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Active Admin vs phpMyAdmin: What are the differences?

Developers describe Active Admin as "The administration framework for Ruby on Rails applications". Active Admin is a Ruby on Rails framework for creating elegant backends for website administration. On the other hand, phpMyAdmin is detailed as "A free software, for MySQL and MariaDB". As a portable web application written primarily in PHP, it has become one of the most popular MySQL administration tools, especially for web hosting services.

Active Admin and phpMyAdmin belong to "Database Tools" category of the tech stack.

Active Admin is an open source tool with 8.54K GitHub stars and 3.02K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Active Admin's open source repository on GitHub.

GoRails, Adtena, and CodeRack are some of the popular companies that use Active Admin, whereas phpMyAdmin is used by Basharsoft, Rescue Digital, LLC, and Matzen Group IVS. Active Admin has a broader approval, being mentioned in 11 company stacks & 28 developers stacks; compared to phpMyAdmin, which is listed in 11 company stacks and 19 developer stacks.

Decisions about Active Admin and phpMyAdmin
Adam Taylor
IT Consultant · | 2 upvotes · 220.1K views
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NavicatNavicat
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MySQL WorkBenchMySQL WorkBenchphpMyAdminphpMyAdmin

We were looking a tool that would allow us to do MySQL and PostgreSQL development/administration from a single tool. We decided on Navicat Premium because it can connect to MySQL, MariaDB, MongoDB, SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL, and SQLite databases - and simultaneously. It's also compatible with Amazon RDS and Microsoft Azure, which we also use.

Moreover, we previously experienced the occasional freezing and crashing in MySQL Workbench. It also suffered from a poor design, with certain features being a bit difficult to find. Meanwhile, phpMyAdmin lacked schema visualization tools and seemed better suited to lightweight day to day transactions than some of the big jobs that we needed to do.

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Pros of Active Admin
Pros of phpMyAdmin
  • 6
    Customizable
  • 3
    Easy Integration
  • 2
    Powerful Admin Portal
  • 5
    Query linter
  • 5
    Easy data access
  • 5
    User administration

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Cons of Active Admin
Cons of phpMyAdmin
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    • 1
      Insecure

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    What is Active Admin?

    Active Admin is a Ruby on Rails framework for creating elegant backends for website administration.

    What is phpMyAdmin?

    As a portable web application written primarily in PHP, it has become one of the most popular MySQL administration tools, especially for web hosting services.

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    What are some alternatives to Active Admin and phpMyAdmin?
    Devise
    Devise is a flexible authentication solution for Rails based on Warden
    Slick
    It is a modern database query and access library for Scala. It allows you to work with stored data almost as if you were using Scala collections while at the same time giving you full control over when a database access happens and which data is transferred.
    RubyGems
    It is a package manager for the Ruby programming language that provides a standard format for distributing Ruby programs and libraries, a tool designed to easily manage the installation of gems, and a server for distributing them.
    Spring Data
    It makes it easy to use data access technologies, relational and non-relational databases, map-reduce frameworks, and cloud-based data services. This is an umbrella project which contains many subprojects that are specific to a given database.
    DataGrip
    A cross-platform IDE that is aimed at DBAs and developers working with SQL databases.
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