"Replibyte" is a toy. This thing operates seriously on database dumps - a text file full of "insert" statements (what DBMS often generates like this, but no guarantee)
Do you mean it is a toy because it only works on database dumps or..? I can imagine that querying, filtering and traversing relations will be harder with only a textual dump.
It operates on database dumps. That alone is absurd. Database dumps are not public interfaces. And they are really not suitable for mass data processing.
You have a DBMS available, but all you ask from it is a dump of all data in a format that can only be used as an archive or transfer format. And yet you think you can process this data reasonably?
> would you expect to be congratulated on your unusually high IQ?
I guess your "you" is not directed at me, as I basically wondered the same.
Replibyte seems like to use a highly unpractical way as I explained, but I meant to ask wether you only found the implementation to be bad, or that you also found it lacking in other terms.
Moreover, it is not just a "tool", but "tools". In addition to the data browser that you are talking about here, there is also the "subsetter" (for extracting consistent subsets of a database). And for sure this tool is unique.
The tool is aimed more at developers/quality assurance specialists. So people who have a more technical view of the data. It is therefore not much about business cases.
Furthermore, the relationships do not have to be defined manually either. Rather, they are automatically recognized based on the database metadata. (However, manual entry is also possible).
Is this supposed to be a generic drop in replacement for cross platform admin tools like Dbgate or Dbeaver? Or is it more of a specialized tool to do a specific thing?
