Alternatives to tbls
Other tools in this directory that do similar work, with a verified install command for each. tbls itself: install tbls.
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MySQL Server, the world's most popular open source database, and MySQL Cluster, a real-time, open source transactional database
Redis
For developers, who are building real-time data-driven applications, Redis is the preferred, fastest, and most feature-rich cache, data structure serv
prometheus
The Prometheus monitoring system and time series database
postgrest
REST API for any Postgres database
turso
A SQL database in Rust: SQLite-compatible, now also speaking Postgres (experimental). The LLVM of databases
golang-migrate
Database migrations. CLI and Golang library
dbmate
🚀 A lightweight, framework-agnostic database migration tool
sqlboiler
Generate a Go ORM tailored to your database schema
sysbench
Scriptable database and system performance benchmark
kuzu
Embedded property graph database built for speed. Vector search and full-text search built in. Implements Cypher
sqlancer
Automated testing to find logic and performance bugs in database systems
compiledb
Tool for generating Clang's JSON Compilation Database files for make-based build systems
SuperDB
An analytics database that puts JSON and relational tables on equal footing
pgcopydb
Copy a Postgres database to a target Postgres server (pg_dump | pg_restore on steroids)
db-vcs
Version control for databases: save, restore, and archive snapshots of your database from the command line
octosql
OctoSQL is a query tool that allows you to join, analyse and transform data from multiple databases and file formats using SQL
wal-g
Archival and Restoration for databases in the Cloud
lazysql
A cross-platform TUI database management tool written in Go
uv
An extremely fast Python package and project manager, written in Rust
ruff
An extremely fast Python linter and code formatter, written in Rust
fd
A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to 'find'
yazi
💥 Blazing fast terminal file manager written in Rust, based on async I/O
leveldb
LevelDB is a fast key-value storage library written at Google that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string values
Spacedrive
Spacedrive is an open source cross-platform file explorer, powered by a virtual distributed filesystem written in Rust
How we picked these
We match on what the tool does and how it installs, then order by how widely each project is used. We're not saying these are better or worse than tbls — that depends on what you're building. We're saying they're the projects people reach for in the same situations, and each one has an install command we checked against its documentation.
tbls is developed by its own authors and this page is an independent reference; we are not affiliated with or sponsored by any project listed, and nothing here is a paid placement.