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Comment by drewp | Hacker News Reader

Are there comparisons to related projects somewhere?

E.g. I've use DBeaver before. Is there some reason I should try Outerbase next time?

I put together this in related to our cloud offering, it's still somewhat relevant for Outerbase Studio even though some features are different:

https://www.outerbase.com/blog/the-5-best-database-managemen...

Our goal is to make data accessible through good user experiences and focus. Whether that is being able to spin up a local database directly from the app, or simply making the query experience as intuitive as possible, we are really pushing on making the database usable.

That page mentions support for noSQL databases, but it looks like this open source version only supports SQL. Just want to call that out for clarification.

Is the long term intent eventually to have parity between the open source desktop app and the cloud version (at least in terms of database type support)?

Correct. Our goal is to have all of our data sources across all Outerbase products powered by our SDK - https://github.com/outerbase/sdk. Currently the Studio product is not powered by it but our cloud and other offerings are.

Don't think DBeaver supports libsql databases? I think the goal here is to be able to working with Turso / Cloudflare D1 databases etc.

Yeah that's been another big part of this too, making sure it's a simple way to support these new and lightweight but powerful databases!

it does now: https://github.com/dbeaver/dbeaver-jdbc-libsql

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