enQuery, being the first piece of the much larger enQuery project is a long term replacement for the Query Tools found in both PostgreSQL for Mac and the ODBCKit projects. It is a merging of code from 3 different projects. The ideas that came together from several project form the basis of the enQuery project.

ODBCKit and PGSQLKit both started as means to an end that became project in their own rights. The enQuery project takes those ideas and builds on them. Starting with the foundation tool that is enQuery. At it's most basic, enQuery is an ad-hoc SQL tool for creating and running queries against databases. In it's commercial version, it supports multiple database types right out of the box.

For version 1, those databases will be PostgreSQL and any ODBC datasource that is supported on the Mac platform. Eventually, these will be expanded to other data engines, like Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, SQLLite and potentially others. From there, the project will be able to expand to offer more than just ad-hoc reporting...

On the Mac platform, there exists a few options in the realm of the Relational Database Management System. Unfortunately, these systems are all either very pricey, or have poor support from applications because they lack either marketshare or mindshare. Today there is a huge amount of support for several open source products, of which PostgreSQL is among the best, and with a very commercial friendly licensing terms, it is a very attractive database for the Mac user, developer and enterprise all.

Highly scalable, and with an excellent support base in the open source community, bringing high quality tools and support the PostgreSQL on the Mac platform seems a natural fit, and that is the intent here. Providing a base of a solid server package in addition to lightweight management and client tools. In addition to that free base there are support contracts available, as well as CD installers.