Dora is a native, cross-platform database workbench built with Tauri and Rust. The installer is a 20-30 MB download that starts instantly, versus the several-hundred-MB Chromium bundle of Electron-based alternatives, and it covers the full day-to-day loop without asking you to leave the app.
- Connect anything - PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, CockroachDB, SQLite, libSQL/Turso, Cloudflare D1, and DuckDB, plus CSV/JSON/Parquet/NDJSON as queryable data files.
- Skip the connection string - sign in to Supabase, Neon, Turso, PlanetScale, Vercel Postgres, Xata, or Cloudflare D1 and pick a database, or paste a string for 15+ auto-recognized hosted providers.
- Query your way - browse and inline-edit data, run SQL in a Monaco editor, generate SQL with AI, or write Drizzle/Prisma queries.
- Stay in sync - diff a Drizzle/Prisma schema against the live database and preview the migration, inspect schemas as an ER diagram, and spin up local Docker databases.
- Product analytics built in - point it at a PostHog project and query with HogQL, with a dashboard on top.
Everything is keyboard-first.
macOS
brew install remcostoeten/tap/doraWindows
winget install RemcoStoeten.DoraArch Linux
yay -S doraDebian / Ubuntu
curl -fsSL https://remco-stoeten.github.io/dora/KEY.gpg \
| sudo gpg --dearmor -o /etc/apt/keyrings/dora.gpg
echo "deb [arch=amd64 signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/dora.gpg] \
https://remco-stoeten.github.io/dora stable main" \
| sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/dora.list
sudo apt update && sudo apt install doraLinux (Snap)
sudo snap install doraLinux (Flatpak / AppImage / deb / rpm): download from the releases page.
| Database | Status |
|---|---|
| PostgreSQL | Full support: SSH tunneling, live updates via LISTEN/NOTIFY |
| MySQL | Full support: SSH tunneling, live updates via polling |
| SQLite | Full support: native file picker |
| DuckDB | Full support: local .duckdb files, import CSV/JSON/Parquet as tables |
| libSQL / Turso | Full support: local and remote |
| MariaDB | Full support: MariaDB-aware dialect; native UUID / INET4 / INET6 types |
| CockroachDB | Full support: CockroachDB-aware schema introspection, live monitor auto-tuned |
| Cloudflare D1 | Full support: connects over Cloudflare's HTTP query API, no local file needed |
| Data files (CSV / TSV / Parquet / JSON / NDJSON) | DuckDB-backed sessions: query, export, cross-file JOINs; save as DuckDB to edit |
Skip the connection string entirely. Sign in to a provider, and Dora lists your databases and mints the credential for you. The correct engine, dialect, and SSL are applied automatically.
| Provider | How you connect |
|---|---|
| Supabase | Connect your account (OAuth), pick a project |
| Neon | Add an API key, pick a project: branch-aware (choose a branch when a project has more than one) |
| Turso | Add a token (or mint one with the Turso CLI), pick a database |
| PlanetScale | Add a service token, pick a branch |
| Vercel Postgres | Add a token, pick a store |
| Xata | Add a key, pick a database |
| Cloudflare D1 | Add an API token, pick a database |
Any other hosted or serverless provider is auto-recognized from its connection string, with correct engine, dialect, and SSL applied for you, no native integration required:
Fly.io · Railway · Render · Aiven · DigitalOcean · Crunchy Bridge · Timescale · AWS RDS/Aurora · Azure Database · Google Cloud SQL · CockroachDB Cloud · TiDB Cloud · Yugabyte
They all speak standard Postgres/MySQL/libSQL, so just paste the string. See docs/architecture/data-sources.md.
Browse schemas, tables, columns, indexes, and row data. Sort, filter (with AND/OR toggle), and paginate. Inline-edit cells, bulk-edit selections, set values to NULL, add/duplicate/delete rows, and stage changes in dry-run mode before committing. Export as JSON, CSV, or SQL INSERT, respecting your active filters and sort order. Back up a database to a .sql dump and restore from one.
Multi-tab workspace with isolated execution state. Monaco editor with autocomplete, syntax highlighting, and Vim keybindings. Run SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE, and DDL. Filter result sets, switch between table and JSON view, export results. Tabs persist across relaunch and can be dragged to reorder.
