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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    DBeaver

    Score8.6 out of 10
    N/ADBeaver offers comprehensive data management tools designed to help teams explore, process, and administrate SQL, NoSQL, and cloud data sources. DBeaver is available commercially as DBeaver PRO and for free as DBeaver Community.

    $11

    per month per user

    IBM Terraform

    Score8.7 out of 10
    N/AIBM Terraform (formerly Hashicorp Terraform) is a cloud infrastructure automation tool used to create, change, and improve production infrastructure, and it allows infrastructure to be expressed as code. It is available Open Source, and via Cloud and Self-Hosted editions.

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    DBeaverIBM Terraform
    Editions & Modules
    Lite Edition Subscription
    $11
    per month per user
    Enterprise Edition Subscription
    $25
    per month per user
    Lite Edition License
    $110
    per year per user
    Enterprise Edition License
    $250
    per year per user
    Ultimate Edition License
    $500
    per year per user
    CloudBeaver Enterprise
    $1,000
    per year per 5 users
    DBeaver Team Edition
    $1,280
    per year per 1 administrator and 2 developers
    Open Source
    $0
    Team & Governance
    $20/user
    per user/per month
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    Pricing Offerings
    DBeaverIBM Terraform
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsDiscounts are available for multi-user licenses.—
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    Features
    DBeaverIBM Terraform
    Database Development
    Comparison of Database Development features of DBeaver and IBM Terraform
    Feature
    DBeaver
    7.3
    11 Ratings
    15% below category average
    IBM Terraform
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    Ratings
    Version control tools6.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    Test data generation6.05 Ratings00 Ratings
    Performance optimization tools7.34 Ratings00 Ratings
    Schema maintenance8.49 Ratings00 Ratings
    Database change management9.07 Ratings00 Ratings
    Database Administration
    Comparison of Database Administration features of DBeaver and IBM Terraform
    Feature
    DBeaver
    5.5
    9 Ratings
    37% below category average
    IBM Terraform
    -
    Ratings
    User management8.06 Ratings00 Ratings
    Database security5.06 Ratings00 Ratings
    Database status reporting4.07 Ratings00 Ratings
    Change management5.06 Ratings00 Ratings
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    Sequel Pro
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    HashiCorp Vagrant
    Score9 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Oracle Autonomous Database
    Score8.5 out of 10
    HashiCorp Vagrant
    Score9 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Oracle Autonomous Database
    Score8.5 out of 10
    AWS CloudFormation
    Score8.2 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    DBeaverIBM Terraform
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (10 ratings)
    7.8
    (33 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    Usability
    8.5
    (2 ratings)
    8.8
    (8 ratings)
    Performance
    -
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    9.4
    (3 ratings)
    Support Rating
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.0
    (6 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
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    9.2
    (3 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    DBeaverIBM Terraform
    Likelihood to Recommend
    DBeaver
    If you are connecting to Snowflake and want to query from your laptop, I find that this is much easier to use than Snowflake's IDE. It allows us as a business intelligence team to more easily connect to our servers, and code with much less hassle. It would be less appropriate if you are only on an on-premises SQL server, in that case, I would just use SSMS.
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    IBM
    Anything that needs to be repeated en masse. Terraform is great at taking a template and have it be repeated across your estate. You can dynamically change the assets they're generating depending on certain variables. Which means though templated assets will all be similar, they're allowed to have unique properties about them. For example flattening JSON into tabular data and ensuring the flattening code is unique to the file's schema.
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    Pros
    DBeaver
    • Identify types of DB connections by color code: development, testing and production.
    • Predictive typing, it is incredibly accurate and saves me a lot of time.
    • Jump between different simultaneous DB connections.
    • Navigate through the schema object tree.
    • Provide all the tools I need in one window.
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    IBM
    • Terraform is cloud agnostic. Just select the suitable provider for the cloud and it will do the job.
    • Templating is possible to make the Terraform templates reusable.
    • Variables can be created to make the templates generic so that it can be reused for different environments or resources.
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    Cons
    DBeaver
    • Schema editing is not very intuitive. Editing a single column forces you into multiple tab windows when trying to change something simple like a column name.
    • Sorting and filtering in data is nice, but buried in long right-click menus.
