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Redgate Deploy
Redgate Software
Standardize deployments for SQL Server, Oracle, and 18 other databases Increase frequency and reliability of database deployments Flexible toolchain for easy adoption across teams Catch errors and speed up development with Continuous Integration Get oversight of every change to your databases. From version control to continuous delivery, Redgate Deploy lets your teams automate database development processes so you can accelerate software delivery and ensure quality code. Building on your continuous delivery process for applications, and incorporating Redgate’s industry-leading tools and Flyway migrations framework, Redgate Deploy extends DevOps to your databases. Automate your deployments for faster delivery of database changes through your pipeline. To guarantee quality and consistency, Redgate Deploy provides repeatable processes that you can standardize on at every stage, from version control to live deployment.Starting Price: $2,499 per user per year -
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SQL Admin Toolset
IDERA, and Idera, Inc. company
Simplify daily SQL Server administration tasks. Database administrators need simple and quick ways to manage their SQL Server environment. SQL Admin Toolset provides 24 essential desktop tools for SQL Server to save time by simplifying routine administrative and troubleshooting tasks.Starting Price: $316 per user -
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SQL Defrag Manager
IDERA, an Idera, Inc. company
Automatically find and fix database index fragmentation. Database administrators for SQL Server need to maintain the high availability and performance of their databases. Key areas that dramatically affect the performance of SQL Server are indexes that are fragmented and out of cluster. SQL Defrag Manager is a unique solution for defragmenting indexes for SQL Server. It automates the time-consuming process of finding fragmented indexes based on policies for the targeted databases.Starting Price: $1,196 per instance -
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SQL Doctor
IDERA, an Idera, Inc. company
SQL Doctor helps database administrators to tune SQL Server performance, security, and disaster recovery via expert recommendations in physical, virtual, and cloud environments - including managed cloud databases. Unlike its competitors, it provides display health of all SQL Servers, generation of ready-to-run SQL scripts to optimize and undo optimization, limiting of analysis to specified databases, applications, and performance categories, and real-time, as-needed, and scheduled checkups.Starting Price: $500 per user -
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SQL Enterprise Job Manager
IDERA, an Idera, Inc. company
SQL Enterprise Job Manager helps database administrators to simplify the monitoring and management of SQL Server agent jobs across SQL Servers in physical, virtual, and cloud environments. Unlike its competition, it provides chaining of jobs to create automated workflows, configurable alert notifications for success and failure of jobs, automation of job scheduling, familiar calendar layout, predefined and custom filters to find specific jobs for analysis, and drill down to see alert settings, upcoming jobs, and history details.Starting Price: $796 per instance -
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SQL Inventory Manager
IDERA, an Idera, Inc. company
SQL Inventory Manager helps database administrators to manage SQL Server inventory and assets in physical, virtual, and cloud environments. Unlike its competition, it provides automatic discovery of SQL Server instances, databases, and analysis services in the network, protection against back level versions and missing security patches, confirmation that instance growth meets your license commitments, quick display of server details to determine license cost, monitor instance health, gathering of hardware, operating system, instance and database configuration details, pre-defined and customizable licensing, inventory, chargeback and health reports, and tags and filters to simplify organization of instances and databases.Starting Price: $2,556 for 10 instances -
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SQL Query Tuner
IDERA, an Idera, Inc. company
SQL Query Tuner helps database administrators to tune and profile SQL code for SQL Server. Unlike its competition, it provides automated SQL tuning and performance optimization suggestions with color-coded index analysis, database profiling of wait-time analysis for a single stored routine or an entire data source, SQL stress load testing to simulate a production environment with parallel users and executions over a specific period of time or execution cycle, and review of SQL execution and performance costs using explain plans.Starting Price: $400 per instance -
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SQL Secure
IDERA, an Idera, Inc. company
SQL Secure helps database administrators to manage SQL Server security in physical, virtual, and cloud environments - including managed cloud databases. Unlike its competition, it provides configurable data collection, customizable templates to satisfy audits for multiple regulatory guidelines, extensive security checks and audit rules, automated server registration process, and server group tagging.Starting Price: $1,036 per instance -
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SQL Workload Analysis
IDERA, an Idera, Inc. company
Monitor and diagnose detailed database wait states and application transactions. Problematic SQL queries can severely reduce the performance of SQL Server and the business-critical applications that it supports. With the SQL Workload Analysis add-on, continuously monitor and analyze server workload, leverage the simple user interface that focuses on wait states and application performance, and troubleshoot problematic SQL code from changes made to database applications. Perform real-time analysis with continuous SQL sampling intervals. Know instantly where databases are spending time. Quickly isolate slow SQL statements and drill down for actionable advice. Investigate historical query plan trends. Utilize automatic recommendations to improve query performance.Starting Price: $400 per instance -
