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TablePlus – Modern, Native Tool for Database Management

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Re: TablePlus – Modern, Native Tool for Database Management

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Post by jolmg »

satyrnein wrote: post #44
jolmg wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Right, it's not like their cost of production is proportional to the number of computers the software is used in. It's like trying to buy a vacuum cleaner and being charged per room you plan to use it in.

It's not proportional to number of users, either. Zero marginal costs mean pricing is always at least a little arbitrary.

> pricing is always at least a little arbitrary.

Whatever both buyer and seller agree on. I think in general buyers can agree that, by the nature of software and the existence of the internet, if people share their bought software like they would any other object, then the seller risks not being able to make any profit at all. Since sharing software is copying software, there's no equivalent of "returning" what was borrowed. It's a compromise most buyers can understand.

However, charging per machine of the same user seems to cross the line, no? Sellers are pushing, and I think it's valid here for buyers to push back.

EDIT: Could we have the courtesy of including explanatory replies with downvotes? Simply downvoting seems like the equivalent of replying, "No. Shut up."

Re: TablePlus – Modern, Native Tool for Database Management

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Post by reaperducer »

HHad3 wrote: post #2

The application looks and feels nice, but the per-device pricing/licensing model seems severely outdated to me. I will not make a purchase unless named licenses, which enable me to use the application on all devices and operating systems I use (with reasonable limits if DRM is needed for some reason), are available.

It's worse on the iOS version. It's a $3.99/month subscription.

No thanks. I don't rent software.

Re: TablePlus – Modern, Native Tool for Database Management

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Post by ufmace »

ryanmarsh wrote: post #62

No mention of DynamoDB or Cosmos. Why can’t these DB’s get some love from tool vendors?

I use both TablePlus and DynamoDB at work. I don't see any reason to bother trying to put DynamoDB support into TablePlus.

DynamoDB is great at its one killer feature of supporting arbitrarily huge tables without you having to worry about any details. For everything else, it's just kind of adequate, considering the constraint of needing to support multi-Terabyte tables. It lacks a huge number of features that all RDBMSes have that would admittedly be impossible or not make sense on huge tables. Thus, it doesn't make much sense to try to access it from a RDBMS GUI.

The AWS Console provides all of the GUI that really makes sense for it, plus the CLI tools and API.

Re: TablePlus – Modern, Native Tool for Database Management

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Post by greggyb »

aik wrote: post #54
wenc wrote: post #28

I work with SQL Server. I really like general multi-db GUI tools like this, but also wonder if one is giving up a lot of power. SQL Server's free native tool is SSMS (SQL Server Management Studio), which is one of the most powerful SQL clients I've ever used. (despite my carryover reservations with MS products from the 1980s-90s, SQL Server is indisputably an innovative and solid piece of technology -- MS did somethi…

How do you deal with the complete lack of searching for tables/SPs/functions in SSMS? There are a number of 3rd party extensions but they all seem slow and still just jump you to the entity in the explorer. The speed of searching for anything in DataGrip is just so beautiful and amazing for productivity. A big downside is we have run into situations where a SP is cached and is an old version and DataGrip doesn’t noti…

GUI search is awful, but it does exist. Right clicking on an object type node (e.g. 'Tables' or 'Procedures' in the object explorer) and selecting the 'Filter' option gives you a limited search feature for objects in that node.

It is clumsy and painful, and I will most often just query the sys schema to search for objects, but GUI search is there.

Re: TablePlus – Modern, Native Tool for Database Management

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Post by hackerm0nkey »

eugeniub wrote: post #70
hackerm0nkey wrote: post #68

> After 1 year, you can continue using TablePlus without any limitations but you can't upgrade to the latest version. If you want to upgrade, you must renew the license, the renewal fee is much cheaper than buying a new one. This sort of put me off. Personally I am fine with a single user perpetual license for my use case. But as they are claiming it being a young project and likely to have more bugs than your averag…

TablePlus for 2 Macs with 12 months of updates: $99 SetApp subscription for 2 Macs (includes TablePlus): $108/year

Interesting, didn't know about SetApp before, thanks.

I wonder how they manage around DRM rights with the individual app publisher?

Re: TablePlus – Modern, Native Tool for Database Management

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Post by HatchedLake721 »

anhthang wrote: post #56
ganomi wrote: post #19

Free alternative i have been using for some years now: https://dbeaver.io/ The community edition is updated more often than i would like and sometimes features break but bugs get fixed quickly and they add usefull stuff all the time. Dont know what i would do if i was stuck with pgAdmin...

I like SequelPro. The UI much simpler, powerful, but it's inactivated, nobody working on it to update for new macOS :(

Which is a big shame. I'm happy to $$$ pay for Sequel Pro, but it's been abandoned for 1-2 years now?

Re: TablePlus – Modern, Native Tool for Database Management

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Post by 0x49d1 »

computerman1337 wrote: post #63

How does this compare to Datagrip / IntelliJ IDEA for databases in terms of functionality? I’ve been using IntelliJ for relational databases and I am very pleased with it.

Hmm, I'm in the same situation: how reliable is the company behind it, can I trust their expertise?..
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