Compare the Top Enterprise Database Performance Tuning Tools as of May 2025

What are Enterprise Database Performance Tuning Tools?

Database performance tuning tools are software tools that optimize database performance and efficiency. They analyze query execution, indexing, and resource utilization to identify bottlenecks and suggest improvements. These tools often provide real-time monitoring, performance diagnostics, and automated recommendations to enhance speed and reduce latency. They support a wide range of databases, including SQL, NoSQL, and cloud-based systems, ensuring optimal resource usage. By using these tools, businesses can improve application responsiveness, reduce downtime, and maintain a high-performing data environment. Compare and read user reviews of the best Enterprise Database Performance Tuning tools currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.

  • 1
    ManageEngine Applications Manager
    ManageEngine Applications Manager is an enterprise-ready platform designed to monitor an entire application ecosystem of a business organization. Our platform helps IT and DevOps teams get visibility into all the dependent components within their application stack. With Applications Manager, it becomes easier to monitor the performance of mission-critical web applications, web servers, databases, cloud services, middleware, ERP systems, messaging components, and more. It has tons of features that fast-track the troubleshooting process and help reduce MTTR. This way, issues are fixed before application end-users are affected. Applications Manager has a fully functional dashboard that can be customized to get performance insights at a glance. By configuring alerts, it constantly keeps a lookout for performance issues within the application stack. Combining this with intelligent machine learning, Applications Manager helps turn performance data into actionable insights.
    Starting Price: $395.00/Year
  • 2
    Percona Server for MySQL
    Percona Server for MySQL is a free, fully-compatible, enhanced, open source drop-in replacement for MySQL. It provides superior performance, scalability, and instrumentation. With over 5,300,000 downloads, Percona Server’s self-tuning algorithms and support for extremely high-performance hardware delivers excellent performance and reliability Percona Server for MySQL delivers enterprise-grade features and higher uptime, along with a number of key benefits that improve database performance and efficiency. It provides more time to focus on key priorities, as users need to spend less time on tuning and administering. Percona is a market leader in providing best-of-breed enterprise-class software, support, consulting, managed services, and training for on-premise and cloud-based open source databases. Percona was founded on the belief that everyone should have access to scalable, secure, efficient, and resilient database software features, without inflated fees or vendor lock-in.
    Leader badge
    Starting Price: Free
  • 3
    DataGrip

    DataGrip

    JetBrains

    Meet DataGrip, our new database IDE that is tailored to suit the specific needs of professional SQL developers. Allows you to execute queries in different modes and provides a local history that keeps track of all your activity and protects you from losing your work. Lets you jump to any table, view, or procedure by its name via the corresponding action, or directly from its usages in the SQL code. Gives you an extended insight into how your queries work and into the database engine behavior, so you can make your queries more efficient. DataGrip provides context-sensitive code completion, helping you to write SQL code faster. Completion is aware of the tables structure, foreign keys, and even database objects created in code you're editing. DataGrip detects probable bugs in your code and suggests the best options to fix them on the fly. It will immediately let you know about unresolved objects, using keywords as identifiers and always offers a way to fix the problems.
    Starting Price: $199 per year
  • 4
    SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer
    Quickly pinpoint performance issues with SolarWinds® Database Performance Analyzer (DPA) while providing expert advice with tuning advisors. Anomaly detection powered by machine learning allows DBAs to proactively optimize databases before small issues become big problems. Real-time analysis with 24/7 monitoring and automated alerts provides the time an error occurred instead of just knowing it was “sometime last week.” DPA helps ease the use of more than 20 cross-platform databases in hybrid, on-premises and cloud environments.
  • 5
    Oracle SQL Developer
    Oracle SQL Developer is a free, integrated development environment that simplifies the development and management of Oracle Database in both traditional and Cloud deployments. SQL Developer offers complete end-to-end development of your PL/SQL applications, a worksheet for running queries and scripts, a DBA console for managing the database, a reports interface, a complete data modeling solution, and a migration platform for moving your 3rd party databases to Oracle. Run your sql and sql scripts, manage users, create and edit objects, import data to new or existing tables, diagnose performance issues, visualize your schemas, and much more. The power of your favorite desktop tool, in your browser. Available with Oracle REST Data Services for your on-premises instances. Migrate Oracle On-Premises to Oracle Cloud. Click, browse, and managed the contents of your Oracle Database.
  • 6
    OtterTune