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DB Change Manager
IDERA, an Idera, Inc. company
DB Change Manager helps database developers to automate, manage, and track complex schema changes for multiple database platforms. Unlike its competition, it provides unique automated schema compare and SQL synchronization with rollback feature, inspection and analysis of schema, data and configuration changes across environments, comprehensive data synchronization and change analysis, and a common interface to manage multiple relational database platforms.Starting Price: $1,622.40 per user (workstation) -
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DB Optimizer
IDERA, an Idera, Inc. company
DB Optimizer helps database administrators to tune and profile SQL code across database platforms. Unlike its competition, it provides automated SQL tuning and performance optimization suggestions with color-coded index analysis, database profiling of wait-time analysis for a single stored routine or an entire data source, SQL stress load testing to simulate a production environment with parallel users and executions over a specific period of time or execution cycle, and review of SQL execution and performance costs using explain plans.Starting Price: $572 per user (workstation_ -
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DB PowerStudio
IDERA, an Idera, Inc. company
Administer, manage changes, tune queries, and develop relational databases. Database professionals need to minimize the time and effort spent on the routine management and development of databases across the organization. To address this challenge, benefit from IDERA’s bundle of top tools for the management and development of multiple database platforms. Perform database administration. Automate and manage complex database schema changes. Automate SQL query tuning and profiling. Develop SQL code efficiently.Starting Price: $1,699.20 per user -
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Azure SQL Database
Microsoft
Part of the Azure SQL family, Azure SQL Database is the intelligent, scalable, relational database service built for the cloud. It’s evergreen and always up to date, with AI-powered and automated features that optimize performance and durability for you. Serverless compute and Hyperscale storage options automatically scale resources on demand, so you can focus on building new applications without worrying about storage size or resource management. Eliminate the complexity of configuring and managing high availability, tuning, backups and other database tasks with a fully managed SQL database. Accelerate your application development on the only cloud with evergreen SQL using the latest SQL Server capabilities, and never worry about updates, upgrades, or end of support again. Build modern apps your way with provisioned and serverless compute options.Starting Price: $0.5218 per vCore-hour -
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Dropbase
Dropbase
Centralize offline data, import files, process and clean up data. Export to a live database with 1 click. Streamline data workflows. Centralize offline data and make it accessible to your team. Bring offline files to Dropbase. Multiple formats. Any way you like. Process and format data. Add, edit, re-order, and delete processing steps. 1-click exports. Export to database, endpoints, or download code with 1 click. Instant REST API access. Query Dropbase data securely with REST API access keys. Onboard data where you need it. Combine and process datasets to fit the desired format or data model. No code. Process your data pipelines using a spreadsheet interface. Track every step. Flexible. Use a library of pre-built processing functions. Or write your own. 1-click exports. Export to database or generate endpoints with 1 click. Manage databases. Manage and databases and credentials.Starting Price: $19.97 per user per month -
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MatDeck
LabDeck
MatDeck is a universal, technical software for Mathematics, Science, Engineering, Chemistry, Coding, Databases and many other uses. Our software offers a complete Python IDE; thousands of mathematical functions; a drag and drop GUI Designer and various visualization tools, all embedded within a cutting-edge, live document for an inexpensive and professional computing environment.Starting Price: Free -
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ERBuilder
Softbuilder
ERBuilder Data Modeler is a GUI data modeling tool that allows developers to visualize, design, and model databases by using entity relationship diagrams and automatically generates the most popular SQL databases. Generate and share the data Model documentation with your team. Optimize your data model by using advanced features such as test data generation, schema compare, and schema synchronization.Starting Price: $49 -
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JackDB
JackDB
Write and execute queries in a fully interactive SQL editor. JackDB has everything you'd want in a database client, including: syntax highlighting, code formatting, and intelligent autocompletion. Snippets allow your most useful SQL queries to be saved and shared. Simply write and save any query in JackDB, and share the snippet publicly with your team. Whenever anyone updates a snippet, everyone gets access to its latest version. Security is our highest priority at JackDB. Roles are a very convenient and secure way to restrict database access to authorized users and provision new users with access to data sources. Explore everything in your database, not just tables and views. View your indexes, schemas, and other important system details such as tablespaces and user sessions.Starting Price: $49 per user per month -
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SAP SQL Anywhere
SAP
