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DBeaver
Popular open-source database IDE (Apache-2.0) that generates ER diagrams from connected databases. A viewer more than a modeler.
Facts at a glance
- vendor
- DBeaver
- category
- Database IDEs with ERDs
- deploy
- Windows, macOS, Linux
- license
- Open source (Apache-2.0 (Community edition))
- free option
- Free edition
- model levels
- physical
- methods
- relational
- reverse engineering
- yes
- DDL / script out
- not verified
- model compare / sync
- not verified
- Git / version control
- not verified
- diagram-as-code
- no
- databases
- not verifiedConnects through drivers to a long list of databases, including Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, SQL Server and Oracle (per its documentation's driver list).
What does DBeaver cost?
Community edition is free; commercial PRO editions exist. Prices not captured.
Who is it for?
editorial judgment, based on the facts above
Good fit
Seeing an existing database's relationships quickly, with a tool many developers already have.
Watch for
Not a design-first modeler: no conceptual or logical layer.
Alternatives to DBeaver
Picked by shared category, databases, deployment and free option in our data, not by preference.
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- id
- mysql-workbench
- price
- free
- deploy
- not verified
- license
- proprietary
MySQL's official GUI. The end-of-life 8.0 line had EER modeling with forward and reverse engineering; the new Workbench has not shipped modeling yet.
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- id
- oracle-sql-developer-data-modeler
- price
- free
- deploy
- Windows, macOS, Linux
- license
- proprietary
Free stand-alone modeler from Oracle for logical, relational, physical and multidimensional models, with forward and reverse engineering.
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- id
- pgmodeler
- price
- free tier · paid price not captured
- deploy
- Windows, macOS, Linux
- license
- GPL-3.0 (Community edition)
PostgreSQL-only modeler. The open-source Community edition (GPL-3.0) covers core modeling; the paid Plus edition adds import, diff, SQL execution and Git versioning.
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- id
- dbschema
- price
- free tier · paid price not captured
- deploy
- Windows, macOS
- license
- proprietary
Desktop design tool that connects to relational and NoSQL databases, keeps the model in a file you can commit to Git, and compares and syncs schemas.
Sources
found an error? email info@datamodelingtools.com with a link to the vendor page