    OtterTune

    OtterTune

    Choosing from 100s of database tuning knobs is no problem for our AI. Let it do the work for you so you can have your life back. Monitor your database performance to gain insights and automatically adjust your configuration as workloads change. Built for today’s cloud databases, OtterTune doesn’t touch any user data, but fine-tunes your DBaaS operations behind the scenes. OtterTune is not just a fancy frontend to a few tools - but a revolutionary machine learning and machine training platform that makes the database backend run in the best possible scenario, now and in the future. OtterTune uses machine learning to actively tune your database. Simply select a target objective to optimize (e.g., throughput, latency, cost) and OtterTune automatically updates 100+ configuration settings to improve that target. Don't get surprised by outages or performance drops. OtterTune monitors your database and collects metrics about your workload.
    Starting Price: $550/per month
  • 7
    dbForge Studio for SQL Server
    dbForge Studio for SQL Server is a comprehensive platform with an intuitive graphical user interface and robust functionality that enables users to handle a variety of database-related tasks both on-premises and in the cloud. Key Features: T-SQL editor with intelligent code completion, debugging, formatting, and more Database schema and data comparison and synchronization Source Control with support for all popular version control systems Visual database designer with ER diagrams. Visual Query Builder for constructing complex T-SQL queries Data import and export Data generator of high-quality test data Real-time database monitoring Query Profiler with analysis and optimization Data analysis, visualization, and reporting Automatic database documenting Task automation via the Command line dbForge Studio for SQL Server is a powerful alternative to SSMS. It offers the features of the default SQL Server IDE along with many additional tools and options.
    Starting Price: $229.95
  • 8
    SQL Diagnostic Manager for SQL Server

    SQL Diagnostic Manager for SQL Server

    IDERA, an Idera, Inc. company

    SQL Diagnostic Manager for SQL Server helps database administrators to find and fix SQL Server performance problems in physical, virtual, and cloud environments. Unlike its competition, it provides effective scalability, advanced SQL query analysis and optimization, prescriptive analysis with corrective SQL scripts, powerful automated alert responses, broad PowerShell integration, complete customization, and extensive support for current and legacy SQL Server and Windows.
    Starting Price: $1,996 per instance
  • 9
    SQL Sentry

    SQL Sentry

    SolarWinds

    Stop wasting time trying to fix SQL Server performance problems. Are you constantly fighting database performance fires, looking in vain for the root cause of SQL Server slowdowns? Without the right information, you could waste valuable time looking in the wrong places for the answers to your performance problems. You need accurate, actionable, detailed metrics to quickly identify and address database problems. With SQL Sentry, you can effectively monitor, diagnose, and optimize your entire database environment. SQL Sentry helps you get out of fire-fighting mode so you can keep your databases running continuously at peak performance. SQL Sentry gives you the level of detail you need to find and fix SQL Server performance problems. SQL Sentry is the flagship product in the SentryOne monitoring solutions set, and was built by SQL Server experts to help you save time and frustration in troubleshooting database performance problems.
    Starting Price: $1,628
  • 10
    dbForge Edge
    dbForge Edge is the newest Devart product - the multidatabase software solution covers all database-related jobs, allowing its users to accelerate the tasks' completion, save costs, and improve overall productivity. A set of powerful features applies to all most popular database management systems - MySQL and MariaDB, SQL Server, Oracle, and PostgreSQL. Notice the most helpful features of dbForge Edge: Database design & development. Convert ER diagrams to actual databases or reverse-engineer databases. SQL coding assistance. Visual query building. Query profiling. Database comparison & synchronization. Deploy changes to the target databases on different platforms. Data management. Data import/export. Data analysis and reporting. Database administration.
    Starting Price: $99.95
  • 11
    SQL Query Tuner

    SQL Query Tuner

    IDERA, an Idera, Inc. company

    SQL Query Tuner helps database administrators to tune and profile SQL code for SQL Server. Unlike its competition, it provides automated SQL tuning and performance optimization suggestions with color-coded index analysis, database profiling of wait-time analysis for a single stored routine or an entire data source, SQL stress load testing to simulate a production environment with parallel users and executions over a specific period of time or execution cycle, and review of SQL execution and performance costs using explain plans.
    Starting Price: $400 per instance
  • 12
    DB Optimizer

