Many thanks to Radek Maciaszek who put together this roundup of data modelling tools:
dbdesigner: http://www.fabforce.net/dbdesigner4
+ cross platform
+ reverse engineering
+ support postgresql by odbc
(odbc: http://gborg.postgresql.org/project/psqlodbc/projdisplay.php)
zeos database designer: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=35994
+ should be cross platform
– doesn’t work on my system (crashes on startup)
Maybe it will work on yours?
azzuri: http://www.azzurri.jp/en/index.jsp
± commercial but with freeware version
± needs eclipse
+ reverse enginering
+ work with mysql and pgsql and with any jdbc sql’92 compatible db
dbmodeller: http://gborg.postgresql.org/project/dbmodeller/projdisplay.php
+ written in java (platform independent)
+ full source code available
+ reverse/forward engineering
+ mysql/postgresql/mssql/oracle
– ugly
dbvisualiser: http://www.dbvis.com/products/dbvis/info.html
+ java (platform independent)
± commercial but with freeware version
+ reverse engineering
– problems with references
DatabaseOrganizer: http://db-org.sourceforge.net/
– needs tomcat
+ should work with mysql and postgresql
Abeille Personal Edition http://www.jetaware.com/Home.jsp
± commercial but with freeware version
April 6th, 2004 at 1:25 am
Elegant solution to an old problem:
http://mkweb.bcgsc.ca/schemaball
April 6th, 2004 at 3:25 am
Look also at: http://lmuphp.sourceforge.net/ This is for UML. After few improvements should be really great tool
April 16th, 2004 at 5:17 am
http://dbdesign.sourceforge.net/
this project seems to be promising. simple swiss army modeler with and XML / XSL approach for exporting db scripts out of models
May 12th, 2004 at 5:11 am
Having a tool is good. Having a method is even better 😉
\"Database Modelling in UML\". This article offers a step by step approach to transform a UML
object-oriented class model in a purely relational database.
http://www.methodsandtools.com/archive/archive.php?id=9