--- title: "DBeaver Reviews, Pros and Cons - 2026 Software Advice" description: "Reviews of DBeaver. Learn how real users rate this software's ease-of-use, functionality, overall quality and customer support. Talk to our advisors to see if DBeaver is a good fit for you!" source_url: "https://www.softwareadvice.com/collaboration/dbeaver-profile/reviews/" page_type: "reviews" language: "en" --- 1 million+ businesses helped. Get advice Get Free Advice [Home](https://www.softwareadvice.com/) / [Database Software](https://www.softwareadvice.com/database-management-systems/) / [DBeaver](https://www.softwareadvice.com/collaboration/dbeaver-profile/) / DBeaver Reviews Software Advice offers objective insights based on verified user reviews and independent product and market research. When our advisors match you to a software provider, we may earn a referral fee. [Overview](https://www.softwareadvice.com/collaboration/dbeaver-profile/) Reviews [Alternatives](https://www.softwareadvice.com/collaboration/dbeaver-profile/alternatives/) # DBeaver User Reviews ## Reviews summary - Overall rating: 4.5/5 - Total reviews: 79 ### Secondary ratings - Ease of use: 4.5/5 - Customer support: 4.1/5 - Value for money: 4.7/5 - Functionality: 4.5/5 ### Rating distribution - 5 stars: 44 reviews (56%) - 4 stars: 33 reviews (42%) - 3 stars: 2 reviews (3%) - 2 stars: 0 reviews (0%) - 1 star: 0 reviews (0%) ### Most mentioned pros - It’s especially great for developers and data analysts who need a multi-platform tool. - Very cheap I used the free version and I was still able to get most of the work done. - I've used it for many projects at work and at home. ### Most mentioned cons - Sometimes connection gets down, and reconnection process takes time - I can;t think of anything that I don't like much about Dbeaver. - The community version does not have all database engines available and the enterprise option has a very expensive annual subscription model. ## DBeaver customer reviews Showing reviews 1-25 of 79 (page 1). ### very good tool for manage different databases - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Giovanni P. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Banking - Company size: 1001-5000 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years - Reviewed: July 2021 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. A very good tool for managing different environments and database languages, it allows you to organize the connections in an efficient way, quickly identifying which environment you are working on, it has points of improvement but one of the best tools that I have tried for the database. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Functionality: 3/5 #### Pros It is a fairly easy to understand graphic tool that allows you to connect to almost any database language. It has multiple functionalities such as query plan that allows you to know the execution time of your queries. Allows you to customize the different environments that you set in the connections allowing you to identify which one you are working on. It also has multiple export results, allowing you to import it from a csv to a simple plain text file. #### Cons Some of its many features are only available for certain database languages, thus reducing the experience you may have with some languages such as SYBASE, which for example does not support a query plan for this language. #### Reasons for switching to DBeaver Dbeaver has a much more graphical and user-friendly interface and allows you to handle much more database languages. --- ### Easy and intuitive tool - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Jorge C. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Banking - Company size: 10000+ employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 12 months - Reviewed: June 2021 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. I am very happy with the software, is one of my principal tools for a quick look up of a relationship in a data model or a simple query. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 3/5 - Functionality: 3/5 #### Pros All in all, softwares I could try, this one is the most easy and intuitive of all of them. The installation is very easy and don't takes too much space. #### Cons It has some issues when you place a query and when the filters on a database active #### Reasons for switching to DBeaver I find more option and easiness in this software --- ### Pretty robust but there are better alternatives - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Computer Software - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 12 months - Reviewed: February 2021 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. I used this for almost a year before switching to MySQL. Overall i prefer that over this software. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros The availability for Ubuntu has been a lifesaver. I usually use another piece of software for writing queries but theyre not available for Ubuntu. The UI and the easy navigation is quite helpful #### Cons If there was a better filtering system implemented, i wouldve recommended this to every DB users. That wouldve made life a lot easier --- ### Most powerful querying database software I ever used - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Mariana R. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Accounting - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 12 months - Reviewed: June 2021 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. I enjoy every moment I use the software sometimes I feel like a professional doing my queries!! The best thing is that the User interface helps a lot with generating SQL: most interactable objects have a “generate SQL” Wizard that does as it says converts any filtering or selection you are doing to a nice SQL query that you can use then on your Editor, what can be more powerful than that!!?? I am learning SQL just by using it! #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros I love how easy is to setup the database connection, some other features are hard to come by but most of the features I use as just data analysis are easy to use. I love how tables can be seen as an interactive excel table and to be able to apply filters without having to write SQL at all!! Dbeaver is a very easy to learn for non-technical people. #### Cons There is so many thing that can be done with the software that I wish there was a analyst view or some limited version so I don’t risk on doing something wrong to the databases, something I don’t use that much but I don’t like how the software seems overcrowded of features. --- ### an application that's 100 percentage developer friendly - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Rakesh R. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Computer Software - Company size: 201-500 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: March 2021 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered This tool will help to mitigate most of the production database issues in a quick time and found it to be one of the most reliable and staple tool. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros complex operations such as setting relations, key words primary keys.. these things can be easily done with dbeaver and there is a space in this tool which allow you to run separate queries as sections or instances and also save and categories all the queries so that you could use it in future and the connection setup is also good based on other applications which you have to go through complex steps and all and if you wanna edit the schema of a particular table all the functions are available in it with specific instructions so that you won't get stuck in between. and if you are stuck somewhere there are plenty of forum's with which you could find instant helps and all #### Cons user interface isn't that much of an engaging type,would have been better if they improve the UI --- ### Awesome database administration tool - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Fernando R. