Comparison of database administration tools

The following tables compare general and technical information for a number of available database administration tools. Please see individual product articles for further information. This article is neither all-inclusive nor necessarily up to date.

Systems listed on a light purple background are no longer in active development.

General

Product Creator Latest stable release date Latest stable release License
Runs on
Windows
Runs on
macOS
Runs on
Linux
 Other Programming language
DatabaseSpy Altova 2019-04-02[±] 2019r3[1] Proprietary Yes No No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes IBM Db2, Sybase, MS Access C++
Database Workbench Upscene Productions 2024-12-16 6.6.0 Proprietary Yes needs Wine needs Wine Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes InterBase, Firebird, NexusDB, MariaDB Delphi
DataGrip JetBrains 2023-08-17 2023.2.1 Proprietary Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Sybase, IBM Db2, H2, Hypersonic SQL, Amazon Redshift, Apache Derby, Redis, MongoDB, Snowflake, Exasol, BigQuery, Cassandra, ClickHouse, CockroachDB, Couchbase Java
DBeaver Serge Rider 2025-04-06 25.0.2[2] Apache License Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes EXASOL, IBM Db2, Apache Derby, Firebird, Mimer SQL, all with JDBC driver Java
DBEdit Jef Van Den Ouweland 2012-05-10 2.4.6 GPL Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes IBM Db2, HSQLDB, Apache Derby, H2 Java
dbForge Edge Devart 2025-04-18 5.1 Proprietary Yes needs CrossOver needs Wine or CrossOver Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes[note 1] No No MariaDB, Galera Cluster, Percona, HeatWave MySQL, Google Cloud, Oracle Cloud, Amazon RDS, Amazon Aurora, Amazon Redshift, Alibaba Cloud, SQL Azure, Tencent Cloud, Heroku, Aiven Cloud, SkySQL, DigitalOcean Managed Database, Kamatera Performance Cloud .NET
HeidiSQL Ansgar Becker 2022-08-13[±] 12.1[3] GPL Yes needs Wine needs Wine Yes Yes Yes Yes Delphi
Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio Microsoft 2024-07-09[4] 20.2 Proprietary Yes No No Yes including SSAS management, and MDX, DMX, XMLA languages .NET
MySQL Workbench Oracle Corporation 2020-09-12[±] 8.0.22[5] Community Ed: GPL

Standard Ed: Commercial Proprietary

Yes Yes Yes Yes C++–C# Objective-C Python
Navicat PremiumSoft CyberTech Ltd. 2021-11-23 16[6] Proprietary Yes Yes needs Wine Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Delphi Objective-C
Navicat Data Modeler PremiumSoft CyberTech Ltd. 2015-12-10 2.1 Proprietary Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Delphi Objective-C
Oracle Enterprise Manager Oracle Corp. 2015-06-16 12.1.0.5 Proprietary Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes IBM Db2, Sybase, TimesTen Java
Oracle SQL Developer Oracle Corp. 2018-04-05 18.1.0.095.1630 Proprietary Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes Microsoft Access, Sybase, IBM Db2, Teradata Java
pgAdmin pgAdmin Development Team 2025-04-03; 35 days ago 9.2[7] Edit this on Wikidata PostgreSQL License Yes Yes Yes Yes C++
phpLiteAdmin Dane Iracleous, Christopher Kramer, others 2019-09-05 1.9.8.2[8] GPL Yes Yes Yes No No No No No No Yes PHP
phpMyAdmin phpMyAdmin Development Team

2025-01-21; 3 months ago[±]

5.2.2[9] Edit this on Wikidata

GPL Yes Yes Yes Yes Drizzle, MariaDB php
SQL Database Studio Jan Prochazka 2016-05-27 3.4.1 Proprietary Yes No No No No No Yes .NET, WPF, C#
SQLyog Webyog Softworks Pvt. Ltd. 2024-07-23[±] 13.3.0[10] GPLv2 Yes needs Wine needs Wine Yes C++
SQuirreL SQL Colin Bell, Gerd Wagner, Rob Manning, others 2023-06-04 [±] 4.6.0[11] GPLv2 & LGPLv2 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Access, Axion Java RDBMS, Apache Derby, Daffodil DB, FileMaker (JDBC), Fujitsu Siemens SESAM/SQL, Firebird, FrontBase, HSQLDB, Hypersonic SQL, H2 (DBMS), IBM Db2, Informix, Ingres, OpenIngres, InstantDB, InterBase, Mckoi SQL Database, Mimer SQL, Netezza, Pointbase, SAPDB, Sybase, Sunopsis XML Driver, Teradata Warehouse, ThinkSQL RDBMS, Vertica Analytic Database. Java
Toad Quest Software Various Various Proprietary Yes No No Yes Yes Yes Yes IBM Db2, Sybase Delphi, C#.NET
Toad Data Modeler Quest Software 2020-10-19 7.3[12] Proprietary Yes No No Yes Yes Yes Yes IBM Db2, MS Access, Sybase Delphi
TOra Community 2017-07-04 3.2 GPL Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Teradata C++–Qt
Product Creator Latest stable release date Latest stable release License
Runs on
Windows
Runs on
macOS
Runs on
Linux
 Other Programming language

