HeidiSQL vs. RazorSQL vs. SQLiteStudio vs. dbExpress Drivers 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.

It's free of charge for everybody, for any purpose (including commercial). It's safe, as anyone can review the source code. The SQL Editor window assists users with SQL syntax hints & highlighting, provides pretty-print code for matter, marks syntax errors. You can Ctrl+click on table mentioned in SQL query to open that table (or index, or trigger, or view). You can execute SQL statements that refer to multiple databases within a single query, thanks to a transparent database attaching mechanism built into the SQL Editor of SQLiteStudio. You can implement your own collation sequences (i.e. algorithms for comparing 2 values, that could be used in ORDER BY clause, etc). There is a portable distribution, no need to install it just download the package, decompress and run and no administrator rights are required.