Data Director
Cross-Platform Database Management with DBeaver
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Save time and effort as you rummage through large quantities of data.
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Governing and taking care of databases is a specialized task that requires special system administrators who are commonly known as Database Administrators (DBAs). While their role encompasses all aspects of maintaining data integrity within an organization, some of it overlaps with the duties of a system administrator.
To save yourself time and effort when you are called to administer databases, you can use a graphical database management tool. There’s no dearth of such tools, and some databases have their own in-house versions. What sets DBeaver apart is that it works across platforms and supports a wide variety of database servers. Whether you are using relational databases like PostgreSQL and MariaDB, Hadoop-based ones like Apache Hive, graph databases like Neo4j, or even embedded ones like Firebird and SQLite, DBeaver can manage them all as well as several others (Figure 1). Basically if your database server has a JDBC driver, you can hook it up with DBeaver.
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