Software:Comparison of database administration tools

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The following tables compare general and technical information for a number of available database administration tools. Please see individual product articles for further information. This article is neither all-inclusive nor necessarily up to date.

Systems listed on a light purple background are no longer in active development.

General

Product Creator Latest stable release date Latest stable release License Runs on Windows Runs on Mac OS X Runs on Linux Oracle MySQL PostgreSQL MS SQL Server ODBC JDBC SQLite Other Programming language
DatabaseSpy Altova Proprietary Yes No No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes IBM Db2, Sybase, MS Access C++
Database Workbench Upscene Productions 2022-09-20 6.1.0 Proprietary Yes requires Wine requires Wine Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes InterBase, Firebird, SQL Anywhere, NexusDB and MariaDB Delphi
DataGrip JetBrains 2023-08-17 2023.2.1 Proprietary Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Sybase, IBM Db2, H2, Hypersonic SQL, Amazon Redshift, Apache Derby, Redis, MongoDB, Snowflake, Exasol, BigQuery, Cassandra, ClickHouse, CockroachDB, Couchbase Java
DBeaver Serge Rider 2023-11-20 23.2.5[1] Apache License Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes EXASOL, IBM Db2, Apache Derby, Firebird, Mimer SQL, and all with JDBC driver Java
DBEdit Jef Van Den Ouweland 2012-05-10 2.4.6 GPL Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes IBM Db2, HSQLDB, Apache Derby, H2 Java
Epictetus Antilogic Software ? ? Proprietary Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Sybase, InterBase/Firebird, H2, HSQLDB Java
HeidiSQL Ansgar Becker GPL Yes requires Wine requires Wine Yes Yes Yes Yes Embarcadero Delphi
Maatkit Baron Schwartz 2010-06-01 5247 GPL Yes Yes Yes Yes Perl
Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio Microsoft 2023-11-13[2] 19.2 Proprietary Yes No No Yes including SSAS management, and MDX, DMX, and XMLA languages .Net
ModelRight ModelRight 2016-12-?? 4.1[3][4] Proprietary Yes No No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes IBM Db2, Db2/zOS, MS Access C++
MySQL Workbench Oracle Corporation Community Ed: GPL

Standard Ed: Commercial Proprietary

Yes Yes Yes Yes C++/C# Objective-C Python (programming language)
Navicat PremiumSoft CyberTech Ltd. 2021-11-23 16[5] Proprietary Yes Yes requires Wine Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Borland Delphi Objective-C
Navicat Data Modeler PremiumSoft CyberTech Ltd. 2015-12-10 2.1 Proprietary Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Borland Delphi Objective-C
Oracle Enterprise Manager Oracle Corp. 2015-06-16 12.1.0.5 Proprietary Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes IBM Db2, Sybase, TimesTen Java
Oracle SQL Developer Oracle Corp. 2018-04-05 18.1.0.095.1630 Proprietary Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes Microsoft Access, Sybase, IBM Db2, Teradata Java
Orbada Andrzej Kaluza GPL Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Firebird, HSQL, InterBase, Derby all with JDBC driver Java
pgAdmin pgAdmin Development Team 2020-03-05 4.19[6] PostgreSQL License Yes Yes Yes Yes C++
phpLiteAdmin Dane Iracleous, Christopher Kramer and others 2019-09-05 1.9.8.2[7] GPL Yes Yes Yes No No No No No No Yes PHP
phpMyAdmin phpMyAdmin Development Team GPL Yes Yes Yes Yes Drizzle, MariaDB php
SQL Database Studio Jan Prochazka 2016-05-27 3.4.1 Proprietary Yes No No No No No Yes .NET, WPF, C#
SQLyog Webyog Softworks Pvt. Ltd. GPLv2 Yes requires Wine requires Wine Yes C++
SQuirreL SQL Colin Bell, Gerd Wagner, Rob Manning and others GPLv2 & LGPLv2 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Access, Axion Java RDBMS, Apache Derby, Daffodil DB, FileMaker (JDBC), Fujitsu Siemens SESAM/SQL, Firebird, FrontBase, HSQLDB, Hypersonic SQL, H2 (DBMS), IBM Db2, Informix, Ingres, OpenIngres, InstantDB, InterBase, Mckoi SQL Database, Mimer SQL, Netezza, Pointbase, SAPDB, Sybase, Sunopsis XML Driver, Teradata Warehouse, ThinkSQL RDBMS, Vertica Analytic Database. Java
Toad Quest Software Various Various Proprietary Yes No No Yes Yes Yes Yes IBM Db2, Sybase Embarcadero Delphi, C#.NET
Toad Data Modeler Quest Software 2020-10-19 7.3[8] Proprietary Yes No No Yes Yes Yes Yes IBM Db2, MS Access, Sybase Embarcadero Delphi
TOra Community 2017-07-04 3.2 GPL Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Teradata C++/Qt
Product Creator Latest stable release date Latest stable release License Runs on Windows Runs on Mac OS X Runs on Linux Oracle MySQL PostgreSQL MS SQL Server ODBC JDBC SQLite Other Programming language

