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Beekeeper Studio SQL editor 4.0 – Import. backup, restore, and bigquery

by rathboma on 10/2/23, 12:05 AM with 45 comments

• by scorxn on 10/2/23, 8:03 AM

  I use the free “community” edition daily: https://github.com/beekeeper-studio/beekeeper-studio/release...

• by ndom91 on 10/2/23, 9:50 AM

  Been using this for a year or so as my daily basic DB client. Really like it for what it is and can definitely recommend it for quick and simple DB operations.

  I put it in the same category as tableplus - its a nice simple db client when all you need to do is browse some data, edit a row or two, etc. The community edition of beekeeper, however, has less annoyances than tableplus's free version imo.

  For more advanced use-cases, it doesn't come close to dbeaver or tools like that, but it also isn't designed to imo.

  Looking forward to an (admittedly big and clunky) PR of mine to beekeeper potentially being merged that adds support for connecting to aws rds instances via iam (cli) :)

• by taffit on 10/2/23, 12:43 PM

  Biggest issues for me: Subscription based payments and (biggest issue) missing option to adjust the keyboard shortuts. So I have to adjust my workflow and muscle memory to the tool instead of the other way around. For the rest it is a very nice looking client with a good amount of features (for my use case) and hats off to the developers.

• by code_biologist on 10/2/23, 5:20 AM

  “The SQL Editor and Database Manager Of Your Dreams

  A [cross platform] modern, easy to use, and good looking SQL client for MySQL, Postgres, SQLite, SQL Server, and more.”

• by ShadowBanThis01 on 10/2/23, 5:37 AM

  I've been using this on Macs as my DB manager on a new project (MariaDB at the moment) and have been pretty happy with it.

  I use SQL Editor to do the design and to generate DB-creation scripts, and once the DB is up and running I maintain it with Beekeeper while I code in my IDEs.

• by reinhardt1053 on 10/2/23, 9:21 AM

  It looks a lot like Tableplus [1] Who copied whom?

  [1] https://tableplus.com/

• by skeptrune on 10/2/23, 7:51 AM

  Our team has migrated from DBeaver to Beekeeper recently and it has been a pleasure.

  My major ask would be that it saves my connection by default.

• by yesbut on 10/2/23, 6:53 AM

  Does anyone know how this compares to DBeaver?