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RustGrid

A Navicat-style database GUI built in Rust — native, lightweight, zero learning curve.

RustGrid is a cross-platform (Windows / macOS / Linux) database management tool built with Rust + GPUI. Its layout and interactions follow Navicat, so switching costs nothing: the connection tree, object lists, toolbars and dialogs all behave the way you already expect.

Screenshots

1. Connection tree & object list	2. Table data grid — paginated, in-place editing
3. Backup & restore — the .rgbak container	4. SQL editor — highlighting, completion, results

Highlights

• Native, not a WebView — GPU-rendered GPUI elements, no browser engine, a single binary.
• Navicat-compatible — the same connection tree, object panes, toolbars and dialogs.
• Extensible drivers — an engine-agnostic driver layer; new engines never touch the UI.
• Apache-2.0 — free for commercial use.

Supported databases

Features

• Connections — create / edit / delete, connect, password prompt; passwords are encrypted on disk (XChaCha20-Poly1305) and never stored in a profile.
• Databases — enumerate, create / edit / delete with charset and collation.
• Tables & views — browse tables and views, a paginated grid with in-place editing, and drop / empty / truncate / rename operations.
• SQL editor — syntax highlighting, keyword/table completion, beautify, explain, and saved named queries.
• Import & export wizards — Excel, CSV and TXT.
• Users & routines — account and privilege management, plus stored-routine and view designers.
• Backup & restore — RustGrid's own .rgbak container.
• Themes & languages — light / dark / system, English / 简体中文.

Build from source

Prerequisite: Rust stable (edition 2024; the toolchain is pinned in rust-toolchain.toml).

git clone https://github.com/yisier/rustgrid.git
cd rustgrid
cargo run -p rustgrid-app

The produced binary is named RustGrid.

On Windows a linker and C compiler are required (for sqlx's ring). With MSVC Build Tools installed the default toolchain works; otherwise use the GNU toolchain:

$env:RUSTUP_TOOLCHAIN="stable-x86_64-pc-windows-gnu"
$env:CARGO_TARGET_X86_64_PC_WINDOWS_GNU_LINKER="gcc"
$env:CC="gcc"
cargo run -p rustgrid-app

Project layout (Cargo workspace)

• crates/rustgrid-core — engine-agnostic domain: driver/connection traits and models.
• crates/rustgrid-mysql — MySQL and MariaDB drivers.
• crates/rustgrid-sqlite — SQLite driver.
• crates/rustgrid-sqlserver — SQL Server driver.
• crates/rustgrid-postgresql — PostgreSQL driver.
• crates/rustgrid-oracle — Oracle driver (Oracle's pure-Rust oracledb thin driver, no Instant Client).
• crates/rustgrid-tunnel — shared SSH / SOCKS5 / HTTP tunnel used by the network drivers.
• crates/rustgrid-odbc — generic ODBC driver (DB2, Dameng, ...).
• crates/rustgrid-backup — the .rgbak backup container.
• crates/rustgrid-export — table-data exporters (.xlsx / .csv / .sql / .txt).
• crates/rustgrid-import — Excel / CSV / TXT source readers.
• crates/rustgrid-config — versioned settings/profiles and encrypted secret storage.
• crates/rustgrid-app — the GPUI desktop application (binary RustGrid).

License

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. Commercial use is permitted. See the LICENSE file for the full text.

Status

Early and evolving quickly — features, UI and on-disk formats may change without notice.