1 Rating

Starting Price: $64.99 per month

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Retool

Retool is an application development platform that enables developers to combine the benefits of traditional software development with a drag-and-drop UI editor and AI to build internal tools radically faster. Building in Retool fits with how you develop software today—deploy it anywhere, connect to any internal service, import your libraries, debug with your toolchain, and share it securely to users—ensuring good and well-governed software by default. Retool is used by industry leaders such as Amazon, American Express, DoorDash, OpenAI, and Mercedes Benz for mission critical custom software across operations, billing, and customer support.

1 Rating

Starting Price: $10 per user 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.

1 Rating

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..

1 Rating

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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DronaHQ

DronaHQ is a low-code platform to build internal tools and custom apps for the web and mobile. Developers and engineering teams use this platform to create admin panels, CRUD apps, GUI for Databases or APIs, forms, dashboards & operational apps. Key features include: - Customizable UI components - Mobile + Web app output - 10x faster app development - Seamless integration to any existing tech stack - Scalable cloud-based architecture - Over 50 Engineering Support Hours (UVP) - Free forever developer plans With 3000+ Apps built and 1 million+ users supported, DronaHQ is a platform trusted by global companies.

Starting Price: $0/month

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myway SQL Manager

The myway SQL Manager is a powerful program for MySQL and MariaDB database administration and programming. Download and using the program is free. Operation on the Intranet or Internet. Web based. Built in PHP and Javascript, fully Ajax controlled. All modules speed-optimized. 132 languages. Tab controlled. Work on multiple tables or other database elements at the same time. Backup copies in case of changes or deletions of views and routines. User management with program rights. Configuration options for program settings and layout for users. Own server connections with individual editing rights for users. Unlimited number of server connections to MySQL or MariaDB databases. Extensive information and editing options on connected servers. Editing tables, sequences, views, procedures, functions, trigger, events. Backup and Recovery. Data import and export. Powerful SQL editor, syntax highlighting, search and replace. Search function for database elements. Helplinks.

Starting Price: $0

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dbForge Studio for SQL Server

Devart

dbForge Studio for SQL Server is a comprehensive platform with an intuitive graphical user interface and robust functionality that enables users to handle a variety of database-related tasks both on-premises and in the cloud. Key Features: T-SQL editor with intelligent code completion, debugging, formatting, and more Database schema and data comparison and synchronization Source Control with support for all popular version control systems Visual database designer with ER diagrams. Visual Query Builder for constructing complex T-SQL queries Data import and export Data generator of high-quality test data Real-time database monitoring Query Profiler with analysis and optimization Data analysis, visualization, and reporting Automatic database documenting Task automation via the Command line dbForge Studio for SQL Server is a powerful alternative to SSMS. It offers the features of the default SQL Server IDE along with many additional tools and options.

Starting Price: $229.95

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ClusterControl

Severalnines

ClusterControl is a hybrid, multi-cloud database ops orchestration platform for MongoDB, Elasticsearch, Redis, TimescaleDB, SQL Server on Linux, Galera Cluster, PostgreSQL, and MySQL in on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments. It handles full-lifecycle operations, from deployment to failover, backup and more. With its full suite of databases, ops features and ability to be deployed in any environment, it enables organizations to implement the Sovereign DBaaS concept. ClusterControl is perfect for organizations that need to reliably run large-scale, open-source database operations but don't want to be limited by traditional DBaaS providers in environment choice, open-source license stability, and DB access.

Starting Price: €250/node/month

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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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Forest Admin

Forest Admin is a low-code internal tool solution that helps developers rapidly equip their business teams with internal tools such as fully-featured admin panels, dashboards, and database manipulation tools that are tailored to their operations and ready to scale. All you need is to connect a data source and a fully-featured admin panel is auto-generated from your data in a few moments. Then easily customize it with low-code components to meet your unique needs. Here is what you can do with Forest Admin: - Leverage out-of-the-box CRUD, Search and Filtering functionalities to manage your data. - Set up Dev, Staging and Production environments to control every step of your development process. - Assign different Roles and manage granular permissions. Create different Layouts for each of your Teams. - Enforce two-factor authentication for all users - Change the look of Forest Admin to match your company's branding. - Trigger custom actions. And more!