Features

Legend

  • User Interface:
  • Create/alter table:
    • Yes - can create table, alter its definition and data, and add new rows
    • Some - can only create/alter table definition, not data
  • Browse table:
    • Yes - can browse table definition and data
    • Some - can only browse table definition
  • Multi-server support:
    • Yes - can manage from the same window/session multiple servers
    • Some - can manage from a different window/session multiple servers
  • Monitoring server:
    • Yes - includes a headless server, that runs checks and reports failures
Tools User Interface Create & Alter wizard Browse Auto Completion Syntax colored Multi server support Monitoring server
Database Table Procedure Trigger Database Table Procedure Trigger
Adminer Browser-based Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes ? ?
Altova DatabaseSpy desktop Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes ?
Database Workbench desktop Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes ?
DataGrip desktop Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No
DBeaver desktop Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
DBEdit desktop No No No No Yes Yes Yes No No Yes No ?
Epictetus desktop No Yes No No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes ? ?
Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio desktop Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No
ModelRight desktop Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes ? ?
MySQL Workbench desktop Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Some
Navicat desktop Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes ?
Navicat Data Modeler desktop No Yes No Yes No No No No Yes Yes Yes ?
Oracle Enterprise Manager Browser-based Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes ? Yes
Oracle SQL Developer desktop Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No
Orbada desktop Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No
pgAdmin Browser-based, desktop (TDI) Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Some
phpLiteAdmin Browser-based Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes ? ?
phpMyAdmin Browser-based Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
SQL Database Studio desktop Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No
SQLyog desktop Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes ? ?
SQuirreL SQL desktop ? ? ? ? Yes Yes ? ? Yes Yes Some ?
Toad desktop Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Toad Data Modeler desktop Yes Yes Yes Yes Some Some Some Some No Yes ? ?
TOra desktop No Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes ?

Features (continued)

Legend:

  • User manager:
    • Yes - user manager with support for database and schema permissions as well as for individual object (table, view, functions) permissions
    • Some - simple user manager with support for database and schema permissions
    • No - no user manager, or read-only user manager
user manager Plugin Compare Import Export Debugger Source control Spatial Visualization
Adminer Yes Yes Yes SQL script, CSV, TSV or the above in zip (as a plugin); imports of server-site file in SQL or SQL in zip, gzip or bzip2 SQL script, CSV, TSV or the above in zip, gzip, bzip2; XML (as a plugin) No Git
Altova DatabaseSpy No No Yes CSV, XML XML, XML Structure, CSV, HTML, MS Excel No ?
Database Workbench Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes[9]
DataGrip No Yes Yes Yes TXT, CSV, HTML, XML, DBF, SQL script, RTF, MS Word, MS Excel, MS Access, MS Windows Clipboard, Paradox file, WK1, WQ1, SLK, DIF, LDIF No Yes
DBeaver Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No With Eclipse plugins
DBEdit No No No No MS Excel, PDF, Text, SQL script No ?
Epictetus No Yes No No Excel No ?
ModelRight Some Yes Yes Yes - from supported databases using native interfaces, or from any ODBC source SQL; XML; DTD; Diagram as BMP, JPEG No ?
Navicat Yes No Yes Yes - TXT, CSV, DBF, HTML, MS Excel, MS Access, Paradox file, WK1, WQ1, XML, or from any ODBC source (See link for limitations[10]) Yes - TXT, CSV, HTML, XML, DBF, SQL script, RTF, MS Word, MS Excel, MS Access, MS Windows Clipboard, Paradox file, WK1, WQ1, SLK, DIF, LDIF (See link for limitations[10]) Yes No
Navicat Data Modeler No No Yes Yes - Import Database from server/ODBC Yes - Export SQL No No
MySQL Workbench Yes Yes Yes Yes - CSV, HTML, JSON, MS Excel, SQL INSERTS, Tab-separated, XML Yes - CSV, HTML, JSON, MS Excel, SQL INSERTS, Tab-separated, XML Yes No
Oracle SQL Developer Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Orbada No Yes Yes SQL script SQL script, CSV, XML, HTML, PDF, Excel, DBF, DataText No No
pgAdmin Yes Yes No CSV, Text, or binary CSV, text, HTML, XML Yes No
phpMyAdmin Yes Some Yes Yes - CSV, SQL, XML, Excel, ODS Yes - CSV, LaTeX, Excel, Word, ODS, ODT, XML, SQL, YAML, Texy!, JSON, NHibernate, PHP, PDF, MediaWiki Yes Git
SQL Database Studio Yes Yes No CSV, XML, MS Excel CSV, HTML, MS Excel, SQL INSERTS, Tab-separated, XML No No
SQLyog Yes ? Yes Yes Yes ? ?
SQL Server Management Studio Yes Yes ? Yes Yes Yes Yes[11] Yes
SQuirreL SQL ? Yes Yes Yes ? No ?
Toad Some No Yes Yes Yes Yes SVN, CVS, TFS, VSS
Toad Data Modeler No ? Yes Toad for Oracle ERD, ERWin 7.1(XML) via plugin SQL; meta data in XML; report in HTML/RTF/CSV; diagram as BMP, JPEG, PNG No ?
TOra Some No Yes Yes Yes Yes No