    • Some things are definitely non-standard UI for a Windows application, so it might be hard for die-hard Windows fans to get used to.
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    IBM
    • The language itself is a bit unusual and this makes it hard for new users to get onboarded into the codebase. While it's improving with later releases, basic concepts like "map an array of options into a set of configurations" or "apply this logic if a variable is specified" are possible but unnecessarily cumbersome.
    • The 'Terraform Plan' operation could be substantially more sophisticated. There are many situations where a Terraform file could never work but successfully passes the 'plan' phase only to fail during the 'apply' phase.
    • Environment migrations could be smoother. Renaming/refactoring files is a challenge because of the need to use 'Terraform mv' commands, etc.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    DBeaver
    No answers on this topic
    IBM
    Still the best provisioning tool out there and good support from the community as well in terms of shared knowledge
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    Usability
    DBeaver
    It's perfectly easy to use. Not super new and shiny with lots of accessibility tailored tools, but does the job
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    IBM
    The syntax itself is pretty straightforward. The documentation is well-maintained & easy to follow. Most cloud providers, even smaller ones, maintain official provider libraries, making discovery & learning a breeze. Some, like GCP, even provide high-level libraries on top of their own more primitive provider, making building complex infra much more manageable. The language itself is cloud-agnostic, so you can literally manage resources from multiple providers in a single Terraform repo.
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    Performance
    DBeaver
    No answers on this topic
    IBM
    Terraform's performance is quite amazing when it comes to deployment of resources in AWS. Of course, the deployment times depend on various parameters like the number of resources to deploy and different regions to deploy. Terraform cannot control that. The only minor drawback probably shows up when a terraform job is terminated mid way. Then in many cases, time-consuming manual cleanup is required.
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    Support Rating
    DBeaver
    Not a lot of users have DBeaver so fewer resources are available online to help you if you have any issues. When I was trying to figure out how to create my own ER diagrams, it was a little tough to find resources
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    IBM
    I have yet to have an opportunity to reach out directly to HashiCorp for support on Terraform. However, I have spent a great deal of time considering their documentation as I use the tool. This opinion is based solely on that. I find the Terraform documentation to have great breadth but lacking in depth in many areas. I appreciate that all of the tool's resources have an entry in the docs but often the examples are lacking. Often, the examples provided are very basic and prompt additional exploration. Also, the links in the documentation often link back to the same page where one might expect to be linked to a different source with additional information.
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    Implementation Rating
    DBeaver
    No answers on this topic
    IBM
    Implementation is straight forward. Never had issues as the team is already very familiar with Terraform installation from previous projects and roles
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    Alternatives Considered
    DBeaver
    MySQL workbench from MySQL only supports MySQL databases and it only provides basic functionality. On top of that, the user experience could be quite confusing for first-time users. SSMS from SQL server doesn't support inline editing nicely. The view for inline editing and view data is different, making it uncomfortable to use. All in all, DBeaver is the best tool when you manage a lot of databases with different types.
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    IBM
    Terraform is the solid leader in the space. It allows you to do more then just provisioning within a pre-existing servers. It is more extensible and has more providers available than it competitors. It is also open source and more adopted by the community then some of the other solutions that are available in the market place.
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    Return on Investment
    DBeaver
    • Positive Ability to manage DBeaver and query ad-hoc quickly
    • By having the queries saved it has saved developer time and thereby increased the ROI on the investment on the tool
    • This has made firefighting quicker and freed up resources for more development work.
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    IBM
    • we are able to deploy our infrastructure in a couple of ours in an automated and repeatable way, before this could take weeks if the work was done manually and was a lot of error prone.
    • having the state file, you can see a diff of what things have changed manually out side of Terraform which is a huge plus
    • if state file gets corrupted, it is very hard to debug or restore it without an impact or spending hours ..
    • writing big scale code can be very challenging and hard to be efficient so it's usable by the whole team
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