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    dbForge Studio (Edge)

    Score8 out of 10
    N/AdbForge Studio is provided by Devart and is a universal front-end client for database management, administration and development. Devart's GUI tool provides utilities to compare, synchronize, and back up databases (e.g. MySQL, Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, etc.) with scheduling, and includes the possibility to analyze and report MySQL tables data. For example, dbForge Studio for MySQL works with any MariaDB database servers, and supports all MariaDB objects types. This solution enables users…

    $9.95

    per month

    Xamarin

    Score6 out of 10
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    Pricing
    dbForge Studio (Edge)Xamarin
    Editions & Modules
    Standard (subcription)
    $9.95
    per month
    Professional (subscription)
    $19.95
    per month
    Enterprise (subscription)
    $29.95
    per month
    Standard (subcription)
    $99.95
    per year
    Professional (subscription)
    $179.95
    per year
    Standard
    $199.95
    Enterprise (subscription)
    $229.95
    per year
    Professional
    $349.95
    Enterprise
    $449.95
    Xamarin
    Free
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    dbForge Studio (Edge)Xamarin
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    dbForge Studio (Edge)Xamarin
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    Devart
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    dbForge Studio (Edge)Xamarin
    Database Development
    Comparison of Database Development features of dbForge Studio (Edge) and Xamarin
    Feature
    dbForge Studio (Edge)
    8.4
    2 Ratings
    1% below category average
    Xamarin
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    Version control tools8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Test data generation7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Performance optimization tools9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Schema maintenance9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Database change management9.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Database Administration
    Comparison of Database Administration features of dbForge Studio (Edge) and Xamarin
    Feature
    dbForge Studio (Edge)
    7.0
    1 Ratings
    14% below category average
    Xamarin
    -
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    User management6.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Database security6.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Database status reporting7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Change management9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    dbForge Studio (Edge)Xamarin
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.8
    (15 ratings)
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    Likelihood to Renew
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    Usability
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    Support Rating
    8.0
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    Implementation Rating
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    User Testimonials
    dbForge Studio (Edge)Xamarin
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Devart
    This tool is useful for small and large IT departments and associated data analysts that perform direct database functions such as DBA tasks or extracting/importing data. Non-technical staff members would not benefit from this tool as much as the functions are detailed and technical. However, automation engineers will find this tool very open for automation, and can generate the scripting code for any of its functions.
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    Microsoft
    If you are required to develop applications that are cross-platformed, Xamarin is a great tool to use. It will help save time and effort from your development team to be able to build applications seamlessly for android, IOS, Windows, and web on a single platform instead of requiring multiple tools to get the job done.
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    Pros
    Devart
    • Connection manager (we use it through ssh tunnels) works effortlessly.
    • Great sync tools for both database schemas and data.
    • Storing code snippets to be used when needed.
    • Nice code suggestions while typing queries.
    • Usually does very well with storing your session and opening all of your sql tabs when opening the apps next time.
    • Does very well when executing large sql files (without opening the files into the application that is).
    • Pretty good debugging help when a problem occurs in executing a query or a files with multiple queries.
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    • Xamarin allows you to write cross platform code. This allows companies to build apps more quickly by writing less code. Having code abstracted and reused across multiple platforms allows for more testing and less issues overall.
    • The ability to use Visual Studio is a huge plus. Visual Studio is one of the best IDE's available and being able to write cross platforms apps while in a great IDE makes everything less painful.
    • Xamarin is now free with a large company backing. This means that bugs on the platform get fixed more quickly and there is a large community of developers.
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    Cons
    Devart
    • The ability to parameterize searches more would be advantageous. For example, being able to specify to only look for certain columns, certain data type changes, etc.
    • The output reports from dbForge are very plain and could contain more detail, and perhaps be structured more like a pivot table form Excel
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    Microsoft
    • Forms - not 100% there. Still needs work but is production ready.
    • iOS - sometimes errors can be hard to understand, if they even show up.
    • Insights - Xamarin offers their own crash analytics software. However, it's not perfect and sometimes doesn't pick up crashes.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Devart
    No answers on this topic
    Microsoft
    Xamarin has been great for developing different projects efficiently and effectively. It's nice to reuse the core business logic across different platforms so that there are less to maintain and little replications are needed. The biggest benefit is that C# programmers do not have to learn a different language to do mobile development.
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    Usability
    Devart
    dbForge Studio (Edge) has a great UI and it's versatile, but it still has some glitches. Its multiple database support makes it possible to stick with only one UI to handle different RDBM systems, even though you have to redefine user credentials for each new connection (no copying/cloning feature for database connections). The Edit View and diagramming features also could be improved.
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    Microsoft
    If you are required to develop applications that are cross-platformed, Xamarin is a great tool to use. It will help save time and efforts from your development team to be able to build applications seamlessly for android, IOS, windows, and web on a single platform instead of requiring multiple tools to get the job done
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    Support Rating
    Devart
    Although experience here is limited, as only one question has been asked and answered promptly, the registration and licensing process was very smooth and professional. There are forums online that discuss dbForge issues, as well as a Facts and Questions section on dbForge's website, so product support does seem to exist if needed.
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    Microsoft
    I never had to contact support for any help. Most of the problems we ran into, we were able to identify and use peer support through blogs and other internet sources to resolve the problems. There are plenty of sources online which provide tutorials, discuss problems, etc. Example: StackOverflow
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    Implementation Rating
    Devart
    No answers on this topic
    Microsoft
    Just with any programming tasks, have a plan first. Design out the system, spend time to build it correctly the first time and have plenty of testing and user acceptance opportunities. Xamarin was easy to implement for a C# programmer. However, you need to do tutorials to realize the platform's capabilities.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Devart
    Before choosing dbForge Studio I evaluated at least a dozen tools, especially on the Visual Query Builder function. For now, I have identified only one product that has a better Visual Query Builder than dbForge Studio. This other product also manages UNIONs, while dbStudio still doesn't do it visually. However, the better alternative product is enormously slower in operations and less feature-rich than DbForge Studio
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    Microsoft
    Xamarin runs natively on MacOS, and the debugger and other integration and auto-complete tools are far better than Eclipse for C# .NET. It also carries much of the plugin/add-on capabilities that are so desirable on Atom. Eclipse is a better for generalized software development, provided a developer is comfortable switching between the IDE the command line for certain parts of their workflow, like building, package management, or debugging. But for C# .NET development on MacOS specifically, Xamarin is the best product I've used for the job.
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    Return on Investment
    Devart
    • Saved a TON of time when looking at massive amounts of parent/child data by allowing us to just use the master-detail browser.
    • Very little training time needed for employees that are already used to using SQL Management Studio. This is a proper Windows UI application.
    • Very cost effective to purchase the standard edition for every employee that needs it, but the free edition does most of what they need too!
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    Microsoft
    • Saves development time and deliver fast.
    • Allows inhouse developers build both Android and iOS application without switching languages.
    • Allows use coding in C# in Visual studio IDE from which we can code in different languages. We don't need multiple IDEs installed
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    Screenshot of Code CompletionScreenshot of Schema CompareScreenshot of Database DiagramScreenshot of Data ExportScreenshot of Database design & developmentScreenshot of Visual query building