Features - visual design and reverse engineering

Legend:

  • Visual schema/E-R design: the ability to draw entity-relationship diagrams for the database. If missing, the following two features will also be missing
  • Reverse engineering - the ability to produce an ER diagram from a database, complete with foreign key relationships
    • Yes - supports incremental reverse engineering, preserving user modifications to the diagram and importing only changes from the database
    • Some - can only reverse engineer the entire database at once and drops any user modifications to the diagram (can't "refresh" the diagram to match the database)
  • Forward engineering - the ability to update the database schema with changes made to its entities and relationships via the ER diagram visual designer
    • Yes - can update user-selected entities
    • Some - can only update the entire database at once
Visual query builder Visual schema/model/E-R diagram design Reverse engineering Forward engineering ER diagram groupboxes
Adminer Yes Yes Yes No No
Altova DatabaseSpy Yes Yes Yes Yes ?
Database Workbench Yes Yes Yes ? Yes
DBeaver No Yes Yes No ?
DBEdit No No No No No
ModelRight No Yes Yes Yes Yes
Navicat Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Navicat Data Modeler Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
MySQL Workbench Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Oracle SQL Developer Yes Yes Yes Yes ?
Orbada No No No No No
pgAdmin Yes No No No No
phpMyAdmin Yes Yes Yes No No
SQL Database Studio Yes Yes Yes Yes No
SQL Server Management Studio ? Yes Yes ? ?
SQLyog Yes[12] Yes[13] Yes Yes ?
SQuirreL SQL Yes Yes Yes[note 1] ? No
Toad Yes Yes Yes Yes ?
Toad Data Modeler No Yes Yes Yes[note 2] ?

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ Only incremental, by manually going through each table and clicking "Add to graph".
  2. ↑ Generated SQL must be executed outside Toad Data Modeler.

References

  1. ↑ "Release 23.2.5". 2023-11-20. https://github.com/dbeaver/dbeaver/releases/tag/23.2.5. 
  2. ↑ "Download SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)". 24 May 2023. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/ssms/download-sql-server-management-studio-ssms. 
  3. ↑ "An Overview of Database Diagram Tools Available for PostgreSQL" (in en). 2019-07-05. https://severalnines.com/blog/overview-database-diagram-tools-available-postgresql. 
  4. ↑ "ModelRight Download full version trials". http://www.modelright.com/downloads.asp. 
  5. ↑ "Welcome to Navicat's Press Center - Navicat". https://www.navicat.com/en/company/press. 
  6. ↑ "pgAdmin - PostgreSQL Tools". https://www.pgadmin.org/. 
  7. ↑ "Phpliteadmin / Public / Downloads — Bitbucket". https://bitbucket.org/phpliteadmin/public/downloads. 
  8. ↑ "Toad Data Modeler 7.3 - Release Notes". https://support.quest.com/technical-documents/toad-data-modeler/7.3/release-notes. 
  9. ↑ custom system via TeamServer in Enterprise Edition
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 title= Navicat feature matrix
  11. ↑ "Source Control in SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)". 21 November 2016. https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/dataplatforminsider/2016/11/21/source-control-in-sql-server-management-studio-ssms/. 
  12. ↑ "SQLYog query builder". http://www.webyog.com/en/screenshots_sqlyog.php. 
  13. ↑ "SQLYog schema designer". http://www.webyog.com/en/screenshots_sqlyog.php. 



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