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Induction: A Polyglot Database Client For Mac OS X

283 pointsby matttthompsonabout 13 years ago

27 comments

phillmvabout 13 years ago
Serious question:<p>Can't someone just add database drivers to Sequel Pro? It's far and away the best Database GUI I've ever used and its reliance on MySQL is actually keeping me from moving to PostgreSQL full time.<p>(i.e. <a href="http://www.sequelpro.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.sequelpro.com/</a> and <a href="http://www.sequelpro.com/docs/Source_Code" rel="nofollow">http://www.sequelpro.com/docs/Source_Code</a> - a little crazy they're still on SVN but oh well)
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JangoSteveabout 13 years ago
This idea is friggin awesome and definitely something I'd pay for. My apps are pretty evenly divided at this point between MySQL, Postgres, and MongoDB, and I don't see that trend going away any time soon (we always pick the db that makes the most sense for each particular project). Having them all available in the same app would be amazing.<p>With that in mind, just to warn everyone, this is <i>very</i> alpha-level software. It only supports postgres and redis right now. If you put the wrong credentials in, there's no feedback, it just seems like nothing happened. Also, trying to resize the window turned everything white for me and the app had to be rebooted.<p>If you decide to use it (and please do, because I want this to work), be sure to have your Mac's system log opened in console, so you can see what's going on.<p>UPDATE: Looks like someone has already submitted a pull request for the "no feedback on wrong credentials" bug I mentioned [1], and I created a ticket for the resize issue [2].<p>[1] <a href="https://github.com/Induction/Induction/pull/8" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/Induction/Induction/pull/8</a><p>[2] <a href="https://github.com/Induction/Induction/issues/10" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/Induction/Induction/issues/10</a>
Legionabout 13 years ago
"for Mac OS X" breaks my heart, because this is exactly the kind of open-source DB client I want on Linux.<p>At least I can use this when I'm on my Air, but I recently went looking for a multi-DB client app like this for Linux, and this looks like what I was <i>wishing</i> I would find.
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thought_alarmabout 13 years ago
Isn't this just reinventing ODBC?<p>Back in the day you could whip together an app like this using Borland's dev tools in literally a matter of minutes, and it worked with any data source configured on your system.<p>And I think there's a YouTube video that has Steve Jobs demoing that same sort of data access using only Interface Builder on NeXTSTEP.<p>What am I missing?
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steveloshabout 13 years ago
Does anyone have an actual build of this? I just uninstalled XCode this morning and replaced it with Apple's new CLI dev tools, otherwise I'd try building it myself.
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endlessvoid94about 13 years ago
I'd do this myself if I had time, but I'd love a homebrew formula for this.
tibbonabout 13 years ago
Wonder if I'll be able to get this working with Oracle. Unfortunately (believe me, I've complained and hope to change it in the future) I have to use Oracle at work. Would love to use this.
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newman314about 13 years ago
I wonder if this could be used to hook up something Excel-ish to a DB backend.<p>I use Excel frequently to model and ask "what-if" questions but I often wish I could store/retrieve information dynamically from a DB. (The ODBC connectors that Excel has leave much to be desired).<p>For my use case, that would be the holy grail.
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dguaragliaabout 13 years ago
Looks interesting, but there are no binaries and the XCode project didn't compile right away.<p>(I guess, being a software developer, I should go and try to figure out what's breaking the building process. On the other hand, I've never used XCode and don't know enough about OS X library management to figure out broken deps)
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vineetabout 13 years ago
For someone thinking about building a java version - this might help: <a href="http://schemacrawler.sourceforge.net/" rel="nofollow">http://schemacrawler.sourceforge.net/</a><p>(I don't think that it supports noSQL.)
learc83about 13 years ago
This would have been great when I was taking the Stanford DB class a few months ago.<p>I like it, looks much nicer than any of the solutions I'm aware of currently.
martingordonabout 13 years ago
I got it to build using Xcode 4.3 (with warnings), but since my Postgres user and database names don't match, I can't connect to my local database.
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monatronabout 13 years ago
really interesting. im excited to check this out. what are you using for the data visualizations?
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burkeabout 13 years ago
This looks like it might be less painful for simpler postgres databases than Navicat. Very cool.
aheilbutabout 13 years ago
RazorSQL is excellent too, and connects to lots of different databases through jdbc.
bokchoiabout 13 years ago
DbVisualizer is a nice RDBMS client that is cross platform, supports many databases, graphs table relations, and comes in a free or $$ flavor:<p><a href="http://www.dbvis.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.dbvis.com/</a>
sherazabout 13 years ago
Very cool. This is my current suite of DB apps:<p>- Navicat - PGAdmin III - SeqlPro<p>Looks like I will add this as a fourth. Big win on the visualization feature!
thebauerpauerabout 13 years ago
It should be noted somewhere that this project currently appears to only work on OS X Lion due to usage of a few Lion-specific classes, namely NSOrderedSet.
lbotosabout 13 years ago
This is incredible! Kudos. I can't wait to try this out.
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dasil003about 13 years ago
The list of 5 databases are precisely the set of database technologies used across my entire projects folder... Suite!!
not_chriscohoatabout 13 years ago
This looks great! I maintain a number of PostgreSQL DBs so being able to visualize it locally will be a great resource.
gmsabout 13 years ago
I like the design on that landing page. The most relevant bits are also the most apparent.
latchkeyabout 13 years ago
Oh, I'd love it if it supported the Google AppEngine datastore!
jpitzabout 13 years ago
If I could just marry something like this to DataGraph. Sigh.
methoddkabout 13 years ago
This is freaking awesome and I can't wait to build it.
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TomatoTomatoabout 13 years ago
Is there a visual query designer?
grogsabout 13 years ago
What's the appeal of this? Just use SQuirreL or DBArtisan.
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