Starting Price: $0.00/month

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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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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 source

Starting Price: $499 per user per year

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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 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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EMS SQL Management Studio

EMS Software

EMS SQL Management Studio for PostgreSQL is a complete solution for PostgreSQL database administration and development. The single workbench provides you with must-have tools for managing PostgreSQL databases and objects, as well as for database design, migration, extraction, query building, data import and export, database comparison, and running service tasks. Get access to all databases and their objects from a single console and manage them with a user-friendly interface. You can create and modify all server and database objects, set necessary properties, and view detailed info in advanced visual editors. Transfer structure changes from development to production database automatically with Compare databases tool. Create ER diagrams for newly developed databases to quickly deploy them. Create database maintenance tasks with advanced options and let SQL Studio run them on a regular basis.

Starting Price: $260 one-time payment

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DrawSQL

With DrawSQL you can design, visualize, and collaborate on entity relationship diagrams for your databases. Easily visualize your database schema and see how everything fits together. Having a living document of your app schema helps when architecting a new feature or onboarding a new team member. Invite your teammates to collaborate on your database diagrams. With drawSQL as a single source of truth, no need to manually sync diagram files between different developers and offline tools anymore. Create professional diagrams that stand out. Unlike other database clients, drawSQL's editor is easy to use, looks nice, and focuses on helping you visualize your database schemas without being bloated with other database management features. Create a diagram for your app database in less than 15 minutes. Work together to design, model, and document the database schema of your app. Provides diagram versioning and access controls.

Starting Price: $15 per month

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Postbird

Paxa

Postbird is a cross-platform PostgreSQL GUI client, written in JavaScript, and runs with Electron. Supports views, material views, foreign tables, constraints, and schemas, and connects to Heroku's Postgres. Can manage extensions, procedures, users, filter tables, edit values, and import & export tables or databases. Have comfortable query editing with saving the last query, syntax highlighting, keyboard shortcuts, search, snippets, query history, viewing large results, explaining formatting, and saving results as CSV.

Starting Price: Free

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Navicat for PostgreSQL

Navicat

Navicat for PostgreSQL is an easy-to-use graphical tool for PostgreSQL database development. From writing simple SQL queries to developing complex databases, Navicat for PostgreSQL is designed to accommodate a wide range of users, from PostgreSQL beginners to seasoned developers. Connect to local/remote PostgreSQL servers and compatible with cloud databases like Amazon Redshift, Amazon Aurora, Amazon RDS, Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure, and all PostgreSQL database objects. Navicat provides users with our Navicat Cloud service. Sync your connection settings and queries to the cloud so you can get real-time queries and connections anytime and anywhere. With Navicat Cloud, you can leverage every minute of your day to maximize your productivity. Navicat allows you to establish secure SSH sessions through SSH Tunneling, ensuring strong authentication and secure encryption between two hosts. The authentication method can use a password or a public/private key pair.

Starting Price: $17.99 per month

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Kangaroo

SQL client and admin tool for popular databases. A simple and Intuitive GUI helps you focus on data and finish your work quickly. Focus on the experience of editing, and make you feel smooth when working with it. GTK and Adwaita with Vala-based native application, focus on performance, focus on responsible. MySQL/PostgreSQL connection is more complicated because it supports multi-authentication methods, so you should prepare material before making a connection. Your connection could be through the private network over SSH(and over proxy), the built-in SSH client could help you do it. Drag and drop an SQLite database file from the file manager into the connection home page, the connection is created quickly. Create an empty file with SQLite file extension, then drag and drop it on the connection home page to create a connection. GTK4 has HiDPI support on all platforms, all GTK4 apps will scale with the system scale setting automatically.

