In 2012 an Eclipse plugin version was released - since then DBeaver has become one of the most popular database extensions for Eclipse (top 50-60 among all Eclipse extensions). In the same year, the official web site was founded and the community support forum (now moved to GitHub) was created. It quickly became a popular tool in the open-source community. The first official release was in 2011 on Freecode. It was supposed to be free and open-source with a good-looking and convenient UI and to include frequently used features for database developers. A closed-source enterprise edition of DBeaver is distributed under a commercial license.ĭBeaver was started in 2010 as a hobby project. The community edition (CE) of DBeaver is a free and open source software that is distributed under the Apache License. This is a desktop application written in Java and based on Eclipse platform. It provides a plug-in architecture (based on the Eclipse plugins architecture) that allows users to modify much of the application's behavior to provide database-specific functionality or features that are database-independent.
It provides an editor that supports code completion and syntax highlighting.
For other databases ( NoSQL) it uses proprietary database drivers. For relational databases it uses the JDBC application programming interface (API) to interact with databases via a JDBC driver. DBeaver is a SQL client software application and a database administration tool.
