Database Schema Design Tool Mac Free

Database Schema Drawing Tools

AnyDAC

ArgoUML

ConceptDraw

Data Architect

Database Designer for PostgreSQL and MySQL and MSSQL

Database Master

DBDesigner 4

DB Designer Fork

DbSchema

DB Solo

DeZign for Databases

Dia

Dico

Druid

ER Studio from Embarcadero Technologies

ER/Win

GraphViz2 (A Perl module)

HTSQL

LinqConnect

Meta Integration

ModelRight

OmniGraffle

PlantUML

Poseidon for UML Community Edition

Quick Database Diagrams

Rose

Schemester

SQLFairy aka SQL::Translator

SQL Maestro

TCM

TOAD Data Modeler

Visio

VisioModeler

Visual Thought

WWW SQL Designer

XCase

XERD

Similar Lists

Author

Versions of this Document

Licence

Database Schema Drawing Tools

This is a simple collection of notes about software drawing tools.

Some of these tools are specifically for database schemas, and some for modelling in general.

Contributions started via the Perl DBI users mailing list (dbi-users-subscribe@perl.org), but anyone can email me re additions and corrections.

I have extracted bits and pieces from peoples' emails, and coincidentally from some of my students, who are using various of the packages this very week. So, the 'Comments' section should be regarded as personal, but very rarely from me.

Many thanks to all those who replied to my posting (May, 2003) on the list.

Tools are listed in alphabetical order.

AnyDAC

Home: http://www.da-soft.com/anydac/

Comment: A Delphi, C++Builder and FreePascal interface to various database servers.

Price: $399 (single user); $1795 (site).

ArgoUML

Home: http://argouml.tigris.org/

Comment: A UML design tool with cognitive support (Their home page)

Comment: Poseidon for UML (below) is an extension of ArgoUML.

Price: Free

ConceptDraw

Home: http://www.conceptdraw.com/en/products/cd5/main.php

OS: Mac and Windows

Languages: English, German, French, Spanish

Price: $299 (Academic pricing available)

Data Architect

Home: http://www.thekompany.com/home/

OS: Linux, MS Windows and Mac OS X

Price: $59.95 USD

Database Designer for PostgreSQL and MySQL and MSSQL

Home: http://microolap.com/products/database/postgresql-designer

OS: Windows 2000, XP, 2003

Price: Personal/Business/Commercial/Educational

Database Master

Home: http://www.nucleonsoftware.com/DatabaseMaster.aspx

OS: Windows (presumably)

Price: Single $39/Site $390

DBDesigner 4

Home: http://www.fabforce.net/dbdesigner4/

Comments: It works nicely but, doesn't work on MacOS X :( says Billy

Licence: GPL

OS: Linux, Windows.

DB Designer Fork

Home: https://sourceforge.net/projects/dbdesigner-fork/

Comments: DB Designer Fork is a fork of fabFORCE's DBDesigner 4

Licence: GPL

OS: Linux, Windows

Supports: Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL and FireBird, and - reportedly - Postgres via ODBC

DbSchema

Home: http://www.dbschema.com/

OS: Various.

Requires: Java Runtime Environment 1.4.

Price: $45.

DB Solo

Comment: Cross-platform database development and management tool.

Home: http://www.dbsolo.com/

OS: Various.

Price: 1 .. 5 users: $129 USD.

DeZign for Databases

Home: http://www.datanamic.com/

Note: Supported databases - Many

OS: Windows

Price: Standard 195 euro/Professional 345 euro/Expert 595 euro

Dia

Home: http://www.lysator.liu.se/~alla/dia/

Comments: Can be awkward to use

OS: Linux and MS Windows

Price: Free

Dico

Home: http://www.guh-software.de/dico_en.html

Comments: Dico is a Java application to display database-schema.

OS: Windows, Linux, and perhaps Mac OS X and Solaris

Requires: Java

Price: 39 euros for a single user. See web site for details.

Druid

Home: http://druid.sourceforge.net/

Licence: GNU GPL

Requires: Java

Price: Free

ER Studio from Embarcadero Technologies

Comment: Can do forward and reverse engineering

Comment: ER Studio is a fine product, but Visio has my interest because of the power of the drawing component. Since they added on database connectivity it could give these others a run for their money (Tim Harsch)

Comment: I've used ER Studio for several years now and it really is a useful tool (if you've got a few grand lying around) (Tim Harsch)

ER/Win

Comment: Can do forward and reverse engineering

GraphViz2 (A Perl module)

Comment: This is the one to use. It is a complete re-write of the original GraphViz

Source: See CPAN or https://savage.net.au/Perl-modules.html

Price: Free

HTSQL

Home: http://htsql.org/

Comment: A URI-based high-level query language

Price: Use of HTSQL with open source databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite) is royalty free under BSD-style conditions. Usage of HTSQL with proprietary database systems (Oracle, Microsoft SQL) requires a commercial license.

