When comparing DbForge Studio for MySQL vs MySQL Workbench, the Slant community recommends MySQL Workbench for most people. In the question“What are the best SQL clients for Linux?” MySQL Workbench is ranked 7th while DbForge Studio for MySQL is ranked 16th. The most important reason people chose MySQL Workbench is:
Actions can be directly carried out on tables. The software prepares the relevant query for approval before execution.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Built-in debugger
Quite functional debugger for MySQL stored routines. A step-by-step code execution, breakpoints, watches, a call stack, a variable evaluation mechanism to automate debugging of MySQL stored functions and procedures.
Pro Backup and restoration
Quick backup and restoration of MySQL databases. Also, there is an option to schedule an automated MySQL database backup.
Pro Build-in documenter
Generation of MySQL and MariaDB database documentation in the HTML, PDF and Markdown formats
Pro Has a handy 'Copy Databases" tool
Easily transfers MySQL Server databases from one server instance to another
Pro Database diagrams
Just perfect feature for db analysis and reverse-engineering.
Pro Schema and data comparison
Pro Relational database systems support
MySQL server, MariaDB server, Amazon RDS and more
Pro Query profiler
Supports visual query profiling & can compare profiling results btw different queries.
Pro Easy to use
Actions can be directly carried out on tables. The software prepares the relevant query for approval before execution.
Pro Community version
There is a community edition available that is free and open source; licensed under GPL.
Pro EER diagramming
MySQL Workbench has enhanced entity–relationship modeling support.
Pro Cross-platform
Works on Windows, Linux, OS X.
Pro Database synchronization
Forward & reverse engeneering
Cons
Con Only Windows
Only available for Windows.
Con Mixed experience
Doesn't support HiDPi mode on Windows, everything looks blurry. On Linux it has missing features. On Mac seems to be working just fine. But overall a mixed experience.
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.
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.