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Computer Software - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: November 2022 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. We use DBeaver to administrate all our systems, in development enviroments and in more than 60 production enviroments #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros A unique tool for use with almost all database systems #### Cons A bit more clarity in the user interface #### Reasons for switching to DBeaver Dbeaver is more clear and useful and it is multi database --- ### Wonderful database management system I've ever use - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Ashif Ahmed S. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Publishing - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years - Reviewed: November 2022 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros This system is so user friendly. Easy to access. Most of the popular database I can access in it fluently. The SQL presentation is so peaceful & awesome. I LOVE THIS SYSTEM #### Cons Huge data population is being slow sometimes. So much platform independent but in Ubuntu system I got some lack --- ### DBeaver - Connect any DB - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Sayam J. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Technology and Services - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 12 months - Reviewed: April 2023 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros DBeaver helped us in connecting our different databases under one client. #### Cons It may work on its intellisense feature as there is issue with some of the databeses. --- ### Great Client for Databases - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Haniel L. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Computer Software - Company size: 10000+ employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: June 2022 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Filled with features and has the ability to connect to multiple databases. Good ability to export data from databases and has an inbuilt entity-relationship diagram builder. #### Cons Easy to start with, can get confusing due to multiple features. The user interface can be simplified and you can get easily overwhelmed. --- ### The swiss army knife of database manager - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Diego S. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Marketing and Advertising - Company size: 1001-5000 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 2 years - Reviewed: May 2021 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. I just love DBeaver so much that i recommend it to all the people that ask for a database manager. It makes my life easier and working with it is fun and easy!! My life as data scientist is much easier with this tool around! #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros It has so many features that I find very useful, for example the query editor with output and object explorer is fabulous. But the most impressive feature is its connectivity to almost any database engine, from a SQLite to a Postgres database or Microsoft sql. Also there is a build in feature to manage the table schemas and data model to change data types and modify or add relationships!! I forgot also to mention the performance monitoring this is great to see how is the database performing. Dbeaver is a full feature database manager. #### Cons Not much, only that if you open two instances of the same app it shows an error of the driver being in use, but there is no need for doing this. --- ### Affordable Database Software - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Bongani N. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Technology and Services - Company size: 201-500 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: January 2023 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. It's affordable database software offering high-quality features that can get any database job done more efficiently. The interface is amazing, and getting started is not a drag. I would recommend this to anyone in my industry. It's cost-effective, and it's an industry-level standard. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros There are a lot of things to like about DBeaver. What I like most about the software is: i) It's one of the most affordable database software in the market but performs as an industry standard. ii) I can connect to most of the databases in development. iii) Easy data exporting in different formats, including XML.iv) Seamless connection with NoSQL and SQL database. v) The software has regular updatesvi) User-friendly interfacevii) integration with different databases #### Cons i) I don't like the multiple tabs when retrieving a table. Which can waste time. Otherwise, it's an awesome software to use. #### Reasons for switching to DBeaver It was way more expensive! --- ### Good value tool for all SQL queries - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Umang R. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Packaging and Containers - Company size: 5001-10000 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years - Reviewed: December 2023 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. - overall, very good and useful tool to have in terms of SQL work #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros - Easy to use and get trained for reading and writing SQL queries - can retrieve all kinds of data through queries #### Cons - Export function could be easy to understand - Sometimes, you have to navigate the different functionalities --- ### Dbeaver review by D Analyst and Engineering - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Technology and Services - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: July 2021 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 2/5 - Value for money: 3/5 - Customer support: 3/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros The most I liked about this software was Cloud engineering. #### Cons The least I liked about this software was the features. #### Reasons for switching to DBeaver Complicated to use and Expensive --- ### Great DBMS tool for many platforms - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Computer Software - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: January 2022 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. A nice free DB tool for multiple platform. You can do all the sql operations you want to do simply in DBeaver. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros I've been using free version of dbeaver since 2018. First of all, it is very good that the product is multiplatform. I can easily use it on my windows, ubuntu and macbook m1 devices. SQL editor is successfully designed. Software receives frequent updates. It is also nice that the free version of this product is opensource project. #### Cons Sometimes import, export data and may be causing the problem. Also UI may seem a bit confusing for first-timers. --- ### Dbeaver - Free, easy to connect across multi platforms - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Neha F. