Navicat vs. ApexSQL by Quest

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Navicat
Score 7.4 out of 10
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Navicat Premium is a multi-connection database development and administration tool which can simultaneously connect 7 databases (MySQL, MariaDB, MongoDB, SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL, and SQLite) from a single application. Compatible with cloud databases like Amazon RDS, Amazon Aurora, Amazon Redshift, Microsoft Azure, Oracle Cloud, Google Cloud, Alibaba Cloud, Tencent Cloud, MongoDB Atlas and Huawei Cloud, developerws can quickly and easily build, manage and maintain databases.N/A
ApexSQL by Quest
Score 8.5 out of 10
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ApexSQL is a software development company headquartered in Chapel Hill, US, and a Quest company. The company specializes in developing professional software tools for Microsoft SQL Server including tools for database auditing, recovery, change management, development, and documentation. ApexSQL is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner.N/A
Pricing
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Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
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Considered Both Products
Navicat
Chose Navicat
Some of the free database clients are not bad at all. In fact, I have known a few developers who swear by them. However, I don't share that view. As a professional, I want a lot of features that you just can't find in free products, or at least, all in the same product.
Chose Navicat
Navicat allows for easier querying of data while still allowing for visualization and modeling.
Chose Navicat
Navicat is superior in allowing us to save complex queries and share them with other users. It is also better at administering the database. It also allows us to easily transfer data and structure to a test database server. This saves a ton of time when working on our dev …
Chose Navicat
Pros: Mac OS, Linux, Windows OS support. Cloud db support for all major vendors. Standard HTML accessibility. Standard/Enterprise edition compatibility. Remote and performance monitoring, alert notification, online query analyzing.
Cons: No disaster recovery management, …
Chose Navicat
While Sequel Pro is a great shareware tool, it's limited to MySQL databases; while our department does use MySQL databases, we also use Oracle databases, so Navicat Premium's multi-product support is an absolute requirement.
Navicat Premium also provides data browser support, …
ApexSQL by Quest
Chose ApexSQL by Quest
ApexSQL by Quest provides many toolkits for sql server that stacks up against its alternatives such as Operation toolkit which includes capabilities like disaster recovery, backup and restore etc, DevOps toolkit which include automation, compare and sync toolkit which include …
Chose ApexSQL by Quest
It's free to use and it has a lot of unique features like tab navigation, Coloring of tabs,
Execution alerts, helps in automatically writing query and the best what I liked in ApexSQL is fast database creating,tables auto fill.i recommend giving the tools a try as i think …
Chose ApexSQL by Quest
It is great what offers related to its price. Other tools, seem to be very expensive, and are offering the same as Apex, or less.
Chose ApexSQL by Quest
ApexSQL has good tools that were compatible with the current infrastructure of our organization and was a useful supplement to our MS SQL databases and enabled us to automate and do data comparisons and other functions with higher ease. It was mainly selected to be a toolbox …
Features
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Database Development
Comparison of Database Development features of Product A and Product B
Navicat
8.2
Ratings
4% below category average
ApexSQL by Quest
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Version control tools7.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Test data generation8.10 Ratings00 Ratings
Performance optimization tools8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Schema maintenance9.20 Ratings00 Ratings
Database change management8.80 Ratings00 Ratings
Database Administration
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Navicat
8.3
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1% below category average
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User management9.20 Ratings00 Ratings
Database security8.10 Ratings00 Ratings
Database status reporting7.60 Ratings00 Ratings
Change management8.20 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
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Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
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8.7
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Usability
8.0
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User Testimonials
NavicatApexSQL by Quest
Likelihood to Recommend
I was tasked with migrating data from our local PostgreSQL DB to an Amazon RDS instance. I expected this to be a difficult job, but Navicat's migration wizard made it fairly straightforward. I think that it's more geared towards professional users, although not necessarily database practitioners. Non pros might do better with the new Navicat Lite edition.
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As soon as I start developing a new query or script, I just need to type my keywords and then all the basic for my work is already there. Just need to worry for the pesonalization. Also, I can have a template for very different scenarios, also the code suggestions, makes my code review and any error debug easier
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Pros
  • Easy to understand
  • Simple UI/UX
  • Easy to connect data
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  • Disaster Recovery of database
  • Management of Agent Jobs in Sql sever
  • Backup and restoration of databases
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Cons
  • Filter table
  • Save to external file
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  • Need to improve on optimization sometimes it take too much time during data loading and unloading
  • The IDE comes in web browser.It should develop its own IDE to write code
  • I don't particularly appreciate that there is no way to get all data for any records
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Usability
There is quite a lot to learn because Navicat Premium is a very comprehensive database management and development tool, but it's User Interface is intuitive enough to pick up fairly quickly. I have also referred to the documentation on occasion, and can attest that it is quite good. I feel that it works best on a large monitor, but that's fairly common for this sort of software.
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Support Rating
Very robust online community and well as excellent support staff. Easy to follow video tutorials. Detailed sample configurations are provided with guided walk-throughs via remote classroom instruction. Very fast response from support staff. No internal hires were necessary for support as vendor support staff fully met all technical expertise. 24/7 incident reporting and tracking is great.
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Alternatives Considered
While Sequel Pro is a great shareware tool, it's limited to MySQL databases; while our department does use MySQL databases, we also use Oracle databases, so Navicat Premium's multi-product support is an absolute requirement. Navicat Premium also provides data browser support, including filtering, to empower less technically-minded users to query and manipulate databases, an option not available in Sequel Pro. And the job scheduling and batching features of Navicat Premium further distinguish it above the admirable, if limited, Sequel Pro.
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It's free to use and it has a lot of unique features like tab navigation, Coloring of tabs, Execution alerts, helps in automatically writing query and the best what I liked in ApexSQL is fast database creating,tables auto fill.i recommend giving the tools a try as i think you will find them very useful
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Return on Investment
  • Similar features to OEM provided very easy to use, out-of-the-box functionality.
  • No large infrastructure changes were needed to deploy and install.
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  • Reduced the time needed to maintain and audit our MS SQL databases
  • Automation reduced the time and effort needed to execute on daily tasks
  • Increased efficiency overall by making data comparisons and other day to day tasks more efficient
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