Press ⌘I / Ctrl+I, describe what you want, get schema-grounded SQL back. Hit Fix with AI on a failed query to send the query and error to the assistant automatically. Supports OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, Groq, and Ollama. API keys are stored encrypted (AES-256-GCM) with the master key in the OS keychain. Ollama runs entirely offline, no key required. See docs/ai-providers.md.
Drizzle runner: write and run Drizzle ORM queries with schema-aware autocomplete and a SQL preview before execution.
Prisma runner: write and execute Prisma Client queries natively inside Dora, with schema-aware autocomplete. No separate script file or ts-node needed.
Link a project folder, and Dora detects your Drizzle or Prisma schema, parses it, and compares it against the live database. The drift view groups every difference by table and flags each change as safe, review, or destructive. From there it generates a reconciling migration, dialect-correct up/down SQL, with destructive and review statements gated behind explicit opt-in toggles. The preview is read-only: hand the SQL off to the SQL console with one click, where the normal execution guardrails apply. Nothing is run behind your back.
Connect a PostHog project with a personal API key and Dora becomes a desktop PostHog client. Query events, persons, and sessions with HogQL in the SQL console, right next to your databases, and get a built-in Analytics dashboard for free: KPI tiles compared against the previous period, an activity chart, and breakdowns of top events, pages, browsers, referrers, countries, and devices.
Switch the whole dashboard between 7, 14, 30, and 90 days, click any slice of a breakdown to drill into it (drills stack, so you can narrow to one site, event, and browser at once), and toggle exclude localhost to drop development traffic. PostHog connections are read-only: Dora queries the HogQL API, it never writes. See docs/features/analytics.mdx.
Every query you run is stored, searchable, and re-runnable. History is scoped per connection.
Interactive ER diagram with pan, zoom, FK edges, and a search that dims unrelated tables. Export to SVG or PNG, following the active theme.
Spin up a local PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, or CockroachDB container in one click, then start, stop, inspect, and remove it without leaving the app. Open a container directly in the data viewer, view logs, run seed scripts, or export a Docker Compose file.
Dora distinguishes database files from data files:
| Open this | What you get |
|---|---|
.sqlite / .db |
Editable SQLite database |
.duckdb |
Editable DuckDB database: browse, edit rows, run SQL, import more files |
| CSV, JSON, Parquet, TSV, NDJSON | Readonly DuckDB-backed session: SQL queries, export, cross-file JOINs |
Save as DuckDB materializes a data-file session into a new .duckdb file on disk, then opens it as an editable connection. Import files pulls CSV/JSON/Parquet into physical tables on an existing DuckDB connection.
If a data file moves or goes missing, Dora shows connection health and lets you relocate or remove sources from the source panel without losing the connection entry.
Connect to databases behind firewalls through encrypted SSH tunnels. Tunnel config is stored per connection alongside its credentials.
Dark and light themes, custom accent colours, and configurable font sizes. Live preview, no restart required.
Dora is a Bun + Turborepo monorepo:
apps/
desktop/ # Tauri app (Rust backend + React/TypeScript frontend)
marketing/ # Next.js marketing site
packages/
studio/ # @dora/studio, shared Studio package used by desktop and marketing demo
style/ # Shared oxlint + oxfmt config
Prerequisites: Bun, Rust, and the Tauri prerequisites for your platform.
# Install dependencies
bun install
# Start the desktop app in development mode
bun run desktop:dev
# Run the marketing site
bun run --cwd apps/marketing devBuild
bun run desktop:build # current platform
bun run desktop:build:linux # AppImage + deb + rpm
bun run desktop:build:win # nsis + msi
bun run desktop:build:mac # dmgTests
bun run test # full Vitest suite (via turbo)
bun run test:watch # watch mode
bun run test:coverage # with coverageNote
Use bun run test, not a bare bun test — the latter invokes Bun's own
runner, which picks up Vitest and Playwright specs it cannot execute.
Note
The desktop app uses Vite as its dev server (http://localhost:1420). Hot-reload works for the TypeScript frontend; Rust changes require a full rebuild.
Bug reports, feature requests, and pull requests are welcome. Open an issue to discuss anything non-trivial before sending a PR.
For significant changes (new database support, new UI surfaces, changes to the Rust backend), please open an issue first so the approach can be agreed on.
macOS (Apple Silicon + Intel), Windows (x64), Linux (x64) via AppImage, deb, rpm, Snap, or Flatpak.
GNU General Public License v3.0. See LICENSE.