Altova DatabaseSpy vs SQL Assistant

Altova DatabaseSpy

Figure	Altova DatabaseSpy	SQL Assistant
Price from	—	—
Free plan	—	—
Free trial	Yes	Yes
Open source	—	—
Windows	Yes	Yes
API	—	Yes
Plans published	4	6
Spec score · Database Documentation Tools	8.3 (#7)	7.6 (#20)
AI features	Altova AI features include generating SQL, explaining statements, and offering help with execution errors; the editions page describes the Altova AI subscription as optional.	The product's integrated AI provides database design suggestions, query generation, and troubleshooting.
Database support	The product page lists support for 15 database types, including Firebird, DB2, MariaDB, Azure SQL, SQL Server, MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, SQLite, and Teradata.	The product page lists support for Oracle, SQL Server, Azure SQL, DB2, MariaDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redshift, Netezza, Teradata, Greenplum, MongoDB, SQLite, Sybase ASE, and SQL Anywhere, among others.
Founded	1992	1997
Headquarters	Beverly, Massachusetts, United States and Vienna, Austria	Rego Park, New York, USA
Trial	Altova offers a fully functional 30-day free trial of DatabaseSpy.	The product page offers a free trial and links to download the full-featured version; it does not state the trial duration.

SQL Assistant v14 Standard Edition — 1-user license$240.31, paid once
SQL Assistant v14 Professional Edition — 1-user license$395.14, paid once
SQL Assistant v14 Standard Edition — 5-user license pack$1,041.46, paid once
SQL Assistant v14 Professional Edition — 5-user license pack$1,820.90, paid once
SQL Assistant v14 Standard Edition — 10-user license pack$2,062.72, paid once
SQL Assistant v14 Professional Edition — 10-user license pack$3,456, paid once

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