Compare the Top Database Clients as of September 2026

What are Database Clients?

Database clients are tools or applications used to connect to a database server and interact with its data. They allow users to perform operations such as querying, updating, inserting, and deleting records through a structured language. These clients often offer intuitive interfaces or command-line options to simplify database management tasks. They are essential for managing data efficiently, catering to both small-scale and enterprise-level needs. By providing a bridge between users and the database, they streamline data access and administration. Compare and read user reviews of the best Database Clients currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.

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    Retool

    Retool

    Retool

    Retool is the AI-native enterprise app development platform where teams build and ship production-ready apps — at AI speed, with enterprise governance built in. Describe what you need and get a working app, import React-based apps from Lovable, Replit, or Claude Code, or connect your AI agent via MCP. However your team builds, every app lands in Retool with RBAC, SSO, audit logging, and your existing permissions already in place. Retool connects to databases, APIs, LLMs, and external tools out of the box. Teams can build AI agents, dashboards, workflows, and full-stack apps — with a visual editor for speed and direct code access for precision. Trusted by over 10,000 organizations including Amazon, Stripe, DoorDash, and OpenAI to get AI-built apps safely to production.
    Starting Price: $10 per user per month
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    DBeaver Community

    DBeaver Community

    DBeaver Corp.

    DBeaver Community is a free, open-source database management tool recommended for personal projects. Manage and explore SQL databases like MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Apache Family, and more. Connect to popular SQL databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server, Oracle, SQLite, etc.) SQL editor to create queries with syntax highlighting and autocompletion AI assistant in SQL for building queries through natural language SSL/TLS support for encrypted connections SSH tunneling for secure remote access Proxy configuration to work with databases behind a corporate firewall Session Manager to terminate, disconnect, view and search for sessions Lock Manager to monitor and manage database locks Entity Relationship Diagrams to interactively explore and visualize database structure Query manager to view all executed queries, including execution time, duration, affected rows, and errors. Data editor to view, edit, and filter data
    Starting Price: $11/month
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    SQLGate

    SQLGate

    CHEQUER

    SQLGate is a simple but powerful IDE for multiple SQL databases. As an integrated database management and development solution, it simplifies the construction and operation of databases. It is customized for seven different databases that make up 83.2% of the DBMS market. These include Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, MariaDB, Tibero, and PostgreSQL. SQLGate makes it easier and quicker to deal with databases holding large amounts of data. Multiple Languages available: Korean, English, Spanish, French, Japanese, etc..
    Starting Price: Free
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    Oracle SQL Developer
    Oracle SQL Developer is a free, integrated development environment that simplifies the development and management of Oracle Database in both traditional and Cloud deployments. SQL Developer offers complete end-to-end development of your PL/SQL applications, a worksheet for running queries and scripts, a DBA console for managing the database, a reports interface, a complete data modeling solution, and a migration platform for moving your 3rd party databases to Oracle. Run your sql and sql scripts, manage users, create and edit objects, import data to new or existing tables, diagnose performance issues, visualize your schemas, and much more. The power of your favorite desktop tool, in your browser. Available with Oracle REST Data Services for your on-premises instances. Migrate Oracle On-Premises to Oracle Cloud. Click, browse, and managed the contents of your Oracle Database.
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    DronaHQ

    DronaHQ

    DronaHQ

    DronaHQ is a composite no-code and AI platform for building internal apps, voice workflows, and agentic workflows. The platform includes DronaHQ Apps, which helps teams create production-grade internal tools with built-in security, permissions, and reliability. Users can build applications through vibe coding, low-code development, prompts, and connected data sources. DronaHQ Agents helps teams create an agentic workforce that connects to enterprise systems and data to execute operational work. The platform is designed to support enterprise teams that need app development, AI agents, integrations, governance, and workflow automation in one environment. Built for speed and flexibility, DronaHQ helps organizations turn business needs into secure apps and operational agents without relying only on traditional software development.
    Starting Price: $0/month
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    Aqua Data Studio

    Aqua Data Studio

    AquaFold, an Idera, Inc. company

    Aqua Data Studio is a multiple-platform, integrated development environment (IDE) for data. It provides benefits to a variety of data-centric roles, allowing them to manage a wide range of data sources. Aqua Data Studio provides scalable, cross-platform data management, supporting IT and data-centric specialists, including developers, database administrators, as well as data analysts, data modelers, and data architects. Simplifies tedious tasks involving SQL queries, data, result sets, schema, data models, files, instances, servers, as well as automation. Aqua Data Studio can be installed on the three popular operating systems: Microsoft Windows, Apple macOS, and Linux. The graphical user interface can display the nine of the most widely spoken languages: English, Spanish, French, German, Korean, Portuguese, Japanese, and Chinese. Aqua Data Studio supports over 40 of the most popular data source platforms, including relational, NoSQL, as well as managed cloud data source
    Starting Price: $499 per user per year
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    ClusterControl

