Active Admin vs pgcli: What are the differences?

What is Active Admin? The administration framework for Ruby on Rails applications. Active Admin is a Ruby on Rails framework for creating elegant backends for website administration.

What is pgcli? Postgres CLI with autocompletion and syntax highlighting. This is a postgres client that does auto-completion and syntax highlighting.

Active Admin and pgcli can be primarily classified as "Database" tools.

Some of the features offered by Active Admin are:

• Global Navigation
• Scopes
• Index Styles

On the other hand, pgcli provides the following key features:

• Auto-completion as you type for SQL keywords as well as tables and columns in the database.
• Syntax highlighting using Pygments.
• Smart-completion (enabled by default) will suggest context-sensitive completion.

Active Admin and pgcli are both open source tools. It seems that Active Admin with 8.51K GitHub stars and 3.01K forks on GitHub has more adoption than pgcli with 8.01K GitHub stars and 365 GitHub forks.