Winner of multiple awards, including the Hong Kong ICT 2008 Award of the Year, the Best Business Gold Award for a product and the Best Business Grand AwardĪ version of the software is available for iOS devices for mobile connectivityįree trials of all the version of Navicat, including premium are availableĬons: The software is not exactly cheap. The software is cross platform and works for Mac OS X, Linux (and Linux platforms via bundled Wine) and Microsoft Windows operating systems Pros: Supports many languages, including Polish, Russian, Japanese, Portuguese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Spanish, French and English Conversely, a minimal version of the software, Navicat Essentials, is available for small database development solutions. For businesses that use more than one type of data, there's Navicat Premium, which supports all of the types listed above. They are MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, Oracle, SQLite and MariaDB. Currently, Navicat is offered in different packages for different needs depending on the database type. The graphical user interfaces associated with database management were groundbreaking when the software was first released almost two decades ago, but even today the programming offers excellent usability when it comes to managing data. Navicat is one of the oldest and most matured solutions for this need and is used extensively around the world. There's always cloud solutions, but many firms choose better security by hosting the data on a controlled site.

Overall Opinion: Database management is a continuous challenge for many businesses, especially due to advances in mobile technology that has produced a requirement for more accessible and movable data.

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