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tabularis

<p align="center"> <strong>Tabularis is an open-source desktop SQL workspace with 3 built-in database drivers and 21 shipped plugins, including DuckDB, ClickHouse, Redis and Firestore.<br /> Its built-in MCP server lets Claude, Cursor and Devin (formerly Windsurf) read your schema and run queries in the same app you already use.</strong> </p> <p align="center"> <strong>README:</strong> <a href="./README.md">English</a> | <a href="./README.it.md">Italiano</a> | <a href="./README.es.md">Español</a> | <a href="./README.zh-CN.md">中文</a> | <a href="./README.fr.md">Français</a> | <a href="./README.de.md">Deutsch</a> | <a href="./README.ja.md">日本語</a> | <a href="./README.ru.md">Русский</a> | <a href="./README.tl.md">Tagalog</a> | <a href="./README.ko.md">한국어</a> | <a href="./README.pt-BR.md">Português (Brasil)</a> </p> <p align="center">

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</p> <p align="center"> <a href="https://snapcraft.io/tabularis"><img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/snap-tabularis-blue?logo=snapcraft" alt="Snap Store" /></a> <a href="https://flatpark.org/apps/dev.tabularis.Tabularis/"><img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/flatpak-tabularis-4A90D9?logo=flatpak&logoColor=white" alt="Flatpak (Flatpark)" /></a> <a href="https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/tabularis-bin"><img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/AUR-tabularis--bin-1793D1?logo=archlinux&logoColor=white" alt="AUR" /></a> <a href="https://winstall.app/apps/Debba.Tabularis"><img src="https://img.shields.io/winget/v/Debba.Tabularis?label=WinGet&logo=windows&color=0078D4" alt="WinGet" /></a> </p> <div align="center"> <img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/TabularisDB/website/main/public/img/overview.gif" alt="Tabularis" /> </div>

Download

winget install Debba.Tabularis                                   # Windows
brew install --cask tabularis  # macOS
sudo snap install tabularis                                      # Linux

Or grab an installer directly:

The app UI is available in English, Italian, Spanish, Chinese (Simplified), French, German, Japanese, Russian, Tagalog and Portuguese (Brazilian).

Discord: Join our Discord server to talk with the maintainers, share feedback, and get help from the community.

Table of Contents

• Why tabularis?
  • Database support
• Installation
  • Windows
  • macOS
  • Linux (Snap)
  • Linux (Flatpak)
  • Linux (AppImage)
  • Arch Linux (AUR)
• Updates
• Discord
• Changelog
• Features
  • Connection Management
  • Database Explorer
  • SQL Editor
  • SQL Notebooks
  • Keyboard Shortcuts
  • Visual Query Builder
  • Visual EXPLAIN
  • Data Grid
  • Logging
  • Plugin System
• Configuration Storage
  • AI Features (Optional)
  • MCP Server: AI Agent Integration
• Tech Stack
• Development
• Roadmap
• Contributing
• Sponsors and supporters
• Origin Story
• License

Why tabularis?

| | tabularis | DBeaver CE | TablePlus | Beekeeper Studio | |---|---|---|---|---| | License | Apache 2.0, free | Apache 2.0, free (Pro is paid) | Commercial | GPLv3 (paid editions) | | SQL notebooks (SQL + Markdown cells, cross-cell variables, charts) | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | | Built-in MCP server for AI agents | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | | Plugins in any language (JSON-RPC over stdio) | ✅ | Java/Eclipse plugins | JavaScript plugins | ❌ | | AI text-to-SQL with local models (Ollama) | ✅ | Cloud-based AI assistant | ❌ | ❌ | | Visual EXPLAIN with interactive plan graphs | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | | Databases out of the box | 3 built-in + 21 official plugins | 100+ | 20+ | ~10 |

Comparison as of June 2026; features in other tools may have changed since. If you need dozens of drivers, use DBeaver. Tabularis focuses on doing a few databases well.

Database support

PostgreSQL, MySQL/MariaDB and SQLite ship built in. Everything else is a plugin. The built-in PostgreSQL driver is deprecated in favour of the PostgreSQL plugin, which Tabularis installs automatically. Current coverage, mirroring the driver & plugin coverage on the website:

ClickHouse (shipped), Cloudflare D1 (shipped), Cloudflare D1 (HTTP API) (shipped), DM / Dameng (shipped), DuckDB (shipped), DynamoDB (shipped), Elasticsearch (shipped), Firestore (shipped), IBM Db2 (shipped), IBM Informix (shipped), LibSQL / Turso (shipped), MongoDB (shipped), MongoDB Atlas (shipped), Oracle (shipped), Redis (Go) (shipped), Redis (Rust) (shipped), SQL Server (shipped), CSV Folder (shipped), Google Sheets (shipped), HackerNews (shipped), Google BigQuery (claimed), Meilisearch (claimed), Amazon Redshift (scoped), CockroachDB (scoped), TiDB (scoped), Snowflake (coming soon), Cassandra (open), Etcd (open), Firebird (open), ScyllaDB (open), SQL Anywhere (open), SurrealDB (open), Trino / Presto (open).

Shipped drivers are installable from the plugin registry. Everything else is on the bounty board: claim one, sponsor one, or request a database.

Installation

Windows

WinGet (Recommended)

winget install Debba.Tabularis

Direct Download

Download the installer from the Releases page and run it:

tabularis_x.x.x_x64-setup.exe

Follow the on-screen instructions to complete the installation.

macOS

Homebrew (Recommended)

brew install --cask tabularis

Direct Download

Builds from v0.13.1 onward are signed and notarized by Apple, so they open without any extra steps.

The notes below only apply to older releases (before v0.13.1) downloaded directly:

• You need to allow accessibility access (Privacy & Security) to the tabularis app. If you are upgrading and already have tabularis on the allowed list, remove it manually before accessibility access can be granted to the new version.
• You may need to run xattr -c /Applications/tabularis.app after copying the app to the Applications directory.

Linux (Snap)

sudo snap install tabularis
sudo snap connect tabularis:password-manager-service   # allow keychain access for saved credentials

The password-manager-service interface is not auto-connected by the Snap Store yet. Without it, saving a connection fails with a Platform secure storage failure error.

Linux (Flatpak)

flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flatpark https://dl.flatpark.org/flatpark.flatpakrepo
flatpak install flatpark dev.tabularis.Tabularis

Linux (AppImage)

Download the .AppImage file from the Releases page, make it executable and run it:

chmod +x tabularis_x.x.x_amd64.AppImage
./tabularis_x.x.x_amd64.AppImage

Arch Linux (AUR)

yay -S tabularis-bin

Updates

Tabularis checks for updates automatically on startup and notifies you when a new version is available. You can also download the latest version directly from the Releases page.

Discord

Join our Discord server to talk with the maintainers, share feedback, suggest features, or get help from the community.

Changelog

Features

Connection Management

Full reference on tabularis.dev →

• Support for MySQL/MariaDB, PostgreSQL (with multi-schema support) and SQLite, with multi-database selection per connection.
• Save, manage, and clone connection profiles, with optional secure password storage in the system Keychain.
• SSH Tunneling with automatic readiness detection.
• Per-Connection Appearance: override the icon