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Re:Show HN: Beekeeper Studio – open-source, cross-platform S... by zenexer on Thursday May 07, 2020 @02:53AM (#23100410)
Very cool! I’ve been looking for a decent cross-platform SQL client for a while, so I can’t wait to try this out tomorrow.

In case anyone is curious, here’s what I’ve tried so far:

- DataGrip: bulky, slow, bugs never get fixed, non-FOSS

- Azure Data Studio: great interface, but no MySQL or SQLite support

- phpMyAdmin: clumsy, lacking in features, requires a web server—I’m really not the target demographic for this one

- CLI clients plus a decent text editor: what I always end up falling back to; daily driver at the moment

Re:Show HN: Beekeeper Studio – open-source, cross-platform S... by jmngomes on Thursday May 07, 2020 @04:49AM (#23101035)
DBeaver is great as a mature cross platform sql editor, and packs a lot of db design and management tools: https://dbeaver.io
Re:Show HN: Beekeeper Studio – open-source, cross-platform S... by dunefox on Thursday May 07, 2020 @12:01PM (#23104504)
I used it for a bit and I find it lacks in the text editing capabilities.
Re:Show HN: Beekeeper Studio – open-source, cross-platform S... by shock on Thursday May 07, 2020 @12:36PM (#23104915)
Your comment would have been useful if you elaborated on what text editing capabilities DBeaver is currently lacking.
Re:Show HN: Beekeeper Studio – open-source, cross-platform S... by dunefox on Thursday May 07, 2020 @01:07PM (#23105355)
Multiple cursors, jumping around in the text without the mouse, etc.
Re:Show HN: Beekeeper Studio – open-source, cross-platform S... by Lapland on Thursday May 07, 2020 @07:05AM (#23101670)
TablePlus is my favorite one after trying most of those https://tableplus.com/
Re:Show HN: Beekeeper Studio – open-source, cross-platform S... by heliodor on Thursday May 07, 2020 @09:43AM (#23102847)
Once they publish the docs for how to build plugins, TablePlus is going to be the obvious choice. I can't wait for my database browser to have charting!
Re:Show HN: Beekeeper Studio – open-source, cross-platform S... by Lapland on Thursday May 07, 2020 @02:48PM (#23106661)
Did not know that was in the works, sounds awesome :)
Re:Show HN: Beekeeper Studio – open-source, cross-platform S... by heliodor on Saturday May 09, 2020 @10:39AM (#23125061)
They have a few plugins available on GitHub so you can copy and adapt and intuit some of the API but I did not see docs available a few weeks ago when I looked.
Re:Show HN: Beekeeper Studio – open-source, cross-platform S... by db579 on Friday May 08, 2020 @03:49PM (#23118709)
I also think TablePlus is the best option by far right now, although sadly not open source - would be great if they'd consider Open Sourcing at least the code base licences have already expired passed for.

This looks like a great contender though. Would be useful to have a few more filter options.

Re:Show HN: Beekeeper Studio – open-source, cross-platform S... by jacek on Thursday May 07, 2020 @03:05AM (#23100489)
I would also recommend DBeaver[1]. Cross-platform with really nice features.

[1] https://dbeaver.io/

Re:Show HN: Beekeeper Studio – open-source, cross-platform S... by rathboma on Thursday May 07, 2020 @08:42AM (#23102284)
I've used DBeaver in the past, but still felt compelled to make Beekeeper Studio. DBeaver is great for a DBA, but can you imagine giving it to someone learning SQL for the first time?
Re:Show HN: Beekeeper Studio – open-source, cross-platform S... by phoyd on Thursday May 07, 2020 @04:52AM (#23101052)
I second this recommendation. DBeaver is great and will work with almost every RDBMS you'll ever encounter.
Re:Show HN: Beekeeper Studio – open-source, cross-platform S... by Semaphor on Thursday May 07, 2020 @03:44AM (#23100700)
> - DataGrip: bulky, slow, bugs never get fixed, non-FOSS

Bugs linger indeed and non-FOSS is obvious.

If by bulky, you mean start-up time (or resource usage which I don’t really care about), I agree, same as with all other JetBrains tools.

But slow? Everything is so fast, much faster than SQL Manager Studio or Heidi SQL (which I just tried). Autocompletion for fields, tables, SPs, everything is lightning fast and always more context appropriate than any other solution I tried.

I just checked Azure Data Studio as well and while completion was as quick, it wasn’t as context-appropriate and query results took far longer to display.

Re:Show HN: Beekeeper Studio – open-source, cross-platform S... by btreecat on Thursday May 07, 2020 @09:38AM (#23102811)
I notice you had not tried squirrleSQL

http://www.squirrelsql.org/

OP's client looks way nicer for sure

Re:Show HN: Beekeeper Studio – open-source, cross-platform S... by isuckatcoding on Thursday May 07, 2020 @07:59AM (#23102005)
So basically Datagrip?