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phpMyAdmin vs Slick: What are the differences?
What is phpMyAdmin? 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.
What is Slick? Database query and access library for Scala. 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.
phpMyAdmin and Slick can be primarily classified as "Database" tools.
Slick is an open source tool with 2.27K GitHub stars and 542 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Slick's open source repository on GitHub.
According to the StackShare community, Slick has a broader approval, being mentioned in 7789 company stacks & 4 developers stacks; compared to phpMyAdmin, which is listed in 23 company stacks and 22 developer stacks.
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.
Pros of phpMyAdmin
- Query linter5
- Easy data access5
- User administration5
Pros of Slick
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Cons of phpMyAdmin
- Insecure1