Features

Legend

  • User Interface:
  • Create/alter table:
    • Yes - can create table, alter its definition and data, and add new rows
    • Some - can only create/alter table definition, not data
  • Browse table:
    • Yes - can browse table definition and data
    • Some - can only browse table definition
  • Multi-server support:
    • Yes - can manage from the same window/session multiple servers
    • Some - can manage from a different window/session multiple servers
  • Monitoring server:
    • Yes - includes a headless server, that runs checks and reports failures
Tools User Interface Create & Alter wizard Browse Auto Completion Syntax colored Multi server support Monitoring server
Database Table Procedure Trigger Database Table Procedure Trigger
Adminer Browser-based Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes ? ?
Altova DatabaseSpy desktop Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes ?
Database Workbench desktop Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes ?
DataGrip desktop Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No
DBeaver desktop Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
DBEdit desktop No No No No Yes Yes Yes No No Yes No ?
dbForge desktop Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Some
Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio desktop Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No
MySQL Workbench desktop Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Some
Navicat desktop Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes ?
Navicat Data Modeler desktop No Yes No Yes No No No No Yes Yes Yes ?
Oracle Enterprise Manager Browser-based Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes ? Yes
Oracle SQL Developer desktop Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No
pgAdmin Browser-based, desktop (TDI) Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Some
phpLiteAdmin Browser-based Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes ? ?
phpMyAdmin Browser-based Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
SQL Database Studio desktop Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No
SQLyog desktop Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes ? ?
SQuirreL SQL desktop ? ? ? ? Yes Yes ? ? Yes Yes Some ?
Toad desktop Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Toad Data Modeler desktop Yes Yes Yes Yes Some Some Some Some No Yes ? ?
TOra desktop No Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes ?

Features (continued)

Legend:

  • User manager:
    • Yes - user manager with support for database and schema permissions as well as for individual object (table, view, functions) permissions
    • Some - simple user manager with support for database and schema permissions
    • No - no user manager, or read-only user manager
user manager Plugin Compare Import Export Debugger Source control Spatial Visualization
Adminer Yes Yes Yes SQL script, CSV, TSV or the above in zip (as a plugin); imports of server-site file in SQL or SQL in zip, gzip or bzip2 SQL script, CSV, TSV or the above in zip, gzip, bzip2; XML (as a plugin) No Git
Altova DatabaseSpy No No Yes CSV, XML XML, XML Structure, CSV, HTML, MS Excel No ?
Database Workbench Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes[13]
DataGrip No Yes Yes Yes TXT, CSV, HTML, XML, DBF, SQL script, RTF, MS Word, MS Excel, MS Access, MS Windows Clipboard, Paradox file, WK1, WQ1, SLK, DIF, LDIF No Yes
DBeaver Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No With Eclipse plugins
DBEdit No No No No MS Excel, PDF, Text, SQL script No ?
dbForge Yes No Yes Yes - TXT, CSV, XML, XLS, XLSX, DBF, JSON, Google Sheets, MS Access, or from any ODBC source Yes - TXT, CSV, XML, XLS, XLSX, DBF, JSON, Google Sheets, MS Access, PDF, HTML, RTF, SQL script, or from any ODBC source Yes Yes[note 2] No
Navicat Yes No Yes Yes - TXT, CSV, DBF, HTML, MS Excel, MS Access, Paradox file, WK1, WQ1, XML, or from any ODBC source (See link for limitations[14]) Yes - TXT, CSV, HTML, XML, DBF, SQL script, RTF, MS Word, MS Excel, MS Access, MS Windows Clipboard, Paradox file, WK1, WQ1, SLK, DIF, LDIF (See link for limitations[14]) Yes No
Navicat Data Modeler No No Yes Yes - Import Database from server/ODBC Yes - Export SQL No No
MySQL Workbench Yes Yes Yes Yes - CSV, HTML, JSON, MS Excel, SQL INSERTS, Tab-separated, XML Yes - CSV, HTML, JSON, MS Excel, SQL INSERTS, Tab-separated, XML Yes No
Oracle SQL Developer Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
pgAdmin Yes Yes No CSV, Text, or binary CSV, text, HTML, XML Yes No
phpMyAdmin Yes Some Yes Yes - CSV, SQL, XML, Excel, ODS Yes - CSV, LaTeX, Excel, Word, ODS, ODT, XML, SQL, YAML, Texy!, JSON, NHibernate, PHP, PDF, MediaWiki Yes Git
SQL Database Studio Yes Yes No CSV, XML, MS Excel CSV, HTML, MS Excel, SQL INSERTS, Tab-separated, XML No No
SQLyog Yes ? Yes Yes Yes ? ?
SQL Server Management Studio Yes Yes ? Yes Yes Yes Yes[15] Yes
SQuirreL SQL ? Yes Yes Yes ? No ?
Toad Some No Yes Yes Yes Yes SVN, CVS, TFS, VSS
Toad Data Modeler No ? Yes Toad for Oracle ERD, ERWin 7.1(XML) via plugin SQL; meta data in XML; report in HTML/RTF/CSV; diagram as BMP, JPEG, PNG No ?
TOra Some No Yes Yes Yes Yes No

