Power your agent
Install from the publisher. Not a PlugMCP endpoint.
Host a copy with our keys and logs.
No packaged release in the registry yet. Follow the repository README.
Remote URL or a command on your machine? How the two installs differ
Run on PlugMCP
A new server you create. It is not this listing's official endpoint. Use the publisher install when you want their URL and their credentials.
LaunchOverview
Open-source desktop SQL workspace with 3 built-in database drivers and 29 shipped driver plugins, including SQL Server, DuckDB, ClickHouse and Redis. Built-in MCP server for Claude, Cursor and Devin, SQL notebooks and visual EXPLAIN.
Tools
No tool list yet. Remote servers get one after the first health check.
FAQ
Open-source desktop SQL workspace with 3 built-in database drivers and 29 shipped driver plugins, including SQL Server, DuckDB, ClickHouse and Redis. Built-in MCP server for Claude, Cursor and Devin,
Copy the stdio config for Cursor, Claude Desktop, Claude Code, or VS Code on this page. It uses the publisher's install, not a PlugMCP proxy.
No required environment variable is listed on this record.
Tabularis runs locally over stdio.
Last checked 2026-11-10. Open-source desktop SQL workspace with 3 built-in database drivers and 26 shipped driver plugins, including SQL Server, DuckDB, ClickHouse and Redis. Built-in MCP server for Claude, Cursor and Devin, SQL notebooks and visual EXPLAIN. <br /> <p align="center"> <img src=".github/assets/banner-light.png#gh-light-mode-only" alt="Tabularis" width="100%"> <img src=".github/assets/banner-dark.png#gh
From the publisher
Tabularis is an open-source desktop SQL workspace with 3 built-in database drivers and 24 shipped plugins, including DuckDB, ClickHouse, Redis and Firestore. Its built-in MCP server lets Claude, Cursor and Devin (formerly Windsurf) read your schema and run queries in the same app you already use.
winget install Debba.Tabularis # Windows
brew install --cask tabularis # macOS
sudo snap install tabularis # Linux
Or grab an installer directly:
© 2026 Hex Videos.
The app UI is available in English, Italian, Spanish, Chinese (Simplified), French, German, Japanese, Russian, Korean, Tagalog and Portuguese (Brazilian).
[!TIP] Discord: Join our Discord server to talk with the maintainers, share feedback, and get help from the community.
[!NOTE] Comparison as of June 2026; features in other tools may have changed since. If you need dozens of drivers, use DBeaver. Tabularis focuses on doing a few databases well.
PostgreSQL, MySQL/MariaDB and SQLite ship built in. Everything else is a plugin. The built-in PostgreSQL driver is deprecated in favour of the PostgreSQL plugin, which Tabularis installs automatically. Current coverage, mirroring the driver & plugin coverage on the website:
Shipped
On the bounty board
[!NOTE] Shipped drivers are installable from the plugin registry. Everything else is on the bounty board: claim one, sponsor one, or request a database.
WinGet (Recommended)
winget install Debba.Tabularis
Direct Download
Download the installer from the Releases page and run it:
tabularis_x.x.x_x64-setup.exe
Follow the on-screen instructions to complete the installation.
Homebrew (Recommended)
brew install --cask tabularis
Direct Download
Builds from v0.13.1 onward are signed and notarized by Apple, so they open without any extra steps.
The notes below only apply to older releases (before v0.13.1) downloaded directly:
xattr -c /Applications/tabularis.app after copying the app to the Applications directory.sudo snap install tabularis
sudo snap connect tabularis:password-manager-service # allow keychain access for saved credentials
[!IMPORTANT] The
password-manager-serviceinterface is not auto-connected by the Snap Store yet. Without it, saving a connection fails with aPlatform secure storage failureerror.
flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flatpark https://dl.flatpark.org/flatpark.flatpakrepo
flatpak install flatpark dev.tabularis.Tabularis
Download the .AppImage file from the Releases page, make it executable and run it:
chmod +x tabularis_x.x.x_amd64.AppImage
./tabularis_x.x.x_amd64.AppImage
yay -S tabularis-bin
Tabularis checks for updates automatically on startup and notifies you when a new version is available. You can also download the latest version directly from the Releases page.
