Best Database Client Software in 2026
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48 database client software ranked on what their makers publish — plans and prices, free tiers, platforms and the facts on their own pages.
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5 Oct 2026last checked
Input list Database Client Software 23 channels on this page · 121 of 184 spec lines stated by the makers
Ch Tool Free planPaid fromDeploymentDatabase supportSSH tunnelingData editingVisual query builderResult export formats Spec sheet Score
26 DB Browser for SQLite Free planYesPaid fromnot statedDeploymentdesktopDatabase supportSQLite, SQLCipherSSH tunnelingnot statedData editingYesVisual query buildernot statedResult export formatsCSV, JSON 5/8spec lines stated 6.1
27 dotConnect Free planYesPaid fromnot statedDeploymentnot statedDatabase supportSQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite, DB2, InterBase, Microsoft Access, FirebirdSSH tunnelingYesData editingYesVisual query builderYesResult export formatsnot stated 5/8spec lines stated 6.1
28 JXplorer Free planYesPaid fromnot statedDeploymentdesktopDatabase supportLDAP, DSML, LDIFSSH tunnelingnot statedData editingYesVisual query builderYesResult export formatsLDIF 6/8spec lines stated 6.1
29 mycli Free planYesPaid fromnot statedDeploymentdesktopDatabase supportMySQL, MariaDB, Percona, TiDB, Apache DorisSSH tunnelingYesData editingYesVisual query buildernot statedResult export formatsCSV, TSV, table, default 6/8spec lines stated 6.1
30 SQuirreL SQL Client Free planYesPaid fromnot statedDeploymentdesktopDatabase supportJDBC-compatible databases; DB2; Derby; Firebird; H2; Informix; Microsoft SQL Server; MySQL; Oracle; Netezza; PostgreSQL; SybaseSSH tunnelingnot statedData editingYesVisual query builderYesResult export formatsMicrosoft Excel 6/8spec lines stated 6.1
31 Aqua Data Studio Free planNoPaid fromnot statedDeploymentdesktopDatabase supportOracle Database, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, Sybase, PostgreSQL, IBM Db2, SAP ASE, MariaDB, Teradata, Netezza, Informix, SQLite, MongoDB, Cassandra, Amazon Redshift, Snowflake, Google BigQuery, Microsoft Azure SQL Database, Amazon Aurora, Oracle Cloud Database, Apache Hive, Cloudera Impala, Greenplum, Vertica, Exasol, Amazon AthenaSSH tunnelingYesData editingYesVisual query builderYesResult export formatsCSV, Excel, XML, HTML, PDF 7/8spec lines stated 6.0
32 dbFront Free planYesPaid fromnot statedDeploymentbothDatabase supportMySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, OracleSSH tunnelingYesData editingYesVisual query buildernot statedResult export formatsCSV, Excel, PDF, DOC, RTF, TSV, XLS 6/8spec lines stated 6.0
33 RazorSQL Free planNoPaid fromnot statedDeploymentdesktopDatabase supportAmazon Athena, Amazon Aurora, BigQuery, Cassandra, CockroachDB, Couchbase, Databricks, DB2, Derby, Druid, DuckDB, DynamoDB, Firebird, Greenplum, H2, HBase, Hive, HSQLDB, Informix, Ingres, InterBase, IRIS, JavaDB, kdb+, Keyspaces, MariaDB, MonetDB, MongoDB, MySQL, Netezza, OpenBase, Oracle, Paradox, Pervasive, PostgreSQL, Redshift, Salesforce, SAP HANA, SimpleDB, SnowflakeSSH tunnelingYesData editingYesVisual query builderYesResult export formatsDelimited File, SQL Insert Statements, HTML, XML, XLSX, XLS, Text 7/8spec lines stated 6.0
34 SQLyog Free planNoPaid fromnot statedDeploymentdesktopDatabase supportMySQL, MariaDBSSH tunnelingYesData editingYesVisual query builderYesResult export formatsSQL, CSV, HTML, XML, Excel 7/8spec lines stated 6.0
35 Execute Query Free planYesPaid fromnot statedDeploymentdesktopDatabase supportnot statedSSH tunnelingYesData editingYesVisual query buildernot statedResult export formatsnot stated 4/8spec lines stated 5.9
36 WinSQL Free planYesPaid fromnot statedDeploymentdesktopDatabase supportAny database with an available ODBC or JDBC driver; examples include Oracle, Sybase, DB2, Microsoft SQL Server, Informix, Microsoft Access, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Salesforce, and Snowflake.SSH tunnelingnot statedData editingYesVisual query builderYesResult export formatsCSV, TXT, Microsoft Excel, HTML 6/8spec lines stated 5.9
