The community edition (CE) of DBeaver is a free and open source software that is distributed under the Apache License.

It was supposed to be free and open-source with a good-looking and convenient UI and to include frequently used features for database developers.

[3][4] In the same year, the official web site was founded and the community support forum (now moved to GitHub) was created.

[6] Shortly after, various software vendors started to integrate with DBeaver (mostly as an extensions to their proprietary Eclipse RCP products: Zend Studio,[7] NXTware,[8] DeltaDNA,[9] etc.).

The EE version is based on CE but also provides support of NoSQL/BigData databases (Cassandra, MongoDB and Redis) and includes a few additional Eclipse plugins.

DBeaver is a cross-platform tool and works on platforms which are supported by Eclipse (Windows, Linux, macOS, Solaris), it is available in English, Chinese, Russian, Italian, and German.