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Best MySQL IDE You Can Find

dbForge Studio for MySQL is a high-end IDE for MySQL and MariaDB, a comprehensive solution designed to make nearly every aspect of work with your databases quick and effortless. With its clean and intuitive GUI, the Studio proved to be a perfect fit for beginners and seasoned pros alike — and the wealth of its features covers the following tasks with ease and precision.

  • SQL Development
  • Database Design
  • Data Management
  • Database Operations
  • Database Administration
  • Data Analysis & Reporting
  • Automation
  • Version Control

Here's everything you need to work with MySQL databases most effectively

  • Database Design
  • Data Management
  • Database Operations
  • Administration
  • Analysis & Reporting
  • Automation

Database Design

Designing databases for a new project or altering your existing database structures has never been easier. dbForge Studio has everything it takes to help you keep up with the growth of your database-centered software and the ever-evolving requirements for data storage and management.

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Data Management

dbForge Studio will easily become the ultimate MySQL viewer for your data, helping you ensure its integrity, security, and accessibility. With the Studio, you get an inclusive set of features aimed at storing, organizing, editing, and migrating datasets of any size with next to no effort.

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Database Management and Operations

dbForge Studio makes you just as fluent in managing, migrating, and deploying your entire MySQL and MariaDB databases in different environments. Streamlining database operations is one of the most vital steps towards easy optimization and scaling of your entire product development.

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Database Administration

Your routine database administration becomes an extremely easy task with the Studio at hand. Its variegated toolset provides you with full control over server configuration and performance tuning, session monitoring, service management, and table maintenance.

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Data Analysis & Reporting

The Studio will help you aggregate any amounts of data and scrutinize it to identify possible trends, patterns, and anomalies. Thus you can get actionable insights that can be translated into compelling data reports.

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Automation

Last but not least, a huge bulk of the Studio's functionality offers extensive automation options. Using the standard command-line interface, you can easily automate recurring database operations to save your precious time and sharpen your focus on things that require your attention the most.

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dbForge AI Assistant: AI-driven support for complex SQL tasks

If you're into using AI for your daily work, you might just as well use it to completely transform your experience of SQL development—and our dbForge AI Assistant will help you with that!

Context-aware query generation

You don't have to write complex queries yourself. You can have dbForge AI Assistant do it for you. What's more, you can attach a required database, and the Assistant will be able to get more context and generate queries that are relevant to that particular database. After that, you will be able to double-check those queries, alter them in SQL Editor, if necessary, and run them against your database right away.

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Conversion of natural language to SQL

Even without the context, you can input a request in any language and have the Assistant translate it into an SQL query. Quick, easy, and smart, this feature simplifies interactions with databases for analysts and non-technical users who are not well-versed in the subtleties of SQL.

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Query optimization

You can ask the Assistant to optimize manually written queries. After all, if there's a way to make a query less resource-consuming, why not make it so? Simply show a query to the Assistant and get it back in a few moments, rewritten and optimized for top performance.

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SQL explanations

The Assistant can also help you understand SQL queries by giving you clause-by-clause breakdowns of your code with detailed explanations. This will prove especially useful if you are still just getting acquainted with SQL—or if you are a non-technical user who wants to operate data with flexibility and convenience.

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SQL troubleshooting

You can also have the Assistant analyze and fix queries of any size and complexity. To do that, just enter a query, and if something is wrong with it, the Assistant will pinpoint the problematic place and give explanations and actionable suggestions for improvement. In other words, you will be able to troubleshoot your queries in no time.

In case the execution of your query encounters an error, you may just as well ask the Assistant to explain what's wrong and give suggestions to fix it.

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AI chat

Finally, you are always free to chat with dbForge AI Assistant on every SQL-related topic. After all, it isn't called the Assistant for nothing, and it will deliver all the required guidance, best practices, and other information in real time. You can even ask anything you'd like to know about the dbForge tool you are currently using, and the Assistant, well-integrated with our documentation center, will guide you through every feature and use case.

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Run dbForge Studio for MySQL on the operating system of your choice

Windows

dbForge Studio for MySQL is compatible with Microsoft Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows 10, and Windows 11.

macOS

The Studio is available on macOS Monterey (12), Big Sur (11), Catalina (10.15), Mojave (10.14), and High Sierra (10.13).

Linux

Linux

When it comes to Linux distributions, you can run the Studio on Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL).

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Your most versatile cross-platform MySQL IDE

dbForge Studio for MySQL delivers a rich feature set to meet the needs of nearly everyone who deals with databases. Whatever your role is, the Studio will prove invaluable in your daily work.

