About DBeaver
Overview
DBeaver is a free universal database tool for developers and database administrators.
- Usability is the main goal of this project, the program UI is carefully designed and implemented.
- It is freeware.
- It is multiplatform.
- It is based on opensource framework and allows to write various extensions (plugins).
- It supports any database which has a JDBC driver.
- It may handle any external datasource which may or may not have a JDBC driver.
- There is a set of plugins for certain databases (MySQL in version 1.0) and different database management utilities (ERD view in version 1.0).
Supported (tested) databases:
- MySQL
- Oracle
- PostgreSQL
- IBM DB2
- Microsoft SQL Server
- Sybase
- ODBC
- Java DB (Derby)
- Firebird (Interbase)
- HSQLDB
- SQLite
- Mimer
- H2
- IBM Informix
- SAP MAX DB
- Cache
- Any JDBC compliant data source
Supported OSes:
- Windows (2000/XP/2003/Vista/7)
- Linux
- Mac OS
- AIX
- Solaris
General features:
- Database metadata browse
- Metadata editor (tables, columns, keys, indexes)
- SQL statements/scripts execution
- SQL highlighting (specific for each database engine)
- Autocompletion and metadata hyperlinks in SQL editor
- Result set/table edit
- BLOB/CLOB support (view and edit modes)
- Scrollable resultsets
- Data (tables, query results) export
- Transactions management
- Database objects (tables, columns, constraints, procedures) search
- ER diagrams
- Database object bookmarks
- SQL scripts management
- Projects (connections, SQL scripts and bookmarks)
MySQL plugin features:
- Enum/Set datatypes
- Procedures/triggers view
- Metadata DDL view
- Session management
- Users management
- Catalogs management
- Advanced metadata editor
Other Benefits:
- DBeaver consumes much less memory than other popular similar applications (SQuirreL, DBVisualizer).
- Database metadata is loaded on demand and there is no long-running "metadata caching" procedure at connect time.
- ResultSet viewer (grid) is very fast and consumes very little memory.
- All remote database operations work in non-blocking mode so DBeaver does not hang if the database server does not respond or if there is network issue.
License
DBeaver is freeware. You can use it for any purpose with no limitations.
This software is provided "as is" without express or implied warranty.
A specific freeware license and source code license has not yet been chosen.
Anyway, binary distribution itself is absolutely freeware.
Contacts
Technical support - support@jkiss.org
Technical support, feature suggestions and any other questions - serge@jkiss.org