DbVisualizer Reviews

Summary: One of the best software products I've ever used.

I used to use the product nearly every day. In my current role I do not do as much SQL but it is still my go-to tool. I have purchased it for every team that I have had.

Positive: I have used DbVisualizer for many years and several other similar products both commercial and open source. I have consistently found DbVisualizer to be head and shoulders above any of the alternatives. I have especially appreciated that there is a cli tool as well as an excellent IDE experience. I have written several automated scripts with the cli for production workloads. The price is quite reasonable for the value.

Negative: It has been rock solid for several years. I cannot claim there are really any "cons" per se. Years ago it would occasionally crash but I haven't experienced that in some time. The price has increased but not terribly.

Summary: I have used DbVisualizer for over 5 years now. In past, I used vendors db admin tools for each of their product, but this tool solved my solution to have a single solution for multiple vendors. This is the only tool I use to do my database developments.

Positive: Ease of use, a lot of functionality, multiple DB support, cross platform, very useful if you are working with multiple databases.

Negative: There is a learning curve involved on using it in the beginning, but you will appreciate it.

Summary: Love this product, have used it since the early 2000's, mostly with postgresql, mysql, oracle. The free version is always available, but the licensed version has many useful additions.

Positive: - Provides a convenient way to organize a lot of database connections
- Visually highlights prod vs dev connections
- Edits, formats, keeps track of SQL script files
- Supports vendor-specific syntax
- Easy access to query plans
- Handles large queries
- Includes driver jars for many databases

Negative: - Upgrade process not always easy
- Java memory usage can be high

Summary: Overall, I have been very happy with DbVis over the many years I have been a Pro licensee. As a developer, it's important that my "tool box" is always up to the task. I always choose to pay for tools behind which a strong and responsive support/development team stands. I am happy to pay for good quality and responsive support, and DbVis has always provided that.

Positive: One of the best things about DbVis (apart from the fact that it just works) is that the tech support team is always super responsive. Over the years I have submitted a few support requests, and I've always had a reply within 24 hours, and that reply has always contained either a helpful explanation/instruction, or a promise to address an issue in the next release. I work with a team of about 4 developers on an Informix based project, and DbVis has always been the "go to" tool, envied by those who have no choice but to use the Informix equivalent.

Negative: In the past there were a few UI issues as Windows and Java transitioned to ultra high resolution support and inevitably Windows 11, but tech support always provided workarounds until subsequent versions addressed. There are no longer any UI issues in my experience.

Summary: This is a very good tool for accessing databases. I can definitely recommend it to anyone who often works with databases.

Positive: I use this tool for many years now.
Easy to use, ease to configure and a lot of db’s supported.
Explain plan.
Multi tab sql editors.
Common used scripts saved inside the tool.
Connecting using SSH tunnel.
And a lot more...

Negative: Sometimes a windows size issue if you work with multiple screens with a differed resolution.

Summary: Great tool for development and testing. Easily add new JDBC drivers for new database types and versions.

Positive: Simple to use with multiple Database types. Easily export data to multiple formats. Helpful formatting of SQL for better readability.

Negative: I would like better tab organization as I tend to work on multiple projects at once.

Summary: We have used DBVisualizer for 8 years as our DB development and support tool. We have achieved DB migrations with ease that failed when using the DB specific tool. Highly recommended.

Positive: A powerful cross platform DB tool that allows both Mac and Windows users to work together seamlessly.

Negative: It would be great if we could use DBVisualizer to create and use data entry forms (beyond the Grid style data entry already supported) for in-house use.

Summary: My team and I use this tool to perfect our queries to different DBs on various platforms. We then port these to scripts to use in our tools. DbVisualiser is an essential part of our workflow.

Positive: - It works on many different platforms
- Exporting data to Excel is a breeze
- Easy to use and snappy
- UI is intuitive

Negative: - Setting up connections can be complicated at first
- Learning curve for non-technical people

Summary: One application that connects to all the databases in my life, with working import/export features. I am an Open Source guy - but this is one application I am happy to pay a license for, there is nothing else that delivers what DbVisualizer does.

Positive: A deep feature set - connects to everything - and all of the features work. Handles large results well, something where many applications fall down.

Negative: It is a big application, takes a moment to start. Worth it for what it can do.

Summary: A great tool for query development and even better for manually moving data from one data source to the next.

Positive: Easy to use UI.
Full featured.
Connect to multitude of data sources with ease.
Stable and reliable application.

Negative: A few aliasing issues that i imagine support will fix.

Summary: DbVisualizer is the goto tool for me and my team to access DBs across multiple platforms without having to switch tools. As an organization that uses DBs from different vendors, this is a must have for us. Our ETL and SAS teams use the tool for querying the DB and for data analysis. The macro-tool is super useful when it comes to ETL type work. I know members of my team who use this tool multiple times a day. It is indispensable.

Positive: Key Pros:
- Multi-platform use and access
- Great UI that is functional , yet easy to use
- Easy to discover schema, save schema, duplicate databases for multiple environments
- Easy to export data for reporting purposes

Negative: - Need for admin privileges to use the tool
- Setting up a new DB could be little tricky
- And queries with large result sets sometimes make the application hang and one has to restart the whole application
- Sometimes queries are very difficult to stop

Summary: I've used DbVis daily for over 10 years for multiple platforms (Oracle, SQLServer, Postgres, Netezza, and Vertica). I've tried many other paid and free tools, and one of them really compare at this price point. It does everything I need and continues to be improved year over year.

Positive: Connection management, wide DBMS platform support, query parameterization, query history, multiple export formats, CLI functionality, object management, query timing, environment customization.

Negative: TBH there's so much to like that I have a hard time finding things to criticize. I use this tool every single day and have yet to run into something I need to do that it doesn't support. The only issues I've run into are JVM-related and occur with OOM exceptions, but that has only happened after I've had a long-running instance of DbVis and have returned large result sets. Easily resolved by the occasional restart.

Summary: I moved from a MS SQL Server environment to an IBM DB2 environment and found the out-of-the-box toolset to be lacking significantly. Adding DBVis dramatically improved the ease of working with databases.

Positive: Responsive application, intuitive UI, auto format SQL. Application is highly customizable, even things like the auto-formatting of SQL code feature is customizable to fit your preferred formatting.

Negative: Not a lot of new features. Would love to see integrations to automation tools like Power Automate Desktop. Would also like to see a way of saving queries in more of a library format than the standard saving of SQL files.

Summary: Other folks in the company use other tools that I found a little more difficult to use. I recommend to everyone that uses an SQL tool.

Positive: DBViz has been my sql tool of choice for the past 3-4 years. I used the free version for a couple of years and now have upgraded to the pro version. Very easy to configure and use.

Negative: Only 1 window at a time unless you have the pro version.

Summary: I first started using DbVisulaizer years ago when searching for a replacement for Toad at a SaaS startup in Mountain View. We were looking to lower some of our operational costs around the management of our Oracle investments. As time progressed, the team began working with PostgreSQL, SQL Server, MySQL and Cassandra. The selection of DbVisulaizer to replace an Oracle centric tool for us became a great universal investment.

Positive: Options - support for a number of database management systems in one tool. Unlike some of the alternatives, there is actual support behind these claims.

Ease of Install - You can pull down a combined installer that handle JVM dependencies - making the install a breeze. Especially useful when rolling out to non-developers.

Features - DbVisualizer comes standard with everything you need to work with modern databases. Query support, schema discovery and object scripting. Great visual queues when working across non-prod and production environments.

Negative: Driver management can be a little tedious at times, but it still beats building out JDBC connections in a text file by a mile.