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I've had better experiences with DataGrip, but if I wasn't at a place that would pay for proper tools, DBeaver is an OK substitute. Neither, though, have the big thing I want in an analytical SQL workspace:

Simple charts

A whole lot of my work ends up with a three- or four-column table with one column of buckets, and the other being counts of how many things ended up in that bucket. I'd love a view where I could render that into a line or bar chart as a sanity check, and have it update in real-time as I change my query. Instead, I end up having to constantly copy/paste into Excel and do it there.

Yes, I should be using a proper BI or visualization tool for real reports. But sometimes I just need a quick line chart to show that yes, that one count is going in the right direction.



Have a look at Metabase. It's open source, web based and runs from a single JAR. Not the same as a full fledged management tool of course, but I like it for simple queries and charts and the price!

DbVisualizer also has built in charts that are simple but... not free/open source.


Or if you don't mind the web based approach, Apache Zeppelin too.




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