Run your business from anywhere with relational database management system (RDBMS) solutions from SAP SQL Anywhere. Enable secure, reliable data management for servers where no DBA is available and synchronization for tens of thousands of mobile devices, Internet of Things (IoT) systems, and remote environments. Deliver critical business data to remote offices and mobile devices for more accurate, real-time decision-making at the front lines of your business. Run mobile applications reliably and efficiently without on-site technical staff, giving mobile and remote workers an always on experience, even when they are offline. Streamline data maintenance tasks with built-in self-managing features that help users resolve issues quickly and efficiently. Protect and secure your data, even during data transmission and exchange, with powerful encryption features.Starting Price: $195 per license -
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HeidiSQL
HeidiSQL
HeidiSQL is free software, and has the aim to be easy to learn. "Heidi" lets you see and edit data and structures from computers running one of the database systems MariaDB, MySQL, Microsoft SQL, PostgreSQL and SQLite. Invented in 2002 by Ansgar, HeidiSQL belongs to the most popular tools for MariaDB and MySQL worldwide. Free for everyone, OpenSource. Connect to multiple servers in one window. Supported database systems: MariaDB, MySQL, MS SQL, PostgreSQL and SQLite. Connect to servers via commandline. Connect via SSH tunnel, or pass SSL settings. Create and edit tables, views, stored routines, triggers and scheduled events. Generate nice SQL-exports, compress these afterwards, or put them on the clipboard. Export from one server/database directly to another server/database. Manage user-privileges, import text-files, export table rows as CSV, HTML, XML, SQL, LaTeX, Wiki Markup and PHP Array. Browse and edit table-data using a comfortable grid.Starting Price: $0 -
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Huawei RDS
Huawei Cloud
RDS for MySQL is a reliable and scalable cloud database service. You can deploy databases within minutes and stay focused on application development. Say goodbye to stressful database O&M once and for all. You can create a MySQL database in minutes with just a few clicks. RDS for MySQL facilitates software and hardware deployment and helps you manage your databases, including installing patches, monitoring metrics, dynamically scaling up or down, and failing over if needed. With optimized kernel thresholds, RDS for MySQL excels at handling massive amounts of concurrent requests. It outperforms the MySQL community edition. RDS for MySQL uses implicit primary keys to ensure almost zero delay of primary/standby replication. No data is lost even when your database is heavily loaded. As your storage requirements grow, you can easily provision 1 TB of storage for read replicas on-the-fly with zero downtime.Starting Price: $0.08 per hour -
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Altova DatabaseSpy
Altova
The DatabaseSpy SQL editor features customizable SQL auto-completion to accelerate SQL query development. Execute queries and see immediate results in one or more windows that may be tabbed or stacked. DatabaseSpy supports asynchronous query execution, allowing multiple SQL queries to be processed in different windows at the same time, either queries to different servers or even multiple queries against the same server. DatabaseSpy includes support for SQL queries that contain parameters, also known as SQL Templates. Parameters can make a query much more flexible, for instance allowing users to easily test complex join statements with multiple values. The DatabaseSpy SQL Editor and result windows at the top left below show a query to report all orders of a specific product by a specific customer.Starting Price: €109 one-time payment -
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Upscene
Upscene Productions
Database design · database implementation · stored routine debuggers · test data generators · database auditing · data change logging · performance monitoring · data transfers · import and export of data · DBA tasks · reporting · performance testing · database release management. A fully featured test data generator tool: generates real-life-like data into your database or data files. The only comprehensive and up-to-date Firebird server monitoring tool available at the market. Database Workbench offers a single development environment for developing with multiple database engines. With database engine specific functionality, powerful tools and a consistent, clear and intuitive user interface, Database Workbench will increase your productivity from the moment you start using it.Starting Price: €149 per database workbench -
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EMS SQL Management Studio
EMS Software
EMS SQL Management Studio for PostgreSQL is a complete solution for PostgreSQL database administration and development. The single workbench provides you with must-have tools for managing PostgreSQL databases and objects, as well as for database design, migration, extraction, query building, data import and export, database comparison, and running service tasks. Get access to all databases and their objects from a single console and manage them with a user-friendly interface. You can create and modify all server and database objects, set necessary properties, and view detailed info in advanced visual editors. Transfer structure changes from development to production database automatically with Compare databases tool. Create ER diagrams for newly developed databases to quickly deploy them. Create database maintenance tasks with advanced options and let SQL Studio run them on a regular basis.Starting Price: $260 one-time payment -
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Xata
Xata
