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Beekeeper Studio vs DBeaver Community: catalog facts
Beekeeper Studio	DBeaver Community
Freemium Free to download with no sign-up. Paid editions add features such as encrypted workspaces…	Freemium The Community edition is free and open source under the Apache 2.0 licence. DBeaver PRO…
Windows, macOS, Linux	Windows, macOS, Linux
Clean, modern interface that is genuinely quicker to work in Same features on Windows, macOS and Linux	More than a hundred drivers out of the box, and anything with JDBC or ODBC SQL editor with completion, plus a spreadsheet-style data editor
Some features are paid and are source-available rather than open source Electron, so start-up and memory use are higher than a native client	Eclipse-based and heavy; start-up is slow NoSQL and cloud-specific databases are reserved for the paid edition
Downloadable app	Downloadable app
Open source	Open source
License: GPL-3.0	License: Apache-2.0
No account needed	No account needed
Works offline	Works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 21, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 21, 2026

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