Features - visual design and reverse engineering

Legend:

  • Visual schema/E-R design: the ability to draw entity-relationship diagrams for the database. If missing, the following two features will also be missing
  • Reverse engineering - the ability to produce an ER diagram from a database, complete with foreign key relationships
    • Yes - supports incremental reverse engineering, preserving user modifications to the diagram and importing only changes from the database
    • Some - can only reverse engineer the entire database at once and drops any user modifications to the diagram (can't "refresh" the diagram to match the database)
  • Forward engineering - the ability to update the database schema with changes made to its entities and relationships via the ER diagram visual designer
    • Yes - can update user-selected entities
    • Some - can only update the entire database at once
Visual query builder Visual schema/model/E-R diagram design Reverse engineering Forward engineering ER diagram groupboxes
Adminer Yes Yes Yes No No
Altova DatabaseSpy Yes Yes Yes Yes ?
Database Workbench Yes Yes Yes ? Yes
DBeaver No Yes Yes No ?
DBEdit No No No No No
dbForge Yes Yes Yes Yes No
Navicat Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Navicat Data Modeler Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
MySQL Workbench Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Oracle SQL Developer Yes Yes Yes Yes ?
pgAdmin Yes No No No No
phpMyAdmin Yes Yes Yes No No
SQL Database Studio Yes Yes Yes Yes No
SQL Server Management Studio ? Yes Yes ? ?
SQLyog Yes[16] Yes[17] Yes Yes ?
SQuirreL SQL Yes Yes Yes[note 3] ? No
Toad Yes Yes Yes Yes ?
Toad Data Modeler No Yes Yes Yes[note 4] ?

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Only for Data Import/Export features.
  2. ^ Only for SQL Server and MySQL/MariaDB.
  3. ^ Only incremental, by manually going through each table and clicking "Add to graph".
  4. ^ Generated SQL must be executed outside Toad Data Modeler.

References

  1. ^ "What's New in DatabaseSpy". altova.com. Retrieved 2019-07-24.
  2. ^ "Release 25.0.2". GitHub. 2025-04-06. Retrieved 2025-04-14.
  3. ^ "Releases - HeidiSQL/HeidiSQL". github.com. Retrieved 2022-08-26.
  4. ^ "Download SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)". 9 July 2024.
  5. ^ "Releases - mysql/mysql-workbench". github.com. Retrieved 2020-11-19.
  6. ^ "Welcome to Navicat's Press Center - Navicat". www.navicat.com. Retrieved 2022-04-17.
  7. ^ "Release 9.2". 3 April 2025. Retrieved 24 April 2025.
  8. ^ "Phpliteadmin / Public / Downloads — Bitbucket".
  9. ^ "phpMyAdmin 5.2.2". 21 January 2025. Retrieved 21 January 2025.
  10. ^ Team, Webyog (2024-07-23). "New Release – SQLyog 13.3.0". Webyog. Retrieved 2024-11-29.
  11. ^ "SQuirrel SQL Client - Browse/1-stable". sourceforge.net. Retrieved 2023-11-25.
  12. ^ "Toad Data Modeler 7.3 - Release Notes". support.quest.com. Retrieved 2022-04-17.
  13. ^ custom system via TeamServer in Enterprise Edition
  14. ^ a b title= Navicat feature matrix
  15. ^ "Source Control in SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)". 21 November 2016.
  16. ^ "SQLYog query builder". Archived from the original on 2010-10-26. Retrieved 2008-05-29.
  17. ^ "SQLYog schema designer". Archived from the original on 2010-10-26. Retrieved 2008-05-29.
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