rudbman

rudbman is a desktop database workbench written in Rust and drawn with gpui, the

GPU-accelerated UI framework behind the Zed editor. It reaches a database through

that database's own JDBC driver over an embedded JVM bridge, so any product with a

JDBC driver is a supported product: drivers come from Maven Central by coordinate or

from disk, the driver class is detected from the JAR, and every connection gets an

isolated class loader so two vendors' drivers cannot collide.

Each connection is a tab with its own work area — a schema explorer over catalogs,

schemas, tables, views, sequences, routines and triggers; a SQL editor with dialect-aware

highlighting, statement splitting, cancellation, execution plans and a searchable

history of the statements it ran, over a virtualized grid that

scrolls a million rows without loading a million rows; ERD diagrams laid out and

routed automatically; a visual query builder that turns dragged tables and columns

into SQL; and backup of a schema to a replayable .sql script. Connections can run

through an SSH tunnel, and secrets live in the Windows credential store rather than

on disk.

No JDK is required — the installer carries a Java runtime built with jlink and

rudbman uses the one next to its executable. The interface is available in English,

Korean, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, German, Spanish, French and Russian.