2025 BairesDev
Developers' Choice Awards

Best Database
Management Tool

And the award goes to…

DBeaver

Free, open-source database client supporting SQL, NoSQL, and cloud data warehouses.

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About the Awards

Our engineers chose DBeaver for its universal database support and zero-cost barrier to entry. They valued the single interface that works across every database engine they touch, built-in ER diagrams and data export tools that eliminate manual work.

Developer Insights

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DBeaver gives me a single, clean interface for practically every database I touch, lets me hop between SQL dialects without friction.

Monica Dodla

Data Analytics Engineer, BairesDev

10 years of experience

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Easy to use, different options to organize the DB connections, works with different DBs — relational, NoSQL, and others.

Rodrigo Dias De Azevedo

Senior Backend Engineer, BairesDev

25 years of experience

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DBeaver stands out for its versatility. It supports nearly every database you can think of and makes switching between them effortless.

Mersy Ruiz

Database Administrator, BairesDev

11 years of experience

Honorable Mentions

SSMS

Microsoft's official SQL Server IDE with comprehensive management features and tight Azure integration.

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I like the way it displays data and builds queries with autocomplete features. Its profiler tool helps identify how our applications interact with the database.

Rafael Cisneros

.NET Engineer, BairesDev

8 years of experience

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DataGrip

JetBrains database IDE with schema-aware refactoring and intelligent query completion.

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DataGrip is the best management tool. It integrates AI and quick autocomplete better than any other.

Federico Emiliani

Tech Lead, BairesDev

17 years of experience

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About our Voters.

4K+

Full-Time Engineers

2M+

Annual Applications

10+

Average Years of Experience

We're a distributed team of over 4,000 full-time, senior-level developers. Every year, over 2 million applications are reviewed to identify the top engineering talent who join BairesDev.

This gives us unparalleled technical coverage and depth. Our teams span over 100 technologies, and we've used that expertise across 1,400+ projects since 2009.

For this award, votes in each category were cast by developers with direct, hands-on experience using these tools. These nominations came directly from senior practitioners building software at scale.

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