Best Database Clients for Linux

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.

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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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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.

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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.

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Starting Price: $63 one time payment

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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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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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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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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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dbKoda

dbKoda’s rich code editor allows you to compose MongoDB queries and scripts with syntax highlighting, auto-complete and code formatting. View output in foldable JSON, tabular format or as a chart. Generate visual explain plans with a single click. The explain plan viewer will suggest indexes that may improve performance, and provide one-button creation of those indexes. Build simple queries or complex aggregates using the graphical query builder. dbKoda lets you perform administrative activities using fil-in-the-blanks actions from the database tree. Manage configuration, user roles, logging, database storage, and data import/export without having to lookup obscure MongoDB syntax. We construct the appropriate commands as you fill-in-the-blanks, so you can re-use the command in admin scripts or tweak the syntax as desired. dbKoda includes an SSH terminal that allows command line access to the server OS, so you can issue OS commands directly from within the dbKoda product.

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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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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DbGate

DbGate has a very powerful data browser and editor. It allows you to quickly find or modify, what you need, even when using complicated relations. In most cases, using a data browser is far more efficient than typing a query by hand or use a query designer (but you can, of course, use all these variants in DbGate too). Database compare tool is super fast, compare to other DB compare tools, as it uses already cached DB models. You can browse and filter objects by type (table, view, procedure function) and by comparing status (equal, changed, added, removed). You can select objects to be synchronized into the target database. Deploy script preview is shown to the user and must be confirmed before applying. DB model could be downloaded from the database into a set of YAML files describing table structure (one YAML file for each table) and SQL files describing other database objects (table, view, procedure function).

Starting Price: Free

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Navicat for MySQL

Navicat

Navicat for MySQL is the ideal solution for MySQL/MariaDB administration and development. It is a single application that allows you to connect to MySQL and MariaDB databases simultaneously. Compatible with cloud databases like Amazon RDS, Amazon Aurora, Oracle Cloud, Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure. This all-inclusive frontend provides an intuitive and powerful graphical interface for database management, development, and maintenance.

Starting Price: $17.99 per month

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dbForge Studio for MySQL

Devart

dbForge Studio for MySQL is a multi-featured IDE that covers nearly every aspect of MySQL and MariaDB development, management, administration, data analysis, and reporting. The rich feature set of the Studio is augmented by a clean and intuitive GUI and CLI-powered automation capabilities. Key features: Database Development. dbForge Studio for MySQL offers quite a few features to streamline routine SQL coding and ensure the high quality of the output. Database Design. In terms of database design, the Studio provides visual object editors and handy functionality that helps you visualize databases on entity-relationship diagrams. Database Management. The Studio delivers a set of features for effective and versatile database management. Data Analysis & Reporting. dbForge Studio for MySQL facilitates data aggregation, analysis, and reporting. Database Administration. There are also integrated features to ensure quick and smooth database administration.

Starting Price: $9.95

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dbForge Studio for PostgreSQL

Devart

dbForge Studio for PostgreSQL is a GUI tool for database development and management. The IDE for PostgreSQL allows users to create, develop, and execute queries, edit and adjust the code to your requirements in a convenient and user-friendly interface. The tool provides a data editing tool to customize your queries and property window so that users can view all the required information of PostgreSQL database objects they are interested in. Key features: *SQL Development. Save your time and improve code quality when creating and editing queries. *Explorer. Navigate through the object tree and find any PostgreSQL object you want. *Data Editor. Users can manage the settings of tables. *Data Export and Data Import. Supports 10+ widely used data formats, a number of advanced options, and templates for recurring scenarios. *Query Profiler. *Data and Schema Compare. *Data Generator. *Pivot Table.

Starting Price: $89.95

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dbForge Studio for Oracle

Devart

dbForge Studio for Oracle is a powerful integrated development environment (IDE) which helps Oracle SQL developers to increase PL/SQL coding speed, provides versatile data editing tools for managing in-database and external data. This Oracle IDE allows synchronizing data between different Oracle servers and automating schema change management process during development. dbForge Oracle GUI features powerful functionality wrapped into a smooth management Oracle GUI consistent with Microsoft Visual Studio. Key features: * PL/SQL coding assistant * Database Project * Oracle Database Management * Data Generator * Documenter * Object Manager * Oracle PL/SQL Debugger * Query Builder * Query Profiler * Schema Import/Export * Database Administration * Database Designer * Import/Export Data * Report and Analysis * Find Object You can always find the latest version of the product on the official Devart website.

Starting Price: $149.95

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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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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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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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SQL Workbench

SQL Workbench/J is a free, DBMS-independent, cross-platform SQL query tool. It is written in Java and should run on any operating system that provides a Java Runtime Environment. Its main focus is on running SQL scripts (either interactively or as a batch) and export/import features. Graphical query building or more advanced DBA tasks are not the focus and are not planned. Powerful export command to write text files (aka "CSV"), XML, HTML or SQL (including BLOB data). All user tables can be exported into a directory with a single command. Export files can be compressed "on-the-fly". Powerful text, XML and spreadsheet import. A set of files (including compressed files) can be imported from a directory with a single command. Foreign key constraints are detected to insert the data in the correct order. Compare two database schemas for differences. The XML output can be transformed into the approriate SQL ALTER statements using XSLT.

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Datazenit

Modern database administration tool. Cross-platform MySQL and PostgreSQL GUI with data grid, schema builder, and interactive charts. Datazenit is a web-based database administration tool. It features a smart data grid, query builder, schema editor, live charts, and raw query editor with auto-complete. The goal is to build a modern and intelligent database tool that would increase productivity. The schema editor has been designed with developer productivity in mind. It is equipped with intelligent features similar to the ones you could find in an IDE. Users can choose to query data via a graphical user interface instead of a classic raw query editor. Query builder supports multiple conditions, sorting and more. Various chart styles can be used to create effective visualizations, like scatter, line, area, bar, and pie chart. Best of all, they can be shared or embedded. Enjoy an advanced data grid with different editors like text area, dropdown, checkbox, and a calendar.

Starting Price: $49 one-time payment

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Compare the Top Database Clients for Linux as of April 2025

What are Database Clients for Linux?

DbVisualizer

Studio 3T

Fuego

Navicat Premium

DbSchema

Oracle SQL Developer

myway SQL Manager

dbForge Studio for SQL Server

ClusterControl

TablePlus

dbForge Edge

Aqua Data Studio

Postbird

dbKoda

Navicat for PostgreSQL

Kangaroo

Sqlectron

MongoDB Compass

NoSQLBooster

Mongotron

DbGate

Navicat for MySQL

dbForge Studio for MySQL

dbForge Studio for PostgreSQL

dbForge Studio for Oracle

QStudio

pgAdmin

SQLyog

SQL Workbench

Datazenit

Best Database Clients for Linux

Compare the Top Database Clients for Linux as of April 2025

What are Database Clients for Linux?

DbVisualizer

Studio 3T

Fuego

Navicat Premium

DbSchema

Oracle SQL Developer

myway SQL Manager

dbForge Studio for SQL Server

ClusterControl

TablePlus

dbForge Edge

Aqua Data Studio

Postbird

dbKoda

Navicat for PostgreSQL

Kangaroo

Sqlectron

MongoDB Compass

NoSQLBooster

Mongotron

DbGate

Navicat for MySQL

dbForge Studio for MySQL

dbForge Studio for PostgreSQL

dbForge Studio for Oracle

QStudio

pgAdmin

SQLyog

SQL Workbench

Datazenit

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