HeidiSQL vs. KS DB Merge Tools vs. MySQL Migration Toolkit vs. dbForge Data Generator for MySQL Comparison Chart

HeidiSQL is free software, and has the aim to be easy to learn. "Heidi" lets you see and edit data and structures from computers running one of the database systems MariaDB, MySQL, Microsoft SQL, PostgreSQL and SQLite. Invented in 2002 by Ansgar, HeidiSQL belongs to the most popular tools for MariaDB and MySQL worldwide. Free for everyone, OpenSource. Connect to multiple servers in one window. Supported database systems: MariaDB, MySQL, MS SQL, PostgreSQL and SQLite. Connect to servers via commandline. Connect via SSH tunnel, or pass SSL settings. Create and edit tables, views, stored routines, triggers and scheduled events. Generate nice SQL-exports, compress these afterwards, or put them on the clipboard. Export from one server/database directly to another server/database. Manage user-privileges, import text-files, export table rows as CSV, HTML, XML, SQL, LaTeX, Wiki Markup and PHP Array. Browse and edit table-data using a comfortable grid.

MySQL Migration Toolkit is a software pack to convert any data source to MySQL and vice versa. The product has high performance because it does not use ODBC or any other middleware software. Command line support allows to script, automation and scheduling the conversion process. MySQL Migration Toolkit allows users to do the indirect conversion and get more control over the process. Following this way, the program converts data into a local MySQL dump file instead of moving it to MySQL server directly. This dump file contains MySQL statements to create all tables and to fill them with the data. Click here to learn how to import dump file into MySQL database. Once you stored conversion settings into your profile you can run the program in Quick Launch mode. Just launch Windows Explorer and double-click on the profile description file with left mouse button. It will launch the appropriate conversion process loading necessary settings from the specified profile.