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Financial Services - Company size: 1001-5000 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: March 2022 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 3/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros connecting across multi platforms, open source. Love the auto complete feature, makes it easy and time saving to query multiple columns without having to remember the metadata #### Cons Real time errors, dbeaver invalidates the working database having to re open the application. UI could be better and intuitive --- ### Good data management tool - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Technology and Services - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 12 months - Reviewed: March 2023 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros It has a great user interface and pretty much-advanced features like query execution plan analysis database backup and restores the user interface is customizable so it's great. #### Cons There is not a single thing about DBaever that I dislike. --- ### un DBMS intuitivo e familiare - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Technology and Services - Company size: 201-500 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years - Reviewed: October 2022 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered Tutto sommato è un client molto valido #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros La semplicità d’uso rispetto alle alternative. Esiste anche una versione free #### Cons Avrei gradito una configurazione guidata delle connessioni --- ### Time Saving Cross-DB SQL Toolbox - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Paul P. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Computer Software - Company size: 201-500 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: December 2023 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Very easy to install/set up and use. Love that it just works with pretty much all the main DBs out there. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros Intuitive and time-saving auto completion is a life-saver. #### Cons Occasionally slightly flaky UI (especially in Linux it seems) #### Reasons for switching to DBeaver DBBeaver had better DB support for MariaDB, etc. --- ### Perfect tool for daily data pulls - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Mickey v. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Computer Software - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: July 2021 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros DBeaver saves all your work in the exact state that you left it before closing. This makes it very convenient to pick up where you left when you start a new day of work. Only when queries themselves are altered does it ask you to specifically save your work. #### Cons Some expertise on database management is requirement if one would like to use this software. That makes it a less popular choice for people that only need to do simple queries on a daily base to get their work done. --- ### One tool for multiple SQL engines. - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Gaston M. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Technology and Services - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 2 years - Reviewed: July 2022 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Very well experience, I will consider it in my upcomming projects. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros I found really usefull to use the same tool for multiple SQL vendors. It is compatible with the mayority of SQL engines. Super easy to set up a connection and offers really usefull features for development and testing purposes. #### Cons I think the product is not well known in the industry, i got recommended by a workmate but never heard abou it before, I should suggest to improve the way that the product is being sold. --- ### Easily view your local db - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Computer Software - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 12 months - Reviewed: May 2022 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros I wanted some database viewer that's easy to setup and view/edit my local environment data for different purposes like testing, and this software did just that. #### Cons The UI could be improved on especially the icons because some of them are confusing and I always have to hover over them to see what they do. --- ### Free and extensive Database tool - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Mahonri G. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Railroad Manufacture - Company size: 201-500 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 12 months - Reviewed: May 2021 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. After I personalized and customized the environment and preferences it was very easy to work with this database administration tool. It also helps you when you encounter errors in your coding, it gives you very useful hints. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros I like this SQL software application because is free and very extensive. It's easy to use once you set the environment down and all customize the way you want to work. I also like that it supports a variety of databases especially PostgreSQL #### Cons The only thing I think of it's the actual setting up, it could be a hassle. Also, if you are working with multiple databases, you have to set as default the one you want to work on every time you close and open DBeaver --- ### Best software ever used!!!! - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Swathi S. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Technology and Services - Company size: 10000+ employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 2 years - Reviewed: March 2021 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered Reduced data redundancy efficient data integration Best in privacy and data security as well Backup and recovery is also a good key feature of the software. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros I has excellent security practices. It's very user friendly software, great efficiency #### Cons To be frank all the features are upto the mark. Best flexibility, efficiency and also budget friendly. #### Reasons for choosing DBeaver The best software till the date 100 marks for the software!!! #### Reasons for switching to DBeaver I found Dbeaver to be the best software --- ### Database connections become easy with this beaver. - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Thiyagu A. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: E-Learning - Company size: 1001-5000 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 6 months - Reviewed: September 2022 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Connecting a lot of databases like Postgres, MySQL and many other become easy and problem free with this one software. Using the unique user interface and simple navigations makes it easy to use in simple connections. This Beaver replaces the individual UI interfaces for each database. This one provides more information than the default software provided by the database management organizations. Also, query terminal and table creation options are pretty useful. #### Cons Apart from the simple connections, it becomes hard to locate some features and the learning curve for advanced operations is quite steep. So, it lacks to provide a unique user experience for advanced users. --- ### Great SQL Server alternative - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Jared M. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Marketing and Advertising - Company size: 10000+ employees - Product usage: Used other for less than 6 months - Reviewed: August 2021 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros The Database navigator on the left-hand side makes it easier to see the tables in your database. #### Cons The script view of DBeaver is a little klunky, but other than that, great software to connect to different data sources. ## More reviews [Next reviews](https://www.softwareadvice.com/collaboration/dbeaver-profile/reviews/?page=2) --- DBeaver Reviews, Pros and Cons - 2026 Software Advice