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

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Post by randallsquared »

JustSomeNobody wrote: post #41
awinder wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

To my eyes, dbvisualizer and databasespy are never going to have native look and feel on OSX and I’m going to feel like their UI is inferior because of it. Maybe they’re more powerful & established right now especially but I used Sequel Pro when I was using MySQL for the same reason. This tool seems great for people like me who see good OSX experience as table stakes.

> To my eyes, dbvisualizer and databasespy are never going to have native look and feel on OSX and I’m going to feel like their UI is inferior because of it. I'm having trouble understanding this thought process. Are you saying you'd pick a truly inferior tool that looks good on a Mac to a superior tool that looks inferior because of the UI?

No, he's saying that well-executed native UI has a high weight for him when calculating which tool is inferior.

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

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Post by karmakaze »

BerislavLopac wrote: post #21
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've recently discovered DBeaver, and am quite happy with it. https://dbeaver.jkiss.org/

Even for just PostgreSQL, Postico is fine on Mac but then on Linux the best I've found is DBeaver.

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

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Post by eberkund »

ble52 wrote: post #38

Love it! Please don't bother with people who don't care about proper native experience. I've been waiting for a tool like that for sooooo long and I'm really happy to see it. I love when developers use the platform to its full extent instead fighting with it (like Electron and all rest of cross-platform approaches) And for those whining about "macOS-only" - take a look at Tower, a Git client that was initially macOS-…

Actually, a Windows release is already in the works. It was supposed to be released in January but they ran into some delays. https://github.com/TablePlus/TablePlus/issues/9

You can find out about their tech stack in their FAQ: https://tableplus.io/faq

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

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Post by xemoka »

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.

It is awful. I hope one day it's as good as pgAdmin3, but I'm not hopeful. It's great to develop it in the same way as postgresql because that's how the developers are used to working, but it would really benefit from a more open development model using github or gitlab. I don't understand why they chose their tooling for pgAdmin4, but I'm sure it must be buried in the mailing lists somewhere...

Thankfully BigSQL are still updating pgadmin3 to work with postgresql 10: https://www.openscg.com/bigsql/pgadmin3/

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

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Post by apocalip »

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).

Compared to Navicat Premium this is basically free... Navicat Premium for similar amounts of Database Systems currently costs 1299$ even Navicat Essentials costs 199$ And to top it off you can even use TablePlus for free if you accept some Limits!

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

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Post by batbomb »

LaGrange wrote: post #49
JustSomeNobody wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> To my eyes, dbvisualizer and databasespy are never going to have native look and feel on OSX and I’m going to feel like their UI is inferior because of it. I'm having trouble understanding this thought process. Are you saying you'd pick a truly inferior tool that looks good on a Mac to a superior tool that looks inferior because of the UI?

This matters. The dbvis interface looks like a misclick waiting to happen. I seriously prefer using plain psql over tools with that much noise. If it doesn't improve visibility, it can GTFO. Seriously, I have access to all the fancy features already. I need a tool that will make the usual stuff - table introspection, mostly - easier and more pleasant. If I need to export some stuff, nine times out of ten I'll do it i…

dbvis is fine. It’s not eye candy, but it’s the only tool which gets the job done uniformly for any database you may need to connect to.
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