The creater of dbcli answered this question in the other usql thread [0] > usql is a great tool if you're familiar with Postgres' psql client and wish you coul

The creater of dbcli answered this question in the other usql thread [0] > usql is a great tool if you're familiar with Postgres' psql client and wish you could use it for other databases like MySQL, Cassandra etc. > dbcli tools are designed to preserve the usage semantics of the existing tools but improve on them by providing auto-completion. For instance you can use `\d` in pgcli and `SHOW TABLES` in mycli. This was a conscious decision to make pgcli and mycli drop in replacements for of MySQL and psql. I was also working under the assumption that people rarely use multiple databases, you're either a postgres shop or a MySQL shop. If you have a mix of both, there is a good chance that not a single person is interacting with both of them on a daily basis. You have different teams using different databases. But my reasoning there could be flawed. > There is nothing stopping someone from adding an adapter to the usql tool to make it behave like MySQL (because they like the mysql client better) based on a command line argument, for instance. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17303625 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17303625