37 A5:SQL Mk-2 Free planYesPaid fromnot statedDeploymentdesktopDatabase supportOracle, Microsoft SQL Server, IBM DB2, PostgreSQL, MySQL, InterBase/Firebird, SQLite, Microsoft Access, and other OLE DB- or ODBC-compatible databasesSSH tunnelingYesData editingYesVisual query builderYesResult export formatsCSV, XML Spreadsheet, INSERT statements, Excel 7/8spec lines stated 5.8
38 Adminer Free planYesPaid fromnot statedDeploymentwebDatabase supportMySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, CockroachDB, SQLite, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle; additional plugin drivers include Elasticsearch, SimpleDB, MongoDB, Redis, Firebird, ClickHouse, IGDB and IMAPSSH tunnelingnot statedData editingYesVisual query buildernot statedResult export formatsSQL, CSV 5/8spec lines stated 5.7
39 CloudBeaver Free planNoPaid fromnot statedDeploymentbothDatabase supportApache Kyuubi, ClickHouse, Db2 for IBM i, Db2 LUW, DuckDB, Firebird, H2, MariaDB, MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, SQLite, Trino, Databend, LibSQL, Athena, Aurora DSQL, Azure Cosmos DB, Azure SQL Server, Cassandra, CockroachDB, Couchbase, CouchDB, CloudSQL, CSV, Databricks, DocumentDB, DynamoDB, Elasticsearch, Firestore, Google BigQuery, Google Cloud Bigtable, Google Cloud Spanner, HANA, InfluxDB, Informix, InterSystems IRIS, JSON, KafkaSSH tunnelingYesData editingYesVisual query builderYesResult export formatsCSV, DBUnit, JSON, Markdown, Source Code, SQL, TXT, XML, Parquet, XLSX, HTML 7/8spec lines stated 5.7
40 ExtendsClass SQLite Browser Free planYesPaid fromnot statedDeploymentwebDatabase supportSQLiteSSH tunnelingnot statedData editingYesVisual query buildernot statedResult export formatsCSV, SQLi 5/8spec lines stated 5.7
41 Sequel Ace Free planYesPaid fromnot statedDeploymentdesktopDatabase supportMySQL, MariaDBSSH tunnelingYesData editingYesVisual query buildernot statedResult export formatsJSON, CSV, SQL, XML 6/8spec lines stated 5.7
42 Altova DatabaseSpy Free planNoPaid fromnot statedDeploymentnot statedDatabase supportnot statedSSH tunnelingnot statedData editingnot statedVisual query buildernot statedResult export formatsnot stated 1/8spec lines stated 5.6
43 Database Browser Free planYesPaid fromnot statedDeploymentwebDatabase supportMySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, Google Cloud SQL, Google BigQuery, Google Cloud Firestore, Google Cloud Datastore, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Amazon DynamoDB, AWS Redshift, SnowflakeSSH tunnelingnot statedData editingYesVisual query builderYesResult export formatsnot stated 5/8spec lines stated 5.6
44 Postico 2 Free planNoPaid fromnot statedDeploymentdesktopDatabase supportPostgreSQL, Amazon Redshift, Greenplum, CockroachDBSSH tunnelingYesData editingYesVisual query buildernot statedResult export formatsTSV, TSV with headers, CSV, CSV with headers, SQL Insert Statements 6/8spec lines stated 5.6
45 SQLPad Free planYesPaid fromnot statedDeploymentwebDatabase supportPostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server, ClickHouse, Crate, Vertica, Trino, Presto, SAP HANA, Cassandra, Google BigQuery, SQLite, TiDB, Apache Pinot, Apache Drill, ODBCSSH tunnelingnot statedData editingnot statedVisual query buildernot statedResult export formatsCSV, JSON, XLSX 4/8spec lines stated 5.6
46 SQLTools Free planYesPaid fromnot statedDeploymentdesktopDatabase supportOracleSSH tunnelingnot statedData editingnot statedVisual query buildernot statedResult export formatstext, html, sql 4/8spec lines stated 5.6
47 PSequel Free planYesPaid fromnot statedDeploymentdesktopDatabase supportPostgreSQLSSH tunnelingnot statedData editingnot statedVisual query buildernot statedResult export formatsnot stated 3/8spec lines stated 5.5
48 VFront Free planYesPaid fromnot statedDeploymentwebDatabase supportMySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLiteSSH tunnelingnot statedData editingnot statedVisual query buildernot statedResult export formatsnot stated 3/8spec lines stated 5.5
Compare all 23 in a table
