tabularis

Download

winget install Debba.Tabularis                                   # Windows
brew tap TabularisDB/tabularis && 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 and Tagalog.

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

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 + 13 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 — current coverage (mirroring the driver & plugin coverage on the website):

ClickHouse (shipped), Cloudflare D1 (shipped), DM / Dameng (shipped), DuckDB (shipped), Firestore (shipped), IBM Db2 (shipped), IBM Informix (shipped), Redis (shipped), CSV Folder (shipped), Google Sheets (shipped), HackerNews (shipped), Google BigQuery (claimed), LibSQL / Turso (claimed), Meilisearch (claimed), MongoDB (claimed), Oracle (claimed), SQL Server (claimed), Amazon Redshift (scoped), CockroachDB (scoped), TiDB (scoped), DynamoDB (coming soon), Snowflake (coming soon), Cassandra (open), Elasticsearch (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)

To add our tap, run:

brew tap TabularisDB/tabularis

Then install:

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

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 (Lucide, emoji, or custom image) and accent color of each saved connection.

Database Explorer

Full reference on tabularis.dev →

• Tree View: Browse tables, columns, keys, indexes, views, and stored routines — with inline editing from the sidebar.
• ER Diagram: Interactive Entity-Relationship visualization (pan, zoom, layout) with selective table diagram generation.
• Context Actions: Show data, count rows, modify schema, duplicate/delete tables.
• SQL Dump & Import: Export and restore databases with a single flow.

SQL Editor

Full reference on tabularis.dev →

• Monaco Editor with syntax highlighting and auto-completion, in a tabbed interface with isolated connections per tab and resizable split view.
• Multi-Statement Execution: Run All, Run Selected, or pick individual queries — results appear in separate tabs with independent pagination.
• Smart Query Splitting: Correctly handles stored procedures, functions, and $$-delimited blocks.
• Saved Queries and an AI assist overlay directly in the editor.

SQL Notebooks

Full reference on tabularis.dev →

• Multi-Cell Workspace: Combine SQL and Markdown cells in a single document, with inline results and bar/line/pie charts.
• Cross-Cell Variables: Reference results from other cells with {{cellName.columnName}}, plus global {{$paramName}} parameters.
• Run All: Sequential execution with stop-on-error option and completion summary.
• Persistence & Export: Auto-saved as .tabularis-notebook files; export as HTML, CSV, or JSON.
• Outline panel, drag & d