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Show HN: Beekeeper Studio – open-source, cross-platform SQL client

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Re: Show HN: Beekeeper Studio – open-source, cross-platform SQL client

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What are some of the comparisons with MySqlWorkbench? It's the only one I have stuck around using so far, so looking to shop around for a different client to try.

It's less for a DBA and more for someone who just uses a DB as like a web or mobile developer for example.

Re: Show HN: Beekeeper Studio – open-source, cross-platform SQL client

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What are some of the comparisons with MySqlWorkbench? It's the only one I have stuck around using so far, so looking to shop around for a different client to try.

Side note, if you're exclusively on MySQL I would suggest checking out https://www.sequelpro.com/ - it served me well for many years.

Re: Show HN: Beekeeper Studio – open-source, cross-platform SQL client

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Hey folks, This is a passion project from myself and a friend. Been looking for a slick and easy to use SQL client on Linux for a while (I wanted basically Sequel Pro, on Linux, for PSQL). Couldn't find what I wanted, so we made one ourselves. It's built on Electron using Vue.js - I know HN opinions on electron apps, but I've been surprised on how snappy the app is. It's fully open source (MIT), cross-platform (Linux…

Hey, it would be great if you published it to AUR (Arch Linux)!

Hoping to! It's built with electron-builder and there's no plugin for aur yet, so will have to manually figure it out. I'm very pro Linux.

Re: Show HN: Beekeeper Studio – open-source, cross-platform SQL client

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Hey folks, This is a passion project from myself and a friend. Been looking for a slick and easy to use SQL client on Linux for a while (I wanted basically Sequel Pro, on Linux, for PSQL). Couldn't find what I wanted, so we made one ourselves. It's built on Electron using Vue.js - I know HN opinions on electron apps, but I've been surprised on how snappy the app is. It's fully open source (MIT), cross-platform (Linux…

Quite cool! Nice work :) Why an app vs. full hosted given it's Electron?

I've built both! My personal frustration was the lack of a simple SQL client on Linux. So here we are :-)

Re: Show HN: Beekeeper Studio – open-source, cross-platform SQL client

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This is pretty cool! Better SQL clients are always welcome. I tried with Postgres 12 and ran into 2 issues - - jsonb columns don't seem to render properly... just get a "[object Object]". - One specific table refused to get list anything, and there was a red "Error" in the center of the listing UI.

Good catches! Can you file a GitHub issue so I don't forget?

Re: Show HN: Beekeeper Studio – open-source, cross-platform SQL client

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I got pretty excited about trying this out, since I've been using a no longer maintained (and pretty buggy) app called Sequel Pro. But, Beekeeper kind of seems slow/clunky? I ran a simple query in our prod DB that returned 906 rows x 60 columns – the app completely froze up and I couldn't even scroll down to the next few rows...

I think wide tables are a performance problem with the table lib were using (tabulator). There may be ways to improve it. Frankly I don't have a 60 wide table to test with.

Can you file an issue so I don't forget?

Re: Show HN: Beekeeper Studio – open-source, cross-platform SQL client

#27

This is awesome. I love the simplicity. I tested it out with CockroachDB to satisfy my curiosity and it works perfectly, using the PostgreSQL driver. I think adding first-class support would be as easy as making a new driver that's the same as PostgreSQL but with a default port of 26257!

Damn had no idea. Awesome to know. Can you file an issue so I remember to do it?

Re: Show HN: Beekeeper Studio – open-source, cross-platform SQL client

#28

This is amazing! And SSL option right off the bat too? Well done. Feature request for Postgres: it looks like this version mostly displays tables in the 'public' schema. Would be great if it could display all tables and views in all schemas present in the database

100. Yeah I had to draw the line and decide to ship. It's on the Todo list

Re: Show HN: Beekeeper Studio – open-source, cross-platform SQL client

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Hey folks, This is a passion project from myself and a friend. Been looking for a slick and easy to use SQL client on Linux for a while (I wanted basically Sequel Pro, on Linux, for PSQL). Couldn't find what I wanted, so we made one ourselves. It's built on Electron using Vue.js - I know HN opinions on electron apps, but I've been surprised on how snappy the app is. It's fully open source (MIT), cross-platform (Linux…

> I wanted basically Sequel Pro, on Linux, for PSQL Have you seen http://sequeljoe.ohwg.net/ ? I'm also following https://github.com/ragnar-lodbrok/meow-sql closely, a C++/Qt port of the FOSS-but-Windows-only https://www.heidisql.com/ . But neither of these are really "fully baked" options. EDIT: This may have come across as the typical HN "middlebrow dismissal" so I just want to say, phenomenal work and a heartfelt…

HeidiSQL on Wine, seconded.

Re: Show HN: Beekeeper Studio – open-source, cross-platform SQL client

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Nice work! I primarily use TablePlus, but it's lack of support for saved queries is a big downside, this could be great for that use case. A couple of UX things I've noticed, do with them what you will ;) - When clicking on a table, the more common expectation for me is for it to open that table in a new tab, or switch to an open tab already using that table. The dropdown with columns is nice, but feels secondary. -…

Thanks!

The click interaction is something I'm not sure about. Neither feel totally right. Still thinking about it.

It should fill when you open it. What DB are you using?

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