Database tools live outside
DataGrip on your laptop. Azure Data Studio on your work machine. pgAdmin somewhere else. Every tool requires separate credential management, VPN access, and local installation.
DB Loadr is your database studio inside the Workbench. Credentials are stored once, secured by Zentinelle, accessible from your workspace. No local installs. No credential juggling. Your data, where you work.
Centralized Credentials
.env files scattered across machines.
Shared Org Config
AI-Assisted Queries
What is DB Loadr?
DB Loadr is Calliope AI’s database access, query, and data management studio. It runs inside your Workbench and connects to 22+ database types — removing the need for a separate database client application on your local machine.
Think of it as DataGrip or Azure Data Studio, but running inside your secure, governed cloud workspace — with credentials managed by your organization, not by individual developers.
Supported connectors
Relational: PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, SQLite, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, CockroachDB, TimescaleDB
Cloud Data Warehouses: Snowflake, Google BigQuery, Amazon Redshift, Azure Synapse, Databricks
NoSQL & Document: MongoDB, Redis, Cassandra, DynamoDB
File-based: CSV, Parquet, JSON (via EFS filesystem)
API & More: REST API sources, additional connectors via configuration
How credentials work
Database credentials in DB Loadr are managed at three levels:
- Org defaults — DBA or platform team configures shared connections once in
/shared/loadr/config/ - User credentials — Individual credentials stored at
~/.loadr/config.yamlin the user’s EFS home - Zentinelle governance — All credential access is logged and auditable
No credentials ever touch a developer’s local machine. Access is scoped to the Workbench session.
DB Loadr vs. DataGrip / Azure Data Studio
The key difference isn’t features — it’s where it runs.
DataGrip and Azure Data Studio are excellent desktop tools. But they require:
- Local installation on every developer machine
- Credentials stored locally or in a password manager
- VPN access to reach internal databases
- Individual setup for every new hire
DB Loadr runs inside your Calliope AI Workbench — which already has network access to your data infrastructure, already has credentials governed by Zentinelle, and is already set up for every user who joins your org.
DB Loadr puts a full database studio inside your Calliope AI Workbench. Credentials managed by your org. Access governed by Zentinelle. No database client to install, maintain, or secure on developer laptops.