Xata is a combination of a relational database, an analytics engine, and a free-text search engine. All made simple by a spreadsheet-like UI and a single powerful data API, with granular security, zero-downtime migrations, subscriptions, ACID transactions, and caching built-in. If you don’t worry about servers when deploying your application, why should you worry about servers (or nodes, or clusters) when using a database service? The simple global RESTful API for inserting, querying, aggregating, and searching makes Xata the perfect companion for Serverless and No-Code/Low-Code development platforms. Xata allows you to iteratively build your database schema as you add sample data, all via a spreadsheet-like UI. You can add new tables, columns, data, and create queries and views. It then gives you code samples ready to be used in your application. This gives you flexibility as you develop and, as the application grows, the strict schema keeps your data safe and correct.Starting Price: $8 per unit per month -
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DbWrench
DbWrench
Makes creating and modifying databases quicker and easier. Streamlines many common database tasks. Supports many operating systems and databases in a single license. Use generated scripts to apply changes. Use ER diagrams to model, analyze and communicate your designs. Reverse engineer databases into our database designer in seconds. Our priority is to implement features that will save database developers time with their database design tasks. We use extensive testing and continuous release cycles to build a product users can rely on. Run DbWrench on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux, all with a single license. Run DbWrench with today's most popular database systems, and again, all with a single license. Edit database items directly in the diagram. Avoid navigating tree nodes and editing property sheets. Several ER notations to choose from, including Bachman, Barker and Information Engineering.Starting Price: $49 one-time payment -
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Materialize
Materialize
Materialize is a reactive database that delivers incremental view updates. We help developers easily build with streaming data using standard SQL. Materialize can connect to many different external sources of data without pre-processing. Connect directly to streaming sources like Kafka, Postgres databases, CDC, or historical sources of data like files or S3. Materialize allows you to query, join, and transform data sources in standard SQL - and presents the results as incrementally-updated Materialized views. Queries are maintained and continually updated as new data streams in. With incrementally-updated views, developers can easily build data visualizations or real-time applications. Building with streaming data can be as simple as writing a few lines of SQL.Starting Price: $0.98 per hour -
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Appwrite
Appwrite
Build your entire backend within minutes with just a few lines of code using the frameworks and languages you love. Allowing you to focus on design and innovation instead of tedious and repetitive backend tasks. Products Appwrite Cloud provides you with: - Authentication: 30+ login methods, support for teams, roles, and user labels - Databases: Never paused, fast in-memory caching, advanced permission models, relationships support - Storage: File encryption at rest and transit, built-in image transformation capabilities, advanced compression with WebP/Brotli support - Functions: Automatic deployment from GitHub - Messaging: SMS, email, and push notification support - Real-time: Unlimited subscriptions By utilizing Appwrites’ features, you save time and ensure your products are stable and secure for your end users. With Appwrite, you always own your data, so you never have to fear vendor lock-in.Starting Price: $15 per month, per member -
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PolarDB-X
Alibaba Cloud
PolarDB-X has been tried and tested in Tmall Double 11 shopping festivals, and has helped customers in industries such as finance, logistics, energy, e-commerce, and public service to address business challenges. Linearly increases storage space to provide petabyte-scale storage, making storage bottlenecks of standalone databases a thing of the past. Provides the massively parallel processing (MPP) capabilities to significantly improve the efficiency of complex analysis and queries on vast amounts of data. Provides extensive algorithms to distribute data across multiple storage nodes, effectively reducing the volume of data stored in a single table.Starting Price: $10,254.44 per year -
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PlanetScale
PlanetScale
PlanetScale brings you the fastest databases available in the cloud. Both our Postgres and Vitess databases deliver exceptional speed and reliability, with Vitess adding ultra scalability through horizontal sharding. Our blazing fast NVMe drives unlock unlimited IOPS, bringing data center performance to the cloud. We offer a range of deployment options to cover all of your security and compliance requirements — including bring your own cloud with PlanetScale Managed. In addition to Vitess and Postgres, PlanetScale offers Neki — sharded Postgres by the team behind Vitess — and Metal, the fastest way to run databases in AWS or GCP.Starting Price: $5 per month -
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dbForge Source Control
Devart
dbForge Source Control for SQL Server is a powerful add-in for SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) that enables version control within the familiar interface. Key Features: Source-control databases: shared vs dedicated database development model Version-control a SQL database working folder Manage database changes Resolve conflicts Undo uncommitted changes Track database changes Automate database development with the DevOps approach You can always find the latest version of the product on the official Devart website. The user-friendly interface of dbForge Source Control ensures quick adoption, improves processes, and supports database developers and managers in establishing effective DevOps practices for more efficient and accurate product delivery.Starting Price: $189.95
