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.