Starting Price: Free

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PostgreSQL Maestro

SQL Maestro

Complete and powerful database management, admin, and development tool for PostgreSQL. Browse, create, edit, duplicate, rename, and drop all schema objects like tables, views, functions, or triggers in the simplest way possible. Simplify your data modeling tasks. Create tables and relations in a few mouse clicks. Print diagrams or export them to a number of graphical file formats. Browse, edit, print, sort, group, and filter your data using a wide spectrum of available tools including master-detail views. Build graphical diagrams and OLAP cubes. Enjoy a feature-rich SQL Editor with code completion, code folding, and SQL formatted, or build your queries visually. Export your data to as many as 20 most popular file formats or import data from Excel, CSV, XML and other files. Make your server safe and secure with powerful tools provided by PostgreSQL Maestro. Split denormalized tables, generate DML procedures or updatable views, and check nullable columns with a few mouse clicks.

Starting Price: $99 one-time payment

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Sqlectron

A simple and lightweight SQL client desktop/terminal with cross-database and platform support. A desktop application with a simple interface. Sign and notarize builds for macOS. Supports PostgreSQL and MySQL. Sqlectronhas also has a GUI interface called sqlectron-gui. Most of the time you should not worry about files, because Sqlectron will manage the configuration for you. The paging is not done in SQL query, instead, it is done during the results rendering. Supports PostgreSQL, Redshift, MySQL, MariaDB, Microsoft SQL Server, Cassandra, and SQLite.Although it is possible to change files manually, it is usually better to just use the UI since it allows you to change any of the settings from there.

Starting Price: Free

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MongoDB Compass

MongoDB

Easily work with your data in Compass, the GUI built by — and for — MongoDB. Compass provides everything from schema analysis to index optimization to aggregation pipelines in a single, centralized interface. Dissect your document schema to understand your data at a deeper level. Compass samples and analyzes your documents to provide detailed metadata on your collections, including the ranges of dates and integers, most frequent values, and more. Find the data you need in seconds with Compass’ built-in query bar. Filter the documents within your collection using intuitive query operators that correspond to expressions in other languages. Sample, sort, and modify results with high granularity. Add new indexes and remove underperforming ones to optimize queries, monitor real-time server and database metrics, investigate performance issues with the visual explain plan, and more.

Starting Price: Free

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NoSQLBooster

NoSQLBooster is a cross-platform GUI tool for MongoDB Server 3.6-6.0, which provides a build-in MongoDB script debugger, comprehensive server monitoring tools, chaining fluent query, SQL query, query code generator, task scheduling, ES2020 support, and advanced IntelliSense experience. NoSQLBooster embeds V8 JavaScript engine. No external MongoDB command line tools dependence. Support MongoDB 3.6-6.0. With NoSQLBooster for MongoDB, you can run SQL SELECT Query against MongoDB. SQL support includes SQL JOINS, functions, expressions, aggregation for collections with nested objects and arrays.

Starting Price: $129 one-time payment

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Mongotron

A Mongo DB GUI built using Electron, and Angular Js.

Starting Price: Free

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Compare the Top Database Clients as of April 2025

What are Database Clients?

DbVisualizer

Studio 3T

Fuego

DataGrip

DBeaver

Navicat Premium

Retool

DbSchema

SQLGate

Oracle SQL Developer

DronaHQ

myway SQL Manager

dbForge Studio for SQL Server

ClusterControl

TablePlus

Forest Admin

dbForge Edge

Aqua Data Studio

JackDB

HeidiSQL

EMS SQL Management Studio

DrawSQL

Postbird

Navicat for PostgreSQL

Kangaroo

PostgreSQL Maestro

Sqlectron

MongoDB Compass

NoSQLBooster

Mongotron

Best Database Clients

Compare the Top Database Clients as of April 2025

What are Database Clients?

DbVisualizer

Studio 3T

Fuego

DataGrip

DBeaver

Navicat Premium

Retool

DbSchema

SQLGate

Oracle SQL Developer

DronaHQ

myway SQL Manager

dbForge Studio for SQL Server

ClusterControl

TablePlus

Forest Admin

dbForge Edge

Aqua Data Studio

JackDB

HeidiSQL

EMS SQL Management Studio

DrawSQL

Postbird

Navicat for PostgreSQL

Kangaroo

PostgreSQL Maestro

Sqlectron

MongoDB Compass

NoSQLBooster

Mongotron

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