What are the best SQL clients for Linux?

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Best SQL clients for Linux	Price	Platforms	Last Updated
94 DBeaver	FREE	Windows, Linux, Mac	Aug 15, 2019
-- DataGrip	$ 199/Y	-	Aug 15, 2019
-- Squirrel SQL	FREE	-	Aug 7, 2019
-- Sqlectron	Free	Windows, Linux, Mac	Aug 18, 2019
-- MySQL Workbench	FREE	-	Aug 5, 2019

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11 Other Options Considered

DataGrip

Top Pro

Friendly interface

Zero learning curve interface for those who have expeirence with another IntelliJ IDE. See More

Top Con

Expensive

As of January 2018, Jet Brains charges $89 for 1st year, $71 for 2nd year, and $53 for every 3rd year and onwards for individual customers. See More

Don Alfons Nisnoni's Experience

Great for beginners See More

Top Pro

Easy to add external database drivers using JDBC

For example, it is easy to get DataGrip to work with Spark SQL / Thriftserver See More

Top Pro

Helps you avoid mistakes

It can catch SQL bugs and suggest ways to resolve them. It will inform of unresolved objects and the use of keywords as identifiers. See More

Top Pro

Powerful data editor

A powerful data editor lets you add, remove, edit, and clone data rows. Navigate through the data by foreign keys and use the text search to find anything in the data displayed in the table editor. All your changes are stored locally and can be submitted at once. Multiple fields can also be edited at once. See More

Top Pro

Good integration with other IntelliJ tools

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MySQL Workbench

Top Pro

Community version

There is a community edition available that is free and open source; licensed under GPL. See More

Top Con

Freezes constantly

Running any kind of query with more than a thousand records or even just opening a file and other actions crashes the application. You are unable to actually stop a query. You have to kill from Windows Task Manager every single time. See More

EmpatheticMehen's Experience

Too complicated, not able to scale up size of fonts etc, installs its own java See More

Top Pro

Cross-platform

Works on Windows, Linux, OS X. See More

Top Con

Unintuitive UI

Workbench's user interface is regarded by a lot of users as unintuitive and hard to use. It seems cluttered and hard to get used to. The left side of the application has several sections (which you get to choose which to open) with several tools for each. A lot of features are hidden behind menus and need some getting used to find them. See More

Top Pro

EER diagramming

MySQL Workbench has enhanced entity–relationship modeling support. See More

Top Con

Column size is limited

Can't read columns bigger than 65534 chars. See More

Top Pro

Database synchronization

Forward & reverse engeneering See More

Top Pro

Easy to use

Actions can be directly carried out on tables. The software prepares the relevant query for approval before execution. See More

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SQL Workbench

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