Test Drive: Induction - The Everything Database Client for Mac

06 Mar 2012

Join me for a quick demo of Induction, the latest project by @Mattt from Heroku. Induction will let you view your data-stores including: PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite, Redis, MongoDB, and so much more. The alpha product also lets you run queries, and visualize data.

Induction is completely free and open source, for more info visit the website or clone the repo.

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