Next Release: 2.13.0 - December 13, 2018

OmniDB 2.12.0

Release Date: September 23, 2018

Release Notes

• New features:
  • New modern look & feel on the entire web interface, components and icons
  • PostgreSQL: User now can enable/disable autocommit
  • PostgreSQL: Status of the backend is shown to the user
  • PostgreSQL: If autocommit is disabled or user starts a transaction, user can either COMMIT or ROLLBACK
  • PostgreSQL: New full-featured autocomplete component for PostgreSQL
  • PostgreSQL: Support to HASH partitions (SQL templates, treeview, properties and DDL)
  • New User options to set CSV encoding and delimiter
• Improvements:
  • PostgreSQL: OmniDB now uses PostgreSQL server-side cursors whenever possible to always keep low OmniDB memory usage
  • PostgreSQL: Improved SELECT template for views and materialized views
  • Save title of Query Tabs
  • OmniDB debugger: Different RPM for CentOS 6 and 7
  • OmniDB plugin API: Adapted to new OmniDB look & feel
  • OmniDB plugin API: Support to pglogical, Postgres-BDR 1.0 and Postgres-XL removed from core and are now separated open source plugins
• Bug fixes:
  • Fixed: PostgreSQL: High memory usage when returning very large dataset (using server-side cursors)
  • Fixed: Oracle/MySQL/MariaDB: QueryBlock not displaying first row of every block
  • Fixed: Click on removed node on the treeview: "Can only transpose a table with a single row"
  • Fixed: Export to XLSX does not respect locale
  • Fixed: Editor loses focus after Alt-Tab

1- Installation

1.1- Installation packages

Just go to omnidb.org, download the appropriate file for your operating system and architecture and install it.

1.2- From source

1.2.1- On Debian >= 9 with pip

sudo apt install python3-pip
pip3 install pip --upgrade
pip3 install -r requirements.txt

1.2.2- On Debian/Ubuntu using PyEnv

sudo apt install git make build-essential libssl-dev zlib1g-dev libbz2-dev libreadline-dev libsqlite3-dev wget curl llvm libncurses5-dev libncursesw5-dev xz-utils

git clone https://github.com/pyenv/pyenv.git ~/.pyenv
echo 'export PYENV_ROOT="$HOME/.pyenv"' >> ~/.bashrc
echo 'export PATH="$PYENV_ROOT/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.bashrc
echo 'eval "$(pyenv init -)"' >> ~/.bashrc
source ~/.bashrc

pyenv install 3.5.2
cd OMNIDB_FOLDER
pyenv local 3.5.2

pip install pip --upgrade
pip install -r requirements.txt

1.3- Running OmniDB

Download or clone OmniDB repo and extract it somewhere. To start Django server, enter into OmniDB/OmniDB folder and type:

python omnidb-server.py

2- Introduction

OmniDB is a web tool that simplifies database management focusing on interactivity, designed to be powerful and lightweight. Check-out some characteristics:

• Web Tool: Accessible from any platform, using a browser as a medium
• Responsive Interface: All available functions in a single page
• Unified Workspace: Different technologies managed in a single workspace
• Simplified Editing: Easy to add and remove connections
• Safety: Multi-user support with encrypted personal information
• Interactive Tables: All functionalities use interactive tables, allowing copying and pasting in blocks
• Smart SQL Editor: Contextual SQL code completion
• Beautiful SQL Editor: You can choose between many available color themes
• Tabbed SQL Editor: Easily add, rename or delete editor tabs

Technologies:

• Python (3.5+)
• Django

Supported Platforms:

• Linux
• Windows
• OS X

Supported DBMS:

• PostgreSQL
• Oracle
• MySQL / MariaDB
• Firebird
• SQLite
• Microsoft SQL Server
• IBM DB2

3- Database Schema Management

OmniDB is designed for easy database management. Here are some features:

• Tree view showing database structure

• Powerful table creation
  • Editing capabilities:
    • Tables' names
    • Columns: name, type and nullable
    • Primary keys and respective columns
    • Foreign keys with either table and reference columns, including updating rules and removal as well
    • Indexes

• Table editing: Edit table structure according to DBMS limitations
• Data management: Add, edit and remove records

• SQL Editing
  • Syntax highlighting for SQL
  • SQL code completion for table columns and subquery
  • Multiple themes to be selected

• Support for external tools:

  • pglogical
  • Postgres-BDR
  • Postgres-XL

• Other features:

  • Querying organized in tables
  • DDL commands execution
  • SQL history
  • Graphs displaying tables and their relations

• Graphs displaying complete ER diagram

• Visualization of explain plan

• PL/pgSQL function debugger (requires a plugin, please see here)

• Monitoring dashboard