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Re: Show HN: TablePlus – A macOS client for relational databases

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Post by dancek »

I've been using DataGrip by JetBrains for a while now. I have no qualms with it, but the price would be an issue if I didn't have the full JetBrains pack already from my employer.

What is the killer feature of TablePlus? Should I try it even though I'm happy with DataGrip? Or is it just as good for a lower price?

https://www.jetbrains.com/datagrip/

Re: Show HN: TablePlus – A macOS client for relational databases

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Post by jason_slack »

Chris911 wrote: post #70
jason_slack wrote: post #52

I like what TablePlus is offering. My question is the price. $69 isn't horrible, but it is still a lot. Is this one time $69 with a long path of free upgrades or is this $69 once a year like other software I use (VMWare Fusion, Office, etc).

The pricing page shows $49 at the moment. https://tableplus.io/pricing

Thanks! I see it. It was $69 earlier today.

Re: Show HN: TablePlus – A macOS client for relational databases

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Post by TAForObvReasons »

modernerd wrote: post #16

https://tableplus.io/ for those who want to try it without reading the launch post. Mac-only, Windows version planned. Free to download with paid upgrades giving more features: https://tableplus.io/pricing . Looks like a good potential alternative to https://www.sequelpro.com/ (Mac and MySQL -only, donationware).

> https://www.sequelpro.com/ (Mac and MySQL -only, donationware).

sequelpro is open source: https://github.com/sequelpro/sequelpro

Re: Show HN: TablePlus – A macOS client for relational databases

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Post by pjmlp »

tieubao wrote: post #36
pjmlp wrote: post #20

Looks quite nice. Currently stuck on pgAdmin 1.22, as I won't touch the "modern" Electron version of it.

Electron what?

You are right, it is not Electron, I mixed it up because it is anyway the same idea.

> Written in Python using the Flask framework for the backend, and Javascript/jQuery/Backbone for the frontend, it can easily be deployed as a WSGI application for multiple users in practically any network environment. A small runtime application allows it to be run as a desktop application - this is a Qt executable that incorporates a Python interpreter and web browser along with the main application in a single package that can be installed on a developer laptop as with previous versions of pgAdmin.

https://pgsnake.blogspot.de/2016/04/pgadmin-4-elephant-nears...

Re: Show HN: TablePlus – A macOS client for relational databases

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Post by pjmlp »

okket wrote: post #25
pjmlp wrote: post #20

Looks quite nice. Currently stuck on pgAdmin 1.22, as I won't touch the "modern" Electron version of it.

I wish pgAdmin 4 was built on Electron. It is that horrible.

I just cross-checked, yep I got it wrong, but it isn't much different than from Electron.

https://pgsnake.blogspot.de/2016/04/pgadmin-4-elephant-nears...

Re: Show HN: TablePlus – A macOS client for relational databases

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Post by rabidrat »

no_gravity wrote: post #82

I would like to stay in the terminal even when working on a DB. But I never found a decent terminal based DB client with a GUI (TUI?). So I am writing my own at the moment. A terminal based database editor. It's a bit like vim for databases. If you too are interested in such a thing, let me know.

Have you seen VisiData[0]? It supports Postgres and sqlite at the moment (read-only). Do you want more than simple editing of fields and deleting of rows?

[0] http://visidata.org

Re: Show HN: TablePlus – A macOS client for relational databases

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Post by turtlebits »

dancek wrote: post #122

I've been using DataGrip by JetBrains for a while now. I have no qualms with it, but the price would be an issue if I didn't have the full JetBrains pack already from my employer. What is the killer feature of TablePlus? Should I try it even though I'm happy with DataGrip? Or is it just as good for a lower price? https://www.jetbrains.com/datagrip/

DataGrip has one of the worst UI's (if not the worst) I've ever used.

If you create a new database (not using Datagrip), it won't show up in until you go manually enable it to be shown. I ran into so many issues wondering why my created databases didn't show up. (while spamming the refresh button in the toolbar). And ended up spending extra time to verify that they were there

Eventually figured out the setting is hidden in the context menu for a connection. Right click -> Database Tools (click). Get a new popup -> Manage Shown Schemas.

And the kicker is that it's not intuitively named AND hidden under a separate UI element. After not using DataGrip for a while, I end up spending a bunch of time digging through context menus trying to find it again.

Re: Show HN: TablePlus – A macOS client for relational databases

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Post by rabidrat »

sgt wrote: post #60

I think this looks great. But do you know what I would really enjoy - and that's a psql on steroids. Basically what I mean by that is take a lot of features in TablePlus but make a console app of it. You'd be expected to run super wide windows but it would lend itself to being used very rapidly without ever using the mouse, and being able to retain the incredible usefulness of psql while still getting an overview of…

I have been working on just such a console app[0]. I would love to hear your use cases. Email me and I would be happy to give you a demo.

[0] visidata.org

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