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DBeaver

Overview

What is DBeaver?

DBeaver 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.

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Popular Features

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  • Database change management (5)
    9.1
    91%
  • Schema maintenance (9)
    8.8
    88%
  • Database status reporting (6)
    8.4
    84%
  • User management (5)
    7.9
    79%
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Pricing

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Lite Edition Subscription

$11

On Premise
per month per user

Enterprise Edition Subscription

$25

On Premise
per month per user

Lite Edition License

$110

On Premise
per year per user

Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee
For the latest information on pricing, visithttps://dbeaver.com/buy

Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Starting price (does not include set up fee)

  • $11 per month per user
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Features

Database Development

A range of tools to help database developers produce problem-free code

8.1
Avg 8.5

Database Administration

Tools to help database administrators manage and maintain databases in optimal conditions

8.3
Avg 8.6
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Product Details

What is DBeaver?

DBeaver is a universal database management tool, able to support SQL (MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, and IBM DB2, Sybase, etc.) and NoSQL databases (MongoDB, Couchbase, Redis, Cassandra, etc.), as well as cloud databases (AWS Redshift, Google BigQuery, Snowflake, etc.).

Connection to various data sources

  • Choice of database driver from the variety of supported types. The list of drivers includes drivers for relational, document-oriented, key-value, time-series, and other databases.
  • Support of user-defined connection types and creation of custom drivers an the Driver Manager
  • Configuration of standard (host, port, user credentials) as well as advanced connection properties:
  • SSH tunnel
  • SOCKS proxy
  • Shell commands to be executed before/after actual database connection
  • Bootstrap SQL queries executing in the database session immediately after connecting

Data viewer and editor

  • Multiple data views to fit the variety of users’ needs, for example display of image contents (gif, png, jpeg, bmp) as an images
  • Editing of data inline and in a dedicated space
  • Navigation among data
  • Custom filters for table contents or query results, including filters based on cell values
  • Results ordering by column
  • Data export with all applied filters and orderings
  • Generation of SQL statements based on selected rows
  • Basic statistics for selected columns

Mock-Data Generator

The user can generate random data (or “mock" data) for tables. And this data should look like the real data. Enterprise edition includes basic and advanced data generators. Including (but not limited to):

  • Numbers
  • Random strings
  • Names
  • Addresses
  • Credit cards
  • Domains and IP addresses
  • Custom regular expressions
  • Flexible numeric generators

SQL editor

  • Organization of scripts into folders and reassignment of database connections for particular scripts
  • SQL syntax highlighting determined by the database associated with a script
  • Support for different sets of reserved keywords and system functions for different databases
  • Import and export of scripts

Visual Query Builder

  • Construct complex SQL queries without actual knowledge of SQL
  • Make table joins/filtering/ordering visually
  • Open existing SQL queries in visual mode, edit and save them
  • Execute a visually constructed query at any moment and get results on the screen
  • Analyze complex SQL queries visually

Metadata browser

  • A tree of database connections with their metadata structures down to the lowest level: tables, views, columns, indexes, procedures, triggers, storage entities (tablespaces, partitions), and security entities (users, roles)
  • Ability to modify most metadata entities, depending on the database driver capabilities
  • Display of database objects` DDL and generation of standard SQL92 DDL according to object structure for some databases
  • Ability to edit/rename/delete connections and most database objects
  • Global and local filters, ability to filter database objects by name

Data transfer

  • Export of data to a file or to another database table with the option to create the destination table if it does not exist
  • Supported file formats: CSV, HTML, XML, JSON, XLS, XLSX
  • Import data directly from CSV file into database table. Setup columns mapping and data types in convenient wizards
  • Save data transfer configurations as tasks and run them in one click
  • Schedule data transfer tasks for later/recurrent execution

ER diagrams

  • Automatically generated ER diagrams for a database/schema (with all tables) or for a single table (with all referenced/referencing tables)
  • Customization of columns visibility
  • Export of diagrams to the formats: GIF, PNG, BMP, GraphML

Data and metadata search

  • Full-text data search against all chosen tables/views with search results shown as filtered tables/views
  • Metadata search among rows in database system tables
  • Ability to set an exact object name or a search mask

Database structure compare

  • Ability to compare several database objects of any type: tables, schemas, entire databases, etc.
  • Comparison results can be presented as: HTML, DDL alter scripts, Diff diagram, Liquibase changesets
  • Database structure synchronization can be performed


While DBeaver offers a community edition at no cost, users of the Enterprise Edition have an access to the special online support system. They can write a ticket with question, bug or improvement and track it from the profile. The vendor states it usually takes no more than one working day to answer questions, and just a few days to fix bugs reported by the users.


DBeaver Features

Database Development Features

  • Supported: Version control tools
  • Supported: Test data generation
  • Supported: Database change management

Database Administration Features

  • Supported: User management
  • Supported: Database security
  • Supported: Database status reporting
  • Supported: Change management

DBeaver Video

This demo video describes the main features of DBeaver -- 0:05 Connections 01:07 Cloud Explorer 02:08 Data Editor 04:04 Grid Colorization 05:36 Data Highlighting 07:04 Data Visualization 08:09 Spatial data 09:05 Value Panel 11:53 Calc & Group Panels 13:06 SQL Editor 16:4...
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DBeaver Technical Details

Deployment TypesOn-premise
Operating SystemsWindows, Linux, Mac
Mobile ApplicationNo

Frequently Asked Questions

DBeaver 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.

DBeaver starts at $11.

DbVisualizer, DataGrip, and Navicat are common alternatives for DBeaver.

Reviewers rate Database change management and Change management highest, with a score of 9.1.

The most common users of DBeaver are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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Gustavo Du Mortier | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) developers should take a look at DBeaver to see how a real management studio application should be. In DBeaver you can tell that the developers really think about the way DBAs and database developers use database management tools. With SSMS, Microsoft tries to continue evolving an old and cumbersome application that does not seem to improve with each new version.
Jeremy Pierce, MBA | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We found that sharing scripts and generating DDLs from Snowflake's IDE was a bit too much of a chore. Because of this, we began looking for alternate products. We found DBeaver, a free community tool, and tried it out. We've found that it is very intuitive and easy to use, I would recommend it.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Aaron Smith | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
dbForge Studio has a more intuitive UI for die-hard Windows users. It's also easier to use sorting and filtering in their grids. However, that one lacked the script generation and schema editing tools our development team needed to use on an almost daily basis.

Valentina had the features they needed, but the UI was just not palatable for them to use.
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