LinqConnect

Home: http://www.devart.com/linqconnect/

Comment: Offers .NET connectivity to SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, Postgres and SQLite.

OS: Windows

Price: $149 .. $1499

Meta Integration

Home: http://www.metaintegration.net/

Comment: A suite of packages

Comment: See http://www.metaintegration.net/Products/MIMB/SupportedTools.html

Price: http://www.metaintegration.net/Products/Pricing.html

ModelRight

Home: http://modelright.com/

OS: Windows

Price: $395 for Oracle, $195 for MySQL. Presumably US$

OmniGraffle

Comment: OmniGraffle is a fine piece of software (David Steinbrunner)

Home: http://www.omnigroup.com/applications/omnigraffle/

OS: Mac X (ie FreeBSD)

PlantUML

Home: http://plantuml.com/

Price: Free.

Poseidon for UML Community Edition

Home: http://www.gentleware.de/products/poseidonCE.php3

Comment: An extension of ArgoUML (above).

Price: Free

Quick Database Diagrams

Home: https://www.quickdatabasediagrams.com/

Comment: Web-based, so (currently) your diagrams are public.

Price: Free.

Rose

Comment: Can do forward and reverse engineering

Price: Heaps

Schemester

Home: http://www.schemester.co.uk/

Cost: Free

Database: Oracle

References to: PL/SQL Developer (for a pl/sql IDE): http://www.allroundautomations.com/

References to: ClearSQL (for pl/sql code review): http://www.clearsql.com/

SQLFairy aka SQL::Translator

Home: http://sqlfairy.sourceforge.net/

Comment: Manipulate structure data definitions (mostly database schemas) in interesting ways.

Licence: GNU General Public License.

Price: Free.

SQL Maestro

Home: http://www.sqlmaestro.com/

Comment: Administration and management tools for MySQL, Oracle, MS SQL Server, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Firebird and MaxDB.

Price: Per product.

TCM

Home: http://wwwhome.cs.utwente.nl/~tcm/

Comment: There's TCM, which has editors for a bunch of UML and UML-like diagrams (including ERDs, which schema diagrams generally are). It's pretty old-school, but i find it useful. It's especially nice because they include the description of their file format with the documentation, and it's all text, so it's fairly easy to write a perl script to automatically create a schema diagram for you (johnnnnnn)

Comments: Schema is stored in a text file. Perl module crying out to be written

TOAD Data Modeler

Previous name: Case Studio 2

Home: http://www.casestudio.com/enu/default.aspx

OS: Windows.

Databases: 40+.

Comment: Integrates with TOAD, an admin tool for Oracle, DB2, SQL Server and MySQL.

Price: Expensive.

Visio

Comment: Probably part of Visio Studio Enterprise. Can do forward and reverse engineering

Comment: The Visio product that I suspect may be superior to ER, having seen an impressive demo, is nice because it comes with all the other stuff (VC++, VB, VJ++, Foxpro(?), etc.) for about the same price as ER (Tim Harsch)

OS: MS Windows

Price: $500 USD (approx)

VisioModeler

Home: http://www.orm.net/resources.html

Comment: Abandoned by MS

Comment: I'm not certain but I think this is the Visio component of Visual Studio Enterprise. I once saw a demo of this and it looks very nice: because Visio is the drawing/graphical component and it is backed by forward/reverse engineering components that can be used for several of the major RDBMS' (Tim Harsch)

OS: MS Windows

Price: Free

Visual Thought

Home: http://www.bombshellstudios.com/samples/co/vt.html

Comment: Can be infuriating to use

OS: MS Windows

Price: Shareware

WWW SQL Designer

Home: http://ondras.zarovi.cz/sql/

Comment: Requires PHP-enabled web server to install locally

Price: DonationWare

XCase

Home: http://www.xcase.com/

OS: Windows

Price: http://www.xcase.com/products.php?r=1024&t=products

XERD

Home: http://www.joshuahawcroft.com/products/xerd/

OS: MacOS X.

Price: $64.13 AUD (Australian Dollars).

Similar Lists

http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/12/06/018207

http://mindview.net/WebLog/log-0041

http://www.metaintegration.net/Products/MIMB/SupportedTools.html

Author

Ron Savage .

Home: https://savage.net.au/index.html

Versions of this Document

Version: 1.03 2017-06-04
Version: 1.02 2006-06-01: This version disguises my email address.
Version: 1.01 2004-11-28
Version: 1.00 2002-02-18: Original version.

Licence

        All Programs of mine are 'OSI Certified Open Source Software';         you can redistribute them and/or modify them under the terms of         The Perl License, a copy of which is available at:         L<http://dev.perl.org/licenses/>