    ClusterControl

    Severalnines

    ClusterControl is a hybrid, multi-cloud database ops orchestration platform for MongoDB, Elasticsearch, Redis, TimescaleDB, SQL Server on Linux, Galera Cluster, PostgreSQL, and MySQL in on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments. It handles full-lifecycle operations, from deployment to failover, backup and more. With its full suite of databases, ops features and ability to be deployed in any environment, it enables organizations to implement the Sovereign DBaaS concept. ClusterControl is perfect for organizations that need to reliably run large-scale, open-source database operations but don't want to be limited by traditional DBaaS providers in environment choice, open-source license stability, and DB access.
    Starting Price: €250/node/month
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    JackDB

    JackDB

    JackDB

    Write and execute queries in a fully interactive SQL editor. JackDB has everything you'd want in a database client, including: syntax highlighting, code formatting, and intelligent autocompletion. Snippets allow your most useful SQL queries to be saved and shared. Simply write and save any query in JackDB, and share the snippet publicly with your team. Whenever anyone updates a snippet, everyone gets access to its latest version. Security is our highest priority at JackDB. Roles are a very convenient and secure way to restrict database access to authorized users and provision new users with access to data sources. Explore everything in your database, not just tables and views. View your indexes, schemas, and other important system details such as tablespaces and user sessions.
    Starting Price: $49 per user per month
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    Navicat for PostgreSQL
    Navicat for PostgreSQL is an easy-to-use graphical tool for PostgreSQL database development. From writing simple SQL queries to developing complex databases, Navicat for PostgreSQL is designed to accommodate a wide range of users, from PostgreSQL beginners to seasoned developers. Connect to local/remote PostgreSQL servers and compatible with cloud databases like Amazon Redshift, Amazon Aurora, Amazon RDS, Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure, and all PostgreSQL database objects. Navicat provides users with our Navicat Cloud service. Sync your connection settings and queries to the cloud so you can get real-time queries and connections anytime and anywhere. With Navicat Cloud, you can leverage every minute of your day to maximize your productivity. Navicat allows you to establish secure SSH sessions through SSH Tunneling, ensuring strong authentication and secure encryption between two hosts. The authentication method can use a password or a public/private key pair.
    Starting Price: $17.99 per month
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    dbForge Studio for SQL Server
    dbForge Studio for SQL Server is a comprehensive platform with an intuitive graphical user interface and robust functionality that enables users to handle a variety of database-related tasks both on-premises and in the cloud. Key Features: SQL Coding Assistance AI Assistant Integration Source Control Index Manager Unit Test Table Designer Database Designer T-SQL Debugger Query Profiler Schema Compare Data Compare Data Generator Documenter Query Builder Data Export and Data Import Database Administration Server Event Profiler Data Editor SQL Server Reporting Master-Detail Browser Pivot Table Copy Database Monitor Find Invalid Objects DevOps Automation Optimized system resources consumption when preparing the Quick Info and Code Completion hints Support for macOS & Linux via CrossOver You can always find the latest version of the product on the official Devart website.
    Starting Price: $249.95
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    QStudio

    QStudio

    TimeStored

    QStudio is a free, modern SQL editor supporting over 30 databases, including MySQL, PostgreSQL, and DuckDB. It offers features such as server browsing for easy viewing of tables, variables, functions, and configuration settings; SQL syntax highlighting; code completion; the ability to query servers directly from the editor; and built-in charts for data visualization. QStudio runs on Windows, Mac, and Linux, providing particularly good support for kdb+, Parquet, PRQL, and DuckDB. Additional functionalities include data pivoting similar to Excel, exporting data to Excel or CSV, and AI-powered tools like Text2SQL for generating queries from plain English, Explain-My-Query for code walkthroughs, and Explain-My-Error for debugging assistance. Simply send the query you want and select the chart type to draw a chart. Send queries straight from within the editor to any of your servers. All data structures are handled perfectly.
    Starting Price: Free
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    DBHawk