  • Software Developer
  • Database Developer
  • Architect
  • DBA
  • Analyst
  • DevOps Engineer
  • Faster query writing and database design
    2X-4X
    Faster query writing and database design
    Everything you need to level up the speed and precision of your SQL coding and database modeling is right here, in an easy-to-use toolkit.
  • Productivity in routine database administration
    +30%
    Productivity in routine database administration
    Our users report a minimum 30% productivity growth when it comes to carrying out administration tasks with the Studio at hand.
  • Flexibility in database management
    +100%
    Flexibility in database management
    The Studio has everything to help you and your teammates create, deploy, manage, and safeguard your MySQL and MariaDB databases with ease.
+25%
Overall team performance in data management
dbForge Studio for MySQL is an excellent solution for both individual users and entire teams operating with databases and actual data.
2X-4X
Faster query writing and database design
Everything you need to level up the speed and precision of your SQL coding and database modeling is right here, in an easy-to-use toolkit.
+30%
Productivity in routine database administration
Our users report a minimum 30% productivity growth when it comes to carrying out administration tasks with the Studio at hand.
+100%
Flexibility in database management
The Studio has everything to help you and your teammates create, deploy, manage, and safeguard your MySQL and MariaDB databases with ease.
  • Database developer
    50%
    Time saved on routine database deployment
    According to our clients, their database deployment time gets reduced by an average of 50%. We're all about saving your precious time.
  • Database DevOps
    100%
    Effective administration of databases
    The Studio will help you configure MySQL, manage users, track processes in your databases, and perform table maintenance.
  • Database Administrator
    +20%
    Faster data management and analysis
    The Studio's robust productivity features will help you get your routine data-related tasks done much faster and with less effort.
100%
Accuracy in SQL coding and database design
dbForge Studio for MySQL is your all-encompassing solution for writing clean SQL code and modeling new databases on diagrams.
50%
Time saved on routine database deployment
According to our clients, their database deployment time gets reduced by an average of 50%. We're all about saving your precious time.
+100%
Effective administration of databases
The Studio will help you configure MySQL, manage users, track processes in your databases, and perform table maintenance.
+20%
Faster data management and analysis
The Studio's robust productivity features will help you get your routine data-related tasks done much faster and with less effort.
  • Daily productivity in database management
    +80%
    Daily productivity in database management
    dbForge Studio is your easiest and safest way to modify, compare, synchronize, migrate, and backup MySQL and MariaDB databases.
  • Automation of recurring database-related tasks
    100%
    Automation of recurring database-related tasks
    You can use the command line to automate database comparison and sync tasks, backups, import and export operations, and much more.
  • Database integrity with efficient administration
    100%
    Database integrity with efficient administration
    Finally, the Studio will help you manage users and permissions, keep track of server sessions, and perform table maintenance.
2X+
Faster database design and SQL development
You can speed up your SQL coding with context-aware completion, versatile formatting, and syntax validation at your service.
+80%
Daily productivity in database management
dbForge Studio is your easiest and safest way to modify, compare, synchronize, migrate, and backup MySQL and MariaDB databases.
100%
Automation of recurring database-related tasks
You can use the command line to automate database comparison and sync tasks, backups, import and export operations, and much more.
100%
Database integrity with efficient administration
Finally, the Studio will help you manage users and permissions, keep track of server sessions, and perform table maintenance.
  • Versatility and security in data management
    100%
    Versatility and security in data management
    dbForge Studio is your ultimate MySQL viewer. You can inspect, edit, migrate, backup, and analyze your data in the most effortless way.
  • Reliable and effective disaster recovery features
    100%
    Reliable and effective disaster recovery features
    Speaking of backups, you no longer have to worry about potential data loss. The Studio will help you set up automated backups in no time.
  • Database Administrator
    50%
    Time saved on database deployment
    Our clients say that the Studio helps them cut their database deployment time in half. You can achieve the same results with ease.
2X+
Faster design and development of databases
dbForge Studio will give your productivity a dramatic boost with its visual database design tools and SQL coding assistance features.
100%
Versatility and security in data management
You can view, edit, migrate, backup, and analyze MySQL and MariaDB data in the most effortless way with dbForge Studio at hand.
100%
Reliable and effective disaster recovery features
Speaking of backups, you no longer have to worry about potential data loss. The Studio will help you set up automated backups in no time.
50%
Time saved on database deployment
Our clients say that the Studio helps them cut their database deployment time in half. You can achieve the same results with ease.
