The following tables compare general and technical information for a number of available database administrator tools. Please see individual product articles for further information. This article is neither all-inclusive nor necessarily up to date.
General
Database Engineering with Enterprise Architect 12 - Enterprise Architect includes a powerful new database engineering toolset. The new Database Builder greatly enhances Enterprise Architect's existing data modeling capabilities รข€" making it...
Features
Legend
- Create/alter table:
- Yes - can create table, alter its definition and data, and add new rows
- Some - can only create/alter table definition, not data
- Browse table:
- Yes - can browse table definition and data
- Some - can only browse table definition
- Multi-server support:
- Yes - can manage from the same window/session multiple servers
- Some - can manage from a different window/session multiple servers
- Monitoring server:
- Yes - includes a headless server, that runs checks and reports failures
Features (continued)
Legend:
- User manager:
- Yes - user manager with support for database and schema permissions as well as for individual object (table, view, functions) permissions
- Some - simple user manager with support for database and schema permissions
- No - no user manager, or read-only user manager
Features - visual design and reverse engineering
Legend:
- Visual schema/E-R design: the ability to draw entity-relationship diagrams for the database. If missing, the following two features will also be missing
- Reverse engineering - the ability to produce an ER diagram from a database, complete with foreign key relationships
- Yes - supports incremental reverse engineering, preserving user modifications to the diagram and importing only changes from the database
- Some - can only reverse engineer the entire database at once and drops any user modifications to the diagram (can't "refresh" the diagram to match the database)
- Forward engineering - the ability to update the database schema with changes made to its entities and relationships via the ER diagram visual designer
- Yes - can update user-selected entities
- Some - can only update the entire database at once
See also
- Comparison of data modeling tools
- Comparison of object database management systems
- Comparison of object-relational database management systems
- Comparison of relational database management systems
- List of relational database management systems
- SQL programming tool
External links
- Most popular database tools
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