| # | Tool | Score | Free plan | Free plan | Paid from | Deployment | Database support |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 | DB Browser for SQLite | 6.1 | No | Yes | — | desktop | SQLite, SQLCipher |
| 27 | dotConnect | 6.1 | No | Yes | — | — | SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite, DB2, InterBase, Microsoft Access, Firebird |
| 28 | JXplorer | 6.1 | No | Yes | — | desktop | LDAP, DSML, LDIF |
| 29 | mycli | 6.1 | No | Yes | — | desktop | MySQL, MariaDB, Percona, TiDB, Apache Doris |
| 30 | SQuirreL SQL Client | 6.1 | No | Yes | — | desktop | JDBC-compatible databases; DB2; Derby; Firebird; H2; Informix; Microsoft SQL Server; MySQL; Oracle; Netezza; PostgreSQL; Sybase |
| 31 | Aqua Data Studio | 6.0 | No | No | — | desktop | Oracle Database, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, Sybase, PostgreSQL, IBM Db2, SAP ASE, MariaDB, Teradata, Netezza, Informix, SQLite, MongoDB, Cassandra, Amazon Redshift, Snowflake, Google BigQuery, Microsoft Azure SQL Database, Amazon Aurora, Oracle Cloud Database, Apache Hive, Cloudera Impala, Greenplum, Vertica, Exasol, Amazon Athena |
| 32 | dbFront | 6.0 | No | Yes | — | both | MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle |
| 33 | RazorSQL | 6.0 | No | No | — | desktop | Amazon Athena, Amazon Aurora, BigQuery, Cassandra, CockroachDB, Couchbase, Databricks, DB2, Derby, Druid, DuckDB, DynamoDB, Firebird, Greenplum, H2, HBase, Hive, HSQLDB, Informix, Ingres, InterBase, IRIS, JavaDB, kdb+, Keyspaces, MariaDB, MonetDB, MongoDB, MySQL, Netezza, OpenBase, Oracle, Paradox, Pervasive, PostgreSQL, Redshift, Salesforce, SAP HANA, SimpleDB, Snowflake |
| 34 | SQLyog | 6.0 | No | No | — | desktop | MySQL, MariaDB |
| 35 | Execute Query | 5.9 | No | Yes | — | desktop | — |
| 36 | WinSQL | 5.9 | No | Yes | — | desktop | Any database with an available ODBC or JDBC driver; examples include Oracle, Sybase, DB2, Microsoft SQL Server, Informix, Microsoft Access, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Salesforce, and Snowflake. |
| 37 | A5:SQL Mk-2 | 5.8 | No | Yes | — | desktop | Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, IBM DB2, PostgreSQL, MySQL, InterBase/Firebird, SQLite, Microsoft Access, and other OLE DB- or ODBC-compatible databases |
| 38 | Adminer | 5.7 | No | Yes | — | web | MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, CockroachDB, SQLite, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle; additional plugin drivers include Elasticsearch, SimpleDB, MongoDB, Redis, Firebird, ClickHouse, IGDB and IMAP |
| 39 | CloudBeaver | 5.7 | No | No | — | both | Apache Kyuubi, ClickHouse, Db2 for IBM i, Db2 LUW, DuckDB, Firebird, H2, MariaDB, MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, SQLite, Trino, Databend, LibSQL, Athena, Aurora DSQL, Azure Cosmos DB, Azure SQL Server, Cassandra, CockroachDB, Couchbase, CouchDB, CloudSQL, CSV, Databricks, DocumentDB, DynamoDB, Elasticsearch, Firestore, Google BigQuery, Google Cloud Bigtable, Google Cloud Spanner, HANA, InfluxDB, Informix, InterSystems IRIS, JSON, Kafka |
| 40 | ExtendsClass SQLite Browser | 5.7 | No | Yes | — | web | SQLite |
| 41 | Sequel Ace | 5.7 | No | Yes | — | desktop | MySQL, MariaDB |
| 42 | Altova DatabaseSpy | 5.6 | No | No | — | — | — |
| 43 | Database Browser | 5.6 | No | Yes | — | web | MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, Google Cloud SQL, Google BigQuery, Google Cloud Firestore, Google Cloud Datastore, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Amazon DynamoDB, AWS Redshift, Snowflake |
| 44 | Postico 2 | 5.6 | No | No | — | desktop | PostgreSQL, Amazon Redshift, Greenplum, CockroachDB |
| 45 | SQLPad | 5.6 | No | Yes | — | web | PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server, ClickHouse, Crate, Vertica, Trino, Presto, SAP HANA, Cassandra, Google BigQuery, SQLite, TiDB, Apache Pinot, Apache Drill, ODBC |
| 46 | SQLTools | 5.6 | No | Yes | — | desktop | Oracle |
| 47 | PSequel | 5.5 | No | Yes | — | desktop | PostgreSQL |
| 48 | VFront | 5.5 | No | Yes | — | web | MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite |
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