Comparison
AddisDB vs DBeaver
The most widely used open-source database client, and the broadest engine support of anything on this page.
Engine breadth
How many database engines and data-file formats it can actually open.
DBeaver — Strong
The widest support here — 80+ engines in the Community Edition, and anything with a JDBC driver on top of that. If you have an obscure database, this is the tool most likely to open it.
AddisDB — Strong
95 engines and data-file formats, from Postgres and MySQL through Mongo, Redis, Cassandra and Neo4j to Snowflake, BigQuery, ClickHouse and local CSV/Parquet/GeoJSON. Every engine is on every plan, including the free one.
Cost & openness
What it costs to use for real work, and whether you can read the source.
DBeaver — Strong
Community Edition is free and Apache-2.0 — genuinely open source, commercial use included, no seat count. Paid tiers add features rather than engines: Lite around $113/user/year, Enterprise around $250/year, Ultimate around $500/year. Perpetual licences ended after 23.3.
AddisDB — Good
Free forever for databases on your own machine — the whole client, every engine, no account and no card. $49/year to reach databases that are not local; $99/user/year for teams; $299/user/year for SSO, audit log and RBAC. Source is not public.
Platform reach
Which operating systems and surfaces it runs on.
DBeaver — Good
Windows, macOS and Linux. It is an Eclipse/Java application, so it is heavier to start and looks less native than the Rust and Electron clients here — a real daily-use difference, not a benchmark quibble.
AddisDB — Strong
macOS, Windows and Linux as a native app, plus a CLI with a TUI and a VS Code extension that share the same core.
Production safety
What stands between you and the wrong statement on a production database.
DBeaver — Limited
Connections can be marked read-only and production connections can be colour-coded, which helps you notice. There is no statement classification stopping a destructive write before it runs in the Community Edition.
AddisDB — Strong
Connections can be marked read-only; statements are classified before they run, so an unqualified DELETE or a DROP is stopped rather than reported afterwards. A prod environment tag adds write guards, and row-count thresholds catch the statement that would hit more rows than you meant.
AI capability
What the AI does, what it costs, and where your schema and keys go.
DBeaver — Limited
An AI assistant exists but is a PRO feature, so the free edition most people use has none.
AddisDB — Strong
Plain-English to SQL, schema-aware, with the generated statement shown for you to edit before it runs. Bring your own provider key: it is stored in the OS credential store, calls go straight to your provider, and AI is included on the free tier because we are not the ones paying for the tokens.
Schema tooling
Diagrams, diffs, and getting a schema change from your laptop to production.
DBeaver — Good
ER diagrams in Community; schema compare and migration tooling are PRO. Mature and thorough where present.
AddisDB — Strong
ERD of tables and foreign keys, schema diff between databases, and a migration preview that shows the exact SQL plus the dangerous parts — dropped columns, rewrites, locks — before anything runs. Reads Drizzle Kit and Prisma changes too.
The scoreboard
DBeaver matches or beats AddisDB on: Engine breadth, Cost & openness.
AddisDB comes out ahead on: Platform reach, Production safety, AI capability, Schema tooling.
Which one to pick
Pick DBeaver if…
You need an engine nobody else supports, you want the source to be open, or you want a capable client that costs nothing for commercial use — DBeaver Community is the most generous offer in this table.
Pick AddisDB if…
You spend your time on a handful of engines and want the client to actively stop a destructive statement rather than run it and tell you afterwards.
About this comparison
Ratings and prices were checked against each vendor's own pages on 2026-08-11. We wrote this and we make one of the tools in it, so read it as what it is — and if something here is wrong or out of date, tell us and we will correct it.