    DB Optimizer

    IDERA, an Idera, Inc. company

    DB Optimizer helps database administrators to tune and profile SQL code across database platforms. Unlike its competition, it provides automated SQL tuning and performance optimization suggestions with color-coded index analysis, database profiling of wait-time analysis for a single stored routine or an entire data source, SQL stress load testing to simulate a production environment with parallel users and executions over a specific period of time or execution cycle, and review of SQL execution and performance costs using explain plans.
    Starting Price: $572 per user (workstation_
  • 13
    DB PowerStudio

    DB PowerStudio

    IDERA, an Idera, Inc. company

    Administer, manage changes, tune queries, and develop relational databases. Database professionals need to minimize the time and effort spent on the routine management and development of databases across the organization. To address this challenge, benefit from IDERA’s bundle of top tools for the management and development of multiple database platforms. Perform database administration. Automate and manage complex database schema changes. Automate SQL query tuning and profiling. Develop SQL code efficiently.
    Starting Price: $1,699.20 per user
  • 14
    MongoDB Atlas
    The most innovative cloud database service on the market, with unmatched data distribution and mobility across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud, built-in automation for resource and workload optimization, and so much more. MongoDB Atlas is the global cloud database service for modern applications. Deploy fully managed MongoDB across AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure with best-in-class automation and proven practices that guarantee availability, scalability, and compliance with the most demanding data security and privacy standards. The best way to deploy, run, and scale MongoDB in the cloud. MongoDB Atlas offers built-in security controls for all your data. Enable enterprise-grade features to integrate with your existing security protocols and compliance standards. With MongoDB Atlas, your data is protected with preconfigured security features for authentication, authorization, encryption, and more.
    Starting Price: $0.08/hour
  • 15
    EMS SQL Management Studio
    EMS SQL Management Studio for PostgreSQL is a complete solution for PostgreSQL database administration and development. The single workbench provides you with must-have tools for managing PostgreSQL databases and objects, as well as for database design, migration, extraction, query building, data import and export, database comparison, and running service tasks. Get access to all databases and their objects from a single console and manage them with a user-friendly interface. You can create and modify all server and database objects, set necessary properties, and view detailed info in advanced visual editors. Transfer structure changes from development to production database automatically with Compare databases tool. Create ER diagrams for newly developed databases to quickly deploy them. Create database maintenance tasks with advanced options and let SQL Studio run them on a regular basis.
    Starting Price: $260 one-time payment
  • 16
    dbForge Studio for MySQL
    dbForge Studio for MySQL is a multi-featured IDE that covers nearly every aspect of MySQL and MariaDB development, management, administration, data analysis, and reporting. The rich feature set of the Studio is augmented by a clean and intuitive GUI and CLI-powered automation capabilities. Key features: Database Development. dbForge Studio for MySQL offers quite a few features to streamline routine SQL coding and ensure the high quality of the output. Database Design. In terms of database design, the Studio provides visual object editors and handy functionality that helps you visualize databases on entity-relationship diagrams. Database Management. The Studio delivers a set of features for effective and versatile database management. Data Analysis & Reporting. dbForge Studio for MySQL facilitates data aggregation, analysis, and reporting. Database Administration. There are also integrated features to ensure quick and smooth database administration.
    Starting Price: $9.95
  • 17
    dbForge Studio for PostgreSQL
    dbForge Studio for PostgreSQL is a GUI tool for database development and management. The IDE for PostgreSQL allows users to create, develop, and execute queries, edit and adjust the code to your requirements in a convenient and user-friendly interface. The tool provides a data editing tool to customize your queries and property window so that users can view all the required information of PostgreSQL database objects they are interested in. Key features: *SQL Development. Save your time and improve code quality when creating and editing queries. *Explorer. Navigate through the object tree and find any PostgreSQL object you want. *Data Editor. Users can manage the settings of tables. *Data Export and Data Import. Supports 10+ widely used data formats, a number of advanced options, and templates for recurring scenarios. *Query Profiler. *Data and Schema Compare. *Data Generator. *Pivot Table.
    Starting Price: $89.95
  • 18
    dbForge Studio for Oracle
    dbForge Studio for Oracle is a powerful integrated development environment (IDE) which helps Oracle SQL developers to increase PL/SQL coding speed, provides versatile data editing tools for managing in-database and external data. This Oracle IDE allows synchronizing data between different Oracle servers and automating schema change management process during development. dbForge Oracle GUI features powerful functionality wrapped into a smooth management Oracle GUI consistent with Microsoft Visual Studio. Key features: * PL/SQL coding assistant * Database Project * Oracle Database Management * Data Generator * Documenter * Object Manager * Oracle PL/SQL Debugger * Query Builder * Query Profiler * Schema Import/Export * Database Administration * Database Designer * Import/Export Data * Report and Analysis * Find Object You can always find the latest version of the product on the official Devart website.
    Starting Price: $149.95
  • 19
    SQL Manager