Join our Discord server to talk with the maintainers, share feedback, suggest features, or get help from the community.
Every release is documented in CHANGELOG.md.
$$-delimited blocks..sql, .psql, and .pgsql files in editor tabs without executing them.{{cell_N}} (expanded to a CTE at run time), plus global @paramName parameters..tabularis-notebook files; export as HTML, CSV, or JSON.Cmd on macOS, Ctrl on Windows/Linux).keybindings.json.Ctrl+Shift in the sidebar to reveal numbered badges (1–9) for instant connection switching.EXPLAIN format per driver.Tabularis is hackable with an external plugin system. Plugins are standalone executables that communicate with the app over JSON-RPC 2.0 via stdin/stdout, and can be written in any language.
plugins/registry.json.plugins/PLUGIN_GUIDE.md to build your own driver in any language.tabularis-theme CLI, packaging and release gates; public runtime/tooling rollout is not implied by this development feature..log files.tabularis --debug for verbose logging from launch.Configuration is stored in ~/.config/tabularis/ (Linux), ~/Library/Application Support/tabularis/ (macOS), or %APPDATA%\tabularis\ (Windows): connection profiles, saved queries, app settings (config.json), custom themes, and per-connection editor preferences. You can move this folder from Settings > Storage (or with the TABULARIS_DATA_DIR environment variable), for example to an iCloud Drive or Dropbox folder to sync connections across machines; installed plugins always stay local. Tabs and queries are restored when you reopen a connection. The wiki covers the full file layout and every config.json option, including custom AI model overrides.
On Linux, Follow System reads the XDG desktop settings portal's org.freedesktop.appearance/color-scheme preference and follows its live updates, including GNOME's dark-mode toggle with the standard Adwaita GTK theme. The resolved light/dark theme is applied explicitly to GTK window decorations and the webview. A portal value of 0 (no preference) resolves to light, so switching back to the desktop default cannot reuse the app's previously forced dark theme. If the portal is unavailable or returns an unsupported value, Tabularis falls back to the native window theme, then the browser media query. The default window capability grants core:window:allow-set-theme to allow native theme changes. macOS and Windows use native theme notifications. See the portal specification.
Portal command reads reuse one cached D-Bus connection, while the live watcher keeps its own connection. Failed reads discard the cached connection so the next request can reconnect; failed connection attempts are not cached. The existing two-second command timeout also bounds concurrent requests waiting for the cache.
Optional Text-to-SQL and query explanation powered by OpenAI, Anthropic, MiniMax, OpenRouter, Requesty, Ollama (local models, no API key, full privacy), and any OpenAI-compatible API (Groq, Perplexity, Azure OpenAI, LocalAI, ...). Model lists are fetched from your provider and cached locally; custom models can be configured per provider.
Tabularis includes a built-in MCP (Model Context Protocol) server that lets AI agents read your database schema and execute queries directly from their chat interface.
tabularis --mcp
One-click setup for Claude Desktop, Cursor, and Windsurf: open Settings → MCP Server Integration, click Install Config next to your client, and restart it. Manual configuration is covered in the wiki.
Once connected, your AI agent can:
Every tool accepts an optional output_format argument. JSON is the default, preserving the existing response format for all clients. You can choose JSON or TOON as the default under Settings → MCP Server Integration; a tool call's output_format argument overrides that preference. TOON is especially compact for tabular query results passed to an LLM. MCP transport remains JSON-RPC in either mode; only the text inside the tool result changes.
"Show me all tables in my production database and describe the
orderstable"
"Write and run a query to find the top 10 customers by total order value this month"
"Check if there are any missing indexes on the
userstable"
Setup
pnpm install
pnpm tauri dev
Build
pnpm tauri build
Contributions are welcome, see CONTRIBUTING.md. Good places to start:
Tabularis started as an experiment: how far could AI-assisted development get in building a working tool from scratch? Further than expected: it's now an actively maintained project with regular releases and a plugin ecosystem.