Things holding me back to switch to CloudBeaver

I mainly work with just two types of databases:

- PostgreSQL
- MariaDB
- MySQL (occasionally :P)

I’ve already tested several tools:

- ByteBase (perfect, but limited to 10 servers)
- Navicat (14-day trial)
- HeidiSQL
- phpMyAdmin
- Adminer
- pgAdmin4 (excellent, but PostgreSQL only)

However, I’ve never found a single solution that fully meets all my needs across the different databases I manage.

For PostgreSQL, I use **pgAdmin4**, and I’m very satisfied with it since it lets me do everything I need in a very convenient way.
For MariaDB/MySQL, I use **HeidiSQL** (a Windows application), but I’m not as happy with it.

Since **CloudBeaver** is a dockerized web UI, I tried it some time ago and decided to revisit it once it had matured. Today I gave it another try, and while I was pleased with most aspects, I still feel it’s designed more for managing _**databases within a server**_ rather than managing the _**database servers themselves**_.

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Features I’m Missing:
1. An easy web UI to create new users (similar to pgAdmin).
2. An easy web UI to create new databases (similar to pgAdmin).
3. A straightforward way to export entire databases and users.
4. A straightforward way to import entire databases and users.

While I can rename databases, true database management features are lacking. If CloudBeaver included these capabilities, managing databases (from a root account) would become much easier.

Of course, I can do all of this through SQL statements, but then it raises the question: what’s the real use case of the app - is it only meant as a viewer or db-editor, but *not* as a database-manager?

Thank you to everyone contributing to this project!