Officially released in March 2002, the Windows version of Navicat for MySQL became the first product offered to the public by PremiumSoft. It supports Linux platform via bundled Wine. Upon purchase, users are able to select a language for the software from eleven available languages: English, French, German, Spanish, Japanese, Polish, Russian, Portuguese, Korean, Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese. Navicat is a cross-platform tool and works on Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X and Linux platforms. In 2008, Navicat for MySQL was the winner of the Hong Kong ICT 2008 Award of the Year, Best Business Grand Award and Best Business (Product) Gold Award.

The main target of the initial version was to simplify the management of MySQL installations. The initial version of Navicat was developed by Mr. Its design is made to meet the needs of a variety of audiences, from database administrators and programmers to various businesses/companies that serve clients and share information with partners. It has an Explorer-like graphical user interface and supports multiple database connections for local and remote databases. for MySQL, MariaDB, MongoDB, Oracle, SQLite, PostgreSQL and Microsoft SQL Server.

Navicat is a series of graphical database management and development software produced by CyberTech Ltd. SQL database management and development system

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