MySQL Workbench vs. Navicat

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
MySQL Workbench
Score 6.9 out of 10
N/A
MySQL Workbench is a unified visual tool for database architects, developers, and DBAs. MySQL Workbench provides data modeling, SQL development, and comprehensive administration tools for server configuration, user administration, and backup. MySQL Workbench is available on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. It is available free through its Community edition, and an Enterprise edition is available for a commercial license as well, supported by Oracle.
$0
Navicat
Score 8.6 out of 10
N/A
Navicat Premium is a multi-connection database development and administration tool which can simultaneously connect 7 databases (MySQL, MariaDB, MongoDB, SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL, and SQLite) from a single application. Compatible with cloud databases like Amazon RDS, Amazon Aurora, Amazon Redshift, Microsoft Azure, Oracle Cloud, Google Cloud, Alibaba Cloud, Tencent Cloud, MongoDB Atlas and Huawei Cloud, developerws can quickly and easily build, manage and maintain databases.N/A
Pricing
MySQL WorkbenchNavicat
Editions & Modules
Community Edition
$0
Enterprise Edition
licensed through Oracle
No answers on this topic
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
MySQL WorkbenchNavicat
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
MySQL WorkbenchNavicat
Considered Both Products
MySQL Workbench

No answer on this topic

Navicat
Chose Navicat
Some of the free database clients are not bad at all. In fact, I have known a few developers who swear by them. However, I don't share that view. As a professional, I want a lot of features that you just can't find in free products, or at least, all in the same product.
Chose Navicat
Navicat is superior in allowing us to save complex queries and share them with other users. It is also better at administering the database. It also allows us to easily transfer data and structure to a test database server. This saves a ton of time when working on our dev …
Features
MySQL WorkbenchNavicat
Database Development
Comparison of Database Development features of Product A and Product B
MySQL Workbench
9.3
2 Ratings
10% above category average
Navicat
8.2
5 Ratings
3% below category average
Schema maintenance8.52 Ratings9.25 Ratings
Database change management10.01 Ratings8.75 Ratings
Version control tools00 Ratings7.03 Ratings
Test data generation00 Ratings8.04 Ratings
Performance optimization tools00 Ratings8.04 Ratings
Database Administration
Comparison of Database Administration features of Product A and Product B
MySQL Workbench
8.2
2 Ratings
2% above category average
Navicat
8.2
5 Ratings
2% above category average
User management9.02 Ratings9.25 Ratings
Database security8.52 Ratings8.05 Ratings
Database status reporting7.52 Ratings7.54 Ratings
Change management8.01 Ratings8.25 Ratings
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User Ratings
MySQL WorkbenchNavicat
Likelihood to Recommend
7.4
(3 ratings)
9.0
(5 ratings)
Usability
8.1
(3 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
7.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
MySQL WorkbenchNavicat
Likelihood to Recommend
Oracle
It is good software when we have to connect the database of the remote server but it is not as good as phpMyAdmin. When local server is concerned, phpMyAdmin is way better because it has more cleaner UI than Workbench. Workbench is preferred only because phpMyAdmin does not support the connection of remote servers.
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PremiumSoft
Navicat Premium is a very well-rounded tool with a reasonable licensing fee given its feature set. It is primarily suited for technical resources who must work with a variety of different database systems, but who may not be database or command line tool wizards. However, its query building and job batch scheduling feature support end-users as they build competency, and it continues to hold its value even as users outgrow their training wheels. Navicat is probably not so appropriate for DBAs and others for whom database development and management is already a career path; these folks have their preferred toolsets, both vendor-supplied and homegrown, and they might consider the additional licensing cost to outweigh the value they'd personally get out of Navicat.
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Pros
Oracle
  • Readily available too for quick and easy SQL queries
  • Maintains upgrades
  • Works across multiple OS platforms
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PremiumSoft
  • Really helpful auto-completion.
  • Can connect to multiple (different) database types simultaneously.
  • Can generate some really impressive charts.
  • The new data dictionary tool is great!
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Cons
Oracle
  • There are a lot of menus, some of them aren't needed or users who only need to send queries. I had to watch a videos on youtube to learn how to use workbench. It would be great to have some videos inside software (or links to videos on youtube)
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PremiumSoft
  • Remote deploy databases
  • Clone databases
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Usability
Oracle
MySQL Workbench is useful for specifically remote databases. Remote databases generally does not have any UI and we have to connect the server via SSH and on CLI, we write the queries and it shows the data, which is quite tiering and more prone to make mistakes whereas MySQL Workbench provides cleaner way to connect and provides lot of tools, so that we do not have to write queries all the time.
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PremiumSoft
There is quite a lot to learn because Navicat Premium is a very comprehensive database management and development tool, but it's User Interface is intuitive enough to pick up fairly quickly. I have also referred to the documentation on occasion, and can attest that it is quite good. I feel that it works best on a large monitor, but that's fairly common for this sort of software.
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Support Rating
Oracle
No answers on this topic
PremiumSoft
Very robust online community and well as excellent support staff. Easy to follow video tutorials. Detailed sample configurations are provided with guided walk-throughs via remote classroom instruction. Very fast response from support staff. No internal hires were necessary for support as vendor support staff fully met all technical expertise. 24/7 incident reporting and tracking is great.
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Alternatives Considered
Oracle
It's like comparing a VW to an performance car like a Ferrari. If you need the performance, bells and whistles you'll want PhpStorm. If you just need to get from one place to another, MySQL Workbench will do just fine.
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PremiumSoft
Navicat allows for easier querying of data while still allowing for visualization and modeling
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Return on Investment
Oracle
  • It provides good features and saves the time.
  • When we use remote server, we can connect without using ssh etc. so saves the time and easy to understand.
  • Do not have to write the queries to check the schema, so saves the time.
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PremiumSoft
  • Assisting new employees with understanding our DB
  • Reduce debugging and testing time with being able to visualize data/queries
  • Allowing non-SQL users to execute queries to get real-time data.
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