DBHawk Frequently Asked Questions

DBHawk is your all-in-one, web-based platform for secure database management and development. Our unified, browser-based interface gives you a powerful and efficient way to access, analyze, and manage multiple databases from a single location, whether they're on-premise or in the cloud.

Powerful Security and Control

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Protecting your data is our top priority. DBHawk provides a robust suite of security features to give you peace of mind.

• Comprehensive Monitoring: Our Database Activity Monitoring (DAM) meticulously audits all database activities, giving you a clear, detailed log of who did what and when.
• Patented Access Control: With our patented object access control policy, you can precisely limit access to specific database objects. This enforces the principle of least privilege, ensuring users only see what they need to.
• Dynamic Data Masking: Provide users with access to data while automatically obscuring sensitive information. This gives you granular control over data visibility, protecting your information even when it's being actively used.

Enhanced Productivity for Your Team

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DBHawk is built to boost your team's productivity and collaboration.

• Seamless Development: Our platform includes a powerful web-based IDE for intricate SQL queries, and a visual query builder for ad-hoc analysis.
• Effortless Automation: Automate routine tasks like exporting data to formats like JSON, CSV, and Excel, or delivering data to SFTP or email.
• Real-time Collaboration: Work with your team in real time, no matter where they are.
• Intuitive Data Visualization: Gain in-depth insights by analyzing your data with interactive charts and graphs.

DBHawk simplifies complex tasks and helps you get the most out of your data. It supports popular SQL and NoSQL databases, including MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQL Server, and MongoDB. As a powerful replacement for traditional client-server tools like Toad and Oracle SQL Developer, DBHawk streamlines your workflow and unifies your database operations.

By using DBHawk, users can enjoy the following benefits:

• DBHawk secures your data with a patented object access control policy, dynamic data masking, and detailed Database Activity Monitoring, ensuring precise and protected access for all users
• Powerful automation tools to streamline data migration & transformation processes
• Interactive charts & graphs for visualizing data in real time
• User-friendly interface that is easy to learn and use
• Innovative features to make database administration easier than ever before
• No need to install any client-server tool on any machine. Secure browser-based access

You get what you pay for!

DBHawk is designed to make life easier for database administrators and SQL developers by providing an easy-to-use, secure, and unified platform for managing multiple databases from different vendors. DBHawk’s intuitive user interface simplifies common tasks like query building, data visualization, security settings management, creating tables and users, running reports and analytics with ease.

It also provides a secure environment for accessing and managing databases from any device or location. Since it's a web-based tool, there's no need to install any software on your machine.

Finally, DBHawk is secure and allows for access from any device or location. All of these features make DBHawk a great choice for developers, admins and business users alike.

DBHawk can be purchased with an annual license term. Annual License will allow customers to use the DBHawk for one year and entitle a customer to download updates to the software and to receive technical support and maintenance. Our license model is named user/year with yearly commitment. For pricing details please visit DBHawk Pricing page.

DBHawk offers powerful security features to protect the data and ensure the safety of databases. It offers comprehensive authentication and authorization services with secure user access control, encryption for data communication, as well as automated audit logging and reporting. Additionally, DBHawk provides extra security measures such as built-in two factor authentication (2FA) and multi-factor authentication (MFA) to authenticate users securely. Password less access to your databases with AWS secrets manager, Azure key vaults or GCP secrets manager. Finally, it also supports role based access control to limit which employees can access specific database objects. All of these features help ensure that sensitive information is kept safe from unauthorized eyes.

DBHawk is 100% browser-based and no Java or any other file requires on the user’s machine.

DBHawk is as secure as your current applications. Most of our customer use DBHawk to get and give secure access to their databases. DBHawk works with your current security measures such as SSL and firewalls. It is developed using advanced web-based technologies. DBHawk uses AES-256 encryption to store all DBHawk related data. All internal DBHawk data are encrypted with the customer’s own encryption key and salt mechanism. DBHawk provides a secured login with 2-factor authentication. DBHawk supports SAML, LDAP, OKTA and SSO. DBHawk runs on the server and hence it provides central security and database activities monitoring. DBHawk can be deployed on on-premise or hosted in the cloud. Customers do not require to open up a firewall or share any data with us. A customer has total control over their data.

Absolutely, DBHawk runs on the server and provides central security. All database activities are logged, all SQL queries are logged. DBHawk access control provides extra security for database objects access. Customers can use DBHawk to achieve HIPAA, SOX, GDPR or other data related compliance.

Yes, you can install DBHawk in the cloud infrastructure and connect to your databases. Using DBHawk, you can connect to your databases within your VPN/VPC.

Yes, you can configure DBHawk to export and import data on AWS S3.

Yes, DBHawk provides various API and SAML based SSO for easy integration with other applications. Some of our customers use DBHawk to integrate with their offerings. It adds value to their offering and provides secure access to their customer’s databases to customers.

No infrastructure, no problem, we offer a SaaS solution also.

No, you don’t need to install any database client or any plug-in to access DBHawk. You just need a modern web browser!

DBHawk is developed using Java-based web technologies, so it will run on the platform where java can run. Supported platforms are Windows, Linux & MacOS. DBHawk can also deployed with Docker or Kubernetes.

Current DBHawk requires Java 17 or higher.

DBHawk is supported with Tomcat Server and included in the software build.

DBHawk is supported with Oracle, Db2, SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Amazon RDS, Amazon Aurora, Azure SQL, Amazon Redshift, Greenplum, Netezza, Teradata, SAP-Hana, MariaDB, MongoDB, DynamoDB, Amazon Athena (S3), Cassandra, Vertica, Snowflake, Exasol, Databricks, Google BigQuery, SingleStore, Presto and many other JDBC compliant databases.

It is easy to install. The complete installation process takes less than 30 minutes.

Yes, DBHawk supports responsive design and all our charts/dashboards look awesome on the mobile devices.

Yes, DBHawk is designed to make SQL automation a breeze. We believe a user should not spend time doing repetitive tasks. You can schedule various jobs and receive results by email, sftp or save on the disk.

Yes, DBHawk support import-export data with Microsoft Excel and also with CSV formats.

DBHawk can be customized according to your needs. It is designed and developed such a way that customization is very easy to achieve within a short duration.