Spring Tools 4 vs dbForge Fusion for SQL Server: What are the differences?

Developers describe Spring Tools 4 as "The next generation of tooling for your favorite coding environment". It is tailored for developing enterprise applications. It is largely rebuilt from scratch, it provides world-class support for developing Spring-based enterprise applications, whether you prefer Eclipse, Visual Studio Code, or Atom IDE. On the other hand, dbForge Fusion for SQL Server is detailed as "Powerful Visual Studio plugin for SQL Server". It is a powerful Visual Studio plugin designed to simplify SQL database development and enhance data management capabilities. Integration with Visual Studio allows developers to explore and maintain existing databases, design compound SQL statements and queries, and manipulate data in different ways with no difficulties.

Spring Tools 4 and dbForge Fusion for SQL Server can be categorized as "Integrated Development Environment" tools.

Some of the features offered by Spring Tools 4 are:

• Spring Aware
• Information from live-running apps
• IDE agnostic

On the other hand, dbForge Fusion for SQL Server provides the following key features:

• Integration with Visual Studio 2010, 2012, 2013, 2015
• Integration with dotConnect for SQL Server
• Data Analysis

Spring Tools 4 is an open source tool with 265 GitHub stars and 53 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Spring Tools 4's open source repository on GitHub.