    DBHawk

    Datasparc

    Using DBHawk, our customers were able to comply with GDPR, HIPAA, SOX, GLBA, and other regulations and were able to implement SOD. Self-Service BI & Ad-Hoc Reporting Tool with feature to define Data Access Policy, Connect to multiple Data sources, Build Powerful SQL Charts and data Dashboards. DBHawk SQL editor is an advanced editor that allows users to build, edit, and run database queries with a web-based interface. DBHawk Query Builder is supported with all major databases such as Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Greenplum, MySQL, DB2, Amazon Redshift, Hive, Amazon Athena. Database SQL tasks and batch job automation with a web-based centralized tool. Secure access to SQL, NoSQL and Cloud databases with our all-in-one data platform. Trusted by our customers to protect and access their data. Centralized Security, Auditing and insights about your user’s activities.
    Starting Price: $99.00/month/user
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    pgAdmin

    pgAdmin

    pgAdmin

    pgAdmin is a free software project released under the PostgreSQL/Artistic licence. The software is available in source and binary format from the PostgreSQL mirror network. Because compiling from source requires technical knowledge, we recommend installing binary packages whenever possible. pgAdmin is the most popular and feature rich Open Source administration and development platform for PostgreSQL, the most advanced Open Source database in the world. pgAdmin is a management tool for PostgreSQL and derivative relational databases such as EnterpriseDB's EDB Advanced Server. It may be run either as a web or desktop application. As pgAdmin is a web application, it can only interact with the local filesystem in ways that are allowed by modern web browsers. This limits what is possible for security; essentially files can only be "downloaded" or "uploaded" (through a form).
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    Toad

    Toad

    Quest

    Toad Software is a database management toolset from Quest that database developers, database administrators and data analysts use to manage both relational and non-relational databases using SQL. Take a proactive approach to database management. Re-focus your teams on more strategic initiatives, and move your business forward in today’s data-driven economy. Toad solutions enable you to maximize your investment in data technology by empowering data professionals to automate processes, minimize risks and cut project delivery timelines by nearly half. Lower the total cost of ownership for new applications by reducing the impact of inefficient code on productivity, future development cycles, performance and availability. See why millions of users trust Toad for their most critical systems and data environments. It’s time to gain the competitive edge. Work smarter and meet the demands of today’s database environments.
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    phpMyAdmin

    phpMyAdmin

    phpMyAdmin

    phpMyAdmin is a free software tool written in PHP, intended to handle the administration of MySQL over the Web. phpMyAdmin supports a wide range of operations on MySQL and MariaDB. Frequently used operations (managing databases, tables, columns, relations, indexes, users, permissions, etc) can be performed via the user interface, while you still have the ability to directly execute any SQL statement. phpMyAdmin comes with a wide range of documentation and users are welcome to update our wiki pages to share ideas and howtos for various operations. The phpMyAdmin team will try to help you if you face any problem; you can use a variety of support channels to get help. To ease usage to a wide range of people, phpMyAdmin is being translated into 72 languages and supports both LTR and RTL languages. Browse and drop databases, tables, views, fields and indexes. Create, copy, drop, rename and alter databases, tables, fields and indexes.
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    Toad Edge
    If yours is one of the majority of organizations migrating your existing commercial database to open sources, such as MySQL or PostgreSQL, or if you’re building new in-house applications on open-source database management systems (OSDBMS), then you know that commercial tooling for these databases falls short. What if you could save money by implementing OSDBMS and ramp up quickly by working with a familiar toolset? You can with Toad Edge®. It’s a lightweight, reliable desktop toolset that simplifies development and management tasks for open-source databases. Using Toad for MySQL and PostgreSQL management makes it easier to master new database platforms quickly. If you’re taking on MariaDB, Amazon Redshift, or EDB Postgres Advanced Server, Toad Edge will simplify your work on those platforms as well. Toad Edge supports coding, editing, schema compare and sync, and DevOps CI processes, so you can manage your open-source databases easily and confidently.
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    SQLNotebook

    SQLNotebook

    TimeStored

    SQL Notebooks allow developers to write Markdown combined with SQL to produce live HTML5 reports. They offer a lightning-fast, modern HTML5 interface where data sources are queried in real time. Users can create beautiful, live-updating SQL notebooks, easily source control the code, and take static snapshots to share with colleagues who don't have database access. SQL Notebooks are available in both QStudio Version 4, a desktop SQL client based on editing markdown files locally, and Pulse Version 3, which serves as a shared team server accessible via a web address. To help users get started, a showcase of example notebooks has been created in collaboration with leading community members; these examples are snapshotted versions with static data, and the source markdown and most of the data to recreate them are available on GitHub.
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