dbeaver

Raised as a usability problem by 26 people on Hacker News over 10 years (2017–2026), in 13 threads.

People raised many different problems with dbeaver, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 28 complaints

Manually writing cascading JOINs to follow foreign keys is tedious in standard SQL clients2026-02-25
Constant frustrating popups that cannot be stopped2025-06-02
Batch selections sometimes fail in ways the user cannot reproduce2025-06-02
SQL errors are hard to read, mixed with Java stack layers2024-03-22
Tree list often requires multiple clicks to operate2024-03-11
Getting to table data requires drilling three to four levels deep in tree2024-03-11
Shows generic error line and Java stack trace, forcing users to debug via command line2024-03-11
Plugins can't be installed from a marketplace, so users must hunt down update site URLs manually2024-03-11
Gets stuck on progress bar after reconnecting, requiring restart and many clicks to reach table2024-03-11
Restore finishes with confusing wording and a highlighted Next button asking for another step2024-03-11
Text becomes barely visible in dark mode, and no clear fix exists2024-03-11
Interface is considered the worst the commenter has used2024-03-11
Basic tasks take many clicks; export is a maze and rename and edit are split2023-09-13
Updating requires many manual steps: download, quit, drag to Applications, replace, wait, unmount2023-07-15
SSH extension keeps getting uninstalled after every DBeaver update2022-05-25
Memphis theme makes DBeaver basically unusable, so theming must be turned off2022-02-26
Has one of the worst user experiences the commenter has encountered2020-07-11
UI is too busy, and users must work out where everything is2020-04-20
Commenter dislikes the interface, making them switch to another tool2020-04-18
UI feels clunky and hokey; takes weeks to become pleasant to use2019-01-18
Constantly pestered with upgrade requests and tricked into installing other software2019-01-18
Toolbar buttons are unlabeled, so you must hover to learn what they do2019-01-18
Eclipse-based UI is cluttered and overwhelming to use2019-01-18
Routine hangs when querying MongoDB collections, sometimes a drag2019-01-18
Described as very buggy and unintuitive to use2019-01-18
UI stays unusable up to 2 minutes while dead connections are detected2019-01-17
Rendering breaks on Linux, so user must switch themes at each startup2017-10-02
Must toggle active database instead of opening a new connection window2017-09-13