Tabularis
Tabularis is an open-source desktop SQL workspace with 3 built-in database drivers and 30 shipped driver plugins, including DuckDB, ClickHouse, Redis and Firestore. Its built-in MCP server lets Claude, Cursor and Devin (formerly Windsurf) read your schema and run queries in the same app you already use.
Download
winget install Debba.Tabularis # Windows
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), Chinese (Traditional), French, German, Japanese, Russian, Korean, Tagalog, Portuguese (Brazilian) and Vietnamese.
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Table of Contents
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 + 30 driver plugins | 100+ | 20+ | ~10 |
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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. The built-in PostgreSQL driver is deprecated in favour of the PostgreSQL plugin, which Tabularis installs automatically. Current coverage, mirroring the driver & plugin coverage on the website:
Shipped
This is the beginning of the README. Read the rest at the original. Read the full README ↗