    SQL Manager

    EMS Software

    SQL Manager for PostgreSQL provides a set of easy-to-use visual editors for any database or server objects. You can create complex queries visually or use editor tool with code completion, code folding, formatting and many other useful features. You can adjust editor view to meet your requirements. Query results can be easily exported to any format. Manipulate data with filters, grouping, sorting and sub-levels, view it as JSON, Image or XML and export it into any of popular formats, including XLSX, CSV, TXT, XML, SQL and more. Advanced import from MS Excel, MS Access, DBF, XML, ODF, TXT, CSV, etc. with selecting the method of adding data to the already existing tables, as well as processing or replacing of inserted data. Data export into a variety of popular formats: MS Excel, MS Word, MS Access, HTML, PDF, TXT, CSV, DBF, XML, ODF and more with flexible setting for the result data view.
  • 20
    ApexSQL

    ApexSQL

    Quest Software

    We strive to ensure that all of our tools are “Best of class” in their respective category. We pride ourselves on our product support which we are frequently told is the best in our industry. We are constantly innovating, releasing new features and new tools on an aggressive schedule. Auditing and masking capabilities to keep sensitive data safe, discover and manage SQL Server instances and perform health and security checks. Achieve dramatic reductions in SQL Server backup/restore times and storage costs. Choose the best combination of CPU resource utilization and backup storage size reduction for your environment with eight compression levels. Ensure that no data or structure changes are lost during backup restores by capturing transactions made during the backup process and replaying them. Rollback truncate operation and recover lost data.
  • 21
    EDB Postgres Advanced Server
    An enhanced version of PostgreSQL that is continuously synchronized with PostgreSQL's with enhancements for Security, DBA and Developer features and Oracle database compatibility. Manage deployment, high availability and automated failover from Kubernetes. Deploy anywhere with lightweight, immutable Postgres containers. Automate with failover, switchover, backup, recovery, and rolling updates. Operator and images are portable to any cloud so you can avoid lock-in. Overcome containerization and Kubernetes challenges with our experts. Oracle compatibility means you can leave your legacy database without starting over. Migrate database and client applications faster with fewer rewrite problems. Improve the end-user experience by tuning and boosting performance. Deploy on-premises, in the cloud, or both. In a world where downtime means revenue loss, High Availability is key for business continuity.
    Starting Price: $1000.00/one-time
  • 22
    SQL Diagnostic Manager for MySQL
    Analyze disk space usage by displaying the number of databases with their data and index sizes to see which MySQL and MariaDB servers take up the most space. View snapshots and charts of disk space occupied by databases on servers and tables in databases to quickly spot the largest databases and tables. Easily understand the complete security, availability, health, and performance of all MySQL and MariaDB servers in a single, modern, and intuitive web console. Access hundreds of monitors that examine the configuration and security of servers automatically. Identify and alert on security vulnerabilities and tuning opportunities via expert advice. Set up users who have limited access to specified servers and settings. Specify the type of user, role, and allowed and disallowed actions, tags, and tabs. Manage user access to prevent accidental actions, executing non-reversible operations, and changing server settings without administrator knowledge.
  • 23
    DBArtisan
    Proactively manage all major DBMSs (SQL Server, Azure SQL Database, Oracle Database, Sybase ASE and IQ, Db2 LUW and z/OS, Redshift, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Greenplum) from a single common interface. Reduce training requirements and streamline collaboration among different teams across the organization. Manage multiple Oracle-specific schema object types and SQL Server advanced object properties such as temporal tables, in-memory tables, and natively compiled triggers, procedures and functions. Comprehensive tools help you manage space, data and performance to keep your databases optimized and available. Manage the performance of your databases with a built-in process monitor that helps you understand who is connected to your database along with each user's current activity and session-related data. Sophisticated diagnostics help you pinpoint performance inefficiencies that result in poor space management, tracking key database metadata and performance metrics over time.
  • Previous
  • You're on page 1
  • Next