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pgAdmin vs Postico: What are the differences?
What is pgAdmin? Administration and development platform for PostgreSQL. pgAdmin is the leading graphical Open Source management, development and administration tool for PostgreSQL.
What is Postico? A modern PostgreSQL client for OS X. Postico provides an easy to use interface, making Postgres more accessible for newcomers and specialists alike. Postico will look familiar to anyone who has used a Mac before. Just connect to a database and begin working with tables and views. Start with the basics and learn about advanced features of PostgreSQL as you go along.
pgAdmin and Postico can be primarily classified as "Database" tools.
Some of the features offered by pgAdmin are:
- Multiplatform
- Designed for multiple PostgreSQL versions and derivatives
- Extensive documentation
On the other hand, Postico provides the following key features:
- Peek inside your database. Then edit as needed.
- Design a database with a sound structure.
- Query, Enquire, Investigate.
pgAdmin is an open source tool with 270 GitHub stars and 126 GitHub forks. Here's a link to pgAdmin's open source repository on GitHub.
Pros of pgAdmin
Pros of Postico
- Very clean, respectable interface4
- Really modern client3
- Reliable and easy to use3
- Increases productivity2