When comparing Adminer vs Sequel Ace, the Slant community recommends Sequel Ace for most people. In the question“What are the best MySQL GUI clients for OS X?” Sequel Ace is ranked 13th while Adminer is ranked 14th. The most important reason people chose Sequel Ace is:
Since this as an updated version of Sequel Pro, there are fewer crashes than the dead project.
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Pros
Pro Lightweight
The installation and Adminer itself only requires a single PHP file. Once it's uploaded you can log in and start using it.
Pro Supports more than MySQL
It supports several database management systems (Postgres, SQLite, Oracle, MS SQL and of course MySQL).
Pro Database views
Anyone who uses the views function will appreciate Adminer better. You can click on a view and edit to change the view. In phpMyAdmin, you can edit a view, but it's not easy or intuitive. SQL Buddy doesn't have any way of doing this.
Pro Themes
Has a great variety of themes which transfers pretty ugly application into a great looking one.
Pro Installation
No need to install, it's available to use out of the box.
Pro Doesn't crash like Sequel Pro
Since this as an updated version of Sequel Pro, there are fewer crashes than the dead project.
Pro Open Source and on Mac App Store
Cons
Con Bulk edition problems
Con Doesn't support multiple result tabs for multiple queries
This feature exists in other programs like Navicat, TablePlus, Querious, and MySQL WorkBench.
Con Slow/laggy query editor window
Query editor window is extremely slow/unresponsive when you have several queries in it. Same as Sequel Pro.
