About Beekeeper Studio
Beekeeper Studio is built and maintained by Matthew Rathbone in Dallas, TX.
Beekeeper Studio is built with Vue.js, a lovely little web framework that is similar to React and Angular, but a little smaller and easier to work with (personal opinion, no hate mail please).
Origin Story
I'm not a DBA or a server administrator, but I build software for a living, so I have to interact with databases on a daily basis.
I got frustrated that there wasn't a straightforward and approachable cross-platform SQL client I could use. Sure there are lots of java-powered tools aimed at power-users with a million buttons and tabs, but they're not pleasent to use. I loved Sequel Pro on MacOS, but that's no good when working on Linux, or with SQLite, Postgres, or SQL Server.
So in 2019 I started working on Beekeeper Studio. It took almost a year of (skant) evening and weekend time to launch the first version in early 2020.
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Why Call it Beekeeper?
While I love getting tweets from folks disappointed we're not running an analytics company for actual Beekeepers, the app is called Beekeeper for a reason.
Over the last 10 years I have built four apps named Beekeeper. Two were internal tools at Foursquare, and one was a (now defunkt) company, Beekeeper Data. The first app was originally called Beekeeper because it interacted with Apache Hive (yes the product name is a dad-joke), but I became so fond of the name that I just can't stop naming products *Beekeeper*.
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More About Matthew
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