Database management client built for DynamoDB-first workflows. Visual filter builder, live Streams tail, cross-table joins, and Time Trace — everything the AWS console refuses to give you.
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| Home — connection list | Browse — grid view | Explore — filter builder |
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| Live stream tail | Cross-join (Left Anti) | Add connection wizard |
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| Feature | Status |
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| DynamoDB — browse tables & items | ✅ |
| DynamoDB — visual filter/query builder (12 operators) | ✅ |
| DynamoDB — client-side filtering (exact results, no scan waste) | ✅ |
| Scan confirmation — large table protection | ✅ |
| Field autocomplete from table schema | ✅ |
Hierarchical / composite key support (begins_with on country::zone::id patterns) |
✅ |
| DynamoDB — live Streams tail | ✅ |
| Cross-table joins (INNER / LEFT / LEFT ANTI ★ / RIGHT / RIGHT ANTI) | ✅ |
| Time Trace — cross-table event timeline ★ | ✅ |
| Index recommendations — GSI suggestions after inefficient scans | ✅ |
| Pagination with remaining count | ✅ |
| Sort direction toggle (ASC / DESC) | ✅ |
| Time-range presets (Last 1h / 6h / 24h / 7d) | ✅ |
| Pre-run cost estimator (Query/Scan mode + estimated RCU) | ✅ |
| Query history | ✅ |
| Multiple connections | ✅ |
| AWS profile / access keys / ENV auth | ✅ |
| DynamoDB Local support | ✅ |
| InfluxDB, TimescaleDB, Cassandra, ScyllaDB | 🚧 Coming soon |
The problem every DynamoDB team hits: when a battery-critical alert fires on a sensor, it's supposed to write to four tables —
DeviceMessages,SensorAlerts,DeviceRegistry, andNotificationHistory. Did all four writes succeed? With standard DynamoDB tools you open each table separately, copy-paste the entity ID, and pray.
Time Trace automates this. Give it a field and value — deviceId = sensor-0012 — and it searches every table in your connection simultaneously, resolves timestamps, and renders a chronological timeline. Tables where the entity was expected but not found are called out in a warning panel — pointing directly to the dropped write.
| Tool | Single table | Cross-table search | Chronological timeline | Missing-table detection |
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| AWS Console | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
| NoSQL Workbench | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
| DataOrbit Time Trace | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
Grab the latest .dmg / .exe / .AppImage from the Releases page.
brew install slothlabs/tap/dataorbit- CloudOrbit: reference the same
~/.awsprofile in DataOrbit — it picks up temporary credentials automatically. - BastionOrbit: open a tunnel to your database port, then add a DataOrbit connection pointing to
localhost:<localPort>. No VPN needed.
Requirements: Node 18+, Rust stable, Tauri v2 CLI.
npm install
npm run tauri devBrowser dev mode (mock data, no Tauri binary):
npm run dev
# Open http://localhost:1421/?mock=1# Unit tests (Vitest)
npm test
# Playwright screenshot suite
npm run screenshotsRust unit tests:
cd src-tauri
cargo test- Fork the repo and create a branch:
git checkout -b my-feature - Make your changes and run the test suites above
- Open a pull request — all PRs require review before merging to
main - Direct pushes to
mainare disabled
For significant changes, open an issue first to discuss the approach.
- Time Trace: OR conditions, pattern matching, exportable timeline
- Composite key joins (cross-table on multiple fields)
- Filter groups with AND / OR logic
- Client-side aggregates: COUNT, DISTINCT, GROUP BY, MIN/MAX/AVG
- Export results to CSV / JSON (with auto-pagination)
- Saved queries & per-table templates
- InfluxDB support
- TimescaleDB (PostgreSQL-based time series)
- Cassandra / ScyllaDB support
- Schema visualization (ERD-style view)
- DynamoDB item editor (insert / update / delete)
- Multi-region stream viewer
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