Tabularis

Tabularis is an open source desktop SQL workspace. PostgreSQL, MySQL and MariaDB, and SQLite are built in, and a plugin system covers more than fifteen others including DuckDB, ClickHouse, Redis, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, DynamoDB and Firestore, with more claimed on a public bounty board.

The built-in MCP server is what sets it apart from older clients. Claude, Cursor and Devin read your schema and run queries inside the same application you already have open, so an agent works against the connection you configured rather than one you set up twice.

The rest of the workspace is aimed at people who spend their day reading query output.

• SQL notebooks: SQL and markdown cells with cross-cell variables and charts.
• Visual EXPLAIN: interactive plan graphs for working out where a query goes wrong.
• Database explorer: browse tables, columns, keys, indexes, views and routines, with inline editing and an interactive ER diagram.
• Connection management: saved and cloned profiles, system keychain password storage, SSH tunneling and per-connection icons and colors.
• Plugins in any language: drivers speak JSON-RPC over stdio, so Go, Rust or anything else works.
• Local AI: optional text-to-SQL against models running on Ollama.

Installers cover Windows, macOS and Linux through WinGet, Homebrew, Snap, Flatpak, AppImage and the AUR, with signed and notarized macOS builds and an interface translated into ten languages. The maintainers are candid about scope and suggest DBeaver for anyone who needs dozens of drivers; Tabularis aims at doing a few databases well.