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tabularis
Desktop SQL client with notebooks, plugin drivers and a built-in MCP server
- Stars
- 5.5k
- License
- Apache-2.0
- Last commit
- Nov 2026
- Last release
- Nov 2026
- Language
- TypeScript
1,171 on 22 Apr 20265,461 on 11 Nov 2026
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Overview
Tabularis is a desktop SQL workspace with built-in PostgreSQL, MySQL/MariaDB and SQLite drivers. It adds 29 shipped driver plugins (DuckDB, ClickHouse, MongoDB and others) that speak JSON-RPC over stdio. A built-in MCP server lets agents such as Claude and Cursor read schemas and run queries. It also includes SQL notebooks, a visual query builder, visual EXPLAIN and optional AI text-to-SQL.
Who it is for: Developers who want a desktop SQL client that agents can query over MCP
Strengths
- Built-in MCP server exposes schema and query access to coding agents
- Drivers are plugins over JSON-RPC/stdio, so they can be written in any language
- SQL notebooks mix SQL and Markdown cells, with cross-cell variables and charts
- Text-to-SQL can use local models through Ollama
Weaknesses
- Only 3 drivers built in; every other database needs a plugin
- Built-in PostgreSQL driver is deprecated in favour of a separate plugin
- Several plugins are third-party repos, hosted outside the main org
- Snap needs a manual password-manager-service connect to save credentials
What it needs
- Docker + Compose
- Needs Ollama (optional, for local text-to-SQL)
- Models: Ollama
What changed
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