  • Growth of DBA's productivity in routine database administration
    +30%
    Productivity growth in routine database administration
    Actually, 30% is the minimum reported by our clients in their success stories. In quite a few cases, DBAs claimed to get a whopping 150% boost once they adopted the Studio for their daily needs.
  • Flexible toolset that makes all operations with data much easier
    100%
    Flexible toolset that makes all operations with data much easier
    dbForge Studio simplifies data management in every way, from the basic operations like viewing and editing to more complex things like aggregation, analysis, and migration of data to different environments.
2X-4X
Faster construction and effective optimization of SQL queries
dbForge Studio for MySQL delivers a set of powerhouse tools to help you write and optimize SQL queries. These tools include IntelliSense-like code completion, instant syntax validation, and a smart Query Profiler.
+30%
Growth of DBA's productivity in routine database administration
Actually, 30% is the minimum reported by our clients in their success stories. In quite a few cases, DBAs claimed to get a whopping 150% boost once they adopted the Studio for their daily needs.
100%
Flexible toolset that makes all operations with data much easier
dbForge Studio simplifies data management in every way, from the basic operations like viewing and editing to more complex things like aggregation, analysis, and migration of data to different environments.
  • Complete solution to handle data management
    1
    Complete solution to handle data management
    The Studio has every tool you might need to view, edit, migrate, and analyze MySQL and MariaDB data in the most convenient way.
  • Faster SQL coding and visual query building
    2X+
    Faster SQL coding and visual query building
    You can write queries in SQL or design them visually, on diagrams, with no coding whatsoever. Either way, you'll get to do it much faster.
  • Streamlined operations with databases
    100%
    Streamlined operations with databases
    The Studio was designed to make database management easier than ever with extensive command-line automation of routine tasks.
+20%
Efficiency in data analysis and reporting
dbForge Studio for MySQL helps you aggregate, process, and scrutinize your data with ease, summing your findings up with compelling visual reports.
1
Complete solution to handle data management
The Studio has every tool you might need to view, edit, migrate, and analyze MySQL and MariaDB data in the most convenient way.
2X+
Faster SQL coding and visual query building
You can write queries in SQL or design them visually, on diagrams, with no coding whatsoever. Either way, you'll get to do it much faster.
100%
Streamlined operations with databases
The Studio was designed to make database management easier than ever with extensive command-line automation of routine tasks.
  • Extensive CLI-powered automation of multiple database operations
    100%
    Extensive CLI-powered automation of multiple database operations
    You can use the command line to automate a wide range of recurring operations, such as database comparison and synchronization, data import and export, generation of test data, and much more.
  • Reliability, flexibility, and security in routine data management
    100%
    Reliability, flexibility, and security in routine data management
    The Studio will help you ensure 24/7 availability, security, and high performance of your MySQL and MariaDB databases. Everything you might need for data management is also here, always at hand.
1
Single integrated solution for all database-related tasks in MySQL and MariaDB
dbForge Studio for MySQL is a multifeatured IDE that was designed to help you solve nearly every database-related task at hand. The Studio's automation capabilities make it even more special.
100%
Extensive CLI-powered automation of multiple database operations
You can use the command line to automate a wide range of recurring operations, such as database comparison and synchronization, data import and export, generation of test data, and much more.
100%
Reliability, flexibility, and security in routine data management
The Studio will help you ensure 24/7 availability, security, and high performance of your MySQL and MariaDB databases. Everything you might need for data management is also here, always at hand.
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"dbForge Studio for MySQL has been the most effective database tool supporting the design, architecture, development, administration and debugging of our next-generation CRM system. There is nothing else like it on the market. I do think dbForge is hands down the best IDE for MySQL. It's a fantastic tool."
David Allen,
Director of Development
Creative Memories
"We became 25% more efficient as we saved 2 FTE hours per day, which we re-allocated to project work. In most cases, about 30% of the time spent on a project is database work, and we have seen most of that work cut in half. This increase in efficiency has a big impact across many areas that depend on IT to deliver results."
Bob Guzek,
IT Manager at Creative Memories
Allspoke LTD
"Easy to use IDE with an all-in-one approach. Faster deployments and better DB coding."
Mark Stratton,
CTO/Director at Allspoke LTD

Awards and recognition

dbForge Studio for MySQL has been consistently recognized for quality, reliability, and practical value delivered under a sleek and intuitive user interface.
Leader Winter 2025
User First Innovation 2025
Crozdesk Quality Choice 2024
G2 High Performer Winter 2023-2024
Capterra Shortlist
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