pgAdmin 4

Considering that most businesses nowadays work with databases, finding a management tool that can adapt to your team’s needs and preferences can translate into lowering the costs and time. pgAdmin is an open source tool designed that provides several advanced features to help you manage all things related to PostgreSQL databases.

The application comes with a user-friendly interface designed as a dashboard that can be further modified to fit your work style. Since the elements of the GUI are detachable, you can drag and rearrange the panels accordingly. This makes it very adaptable for both small and large screens, as you can keep things tabbed on small screens and expand and move the panels on large ones.

Moreover, the dashboard interface comes with server load visualizations, so you can easily preview details about the databases, such as transactions, locks or connected sessions, for instance. Depending on how many elements you are interacting with and the amount of query results, the UI might seem rather sluggish.

You can get started by establishing a connection to the PostgreSQL server, an action that entails specifying the standard details, including here hostname, port, username and password. It is important to note that the database needs to run locally, as otherwise you cannot create the connection. The tool can be deployed to any server that you can later on access remotely using any web browser.

It is worth mentioning that the application was designed for PostgreSQL and hence, it is compatible with this type of database. Nevertheless, it supports all PostgreSQL versions along with EDB Postgres Advanced Server. In the eventuality that your company is working with PostgreSQL and you would like to be able to manage the database more efficiently, then perhaps you can consider giving pgAdmin a try.