Data modeling tools for Informix

List of data modeling and database design tools.

Data modeling is the process of creating and analyzing data models for resources stored in a database. The Data Model is an abstract model that standardizes the data description, data semantic, and consistency constraints of data. Its main purpose is to represent the types of data within a system, the relationships between objects, and its attributes. The data model helps to understand what data is needed and how data should be organized. It is like a blueprint for an architect to better understand what is being created.

erwin Data Modeler

erwin Data Modeler (erwin DM) is a data modeling tool used to find, visualize, design, deploy, and standardize high-quality enterprise data assets. Discover and document any data from anywhere for consistency, clarity, and artifact reuse across large-scale data integration, master data management, metadata management, Big Data, business intelligence, and analytics initiatives.

Desktop/Cloud: Desktop
Commercial: Commercial
Free edition: No
ER Diagram: Yes
Runs on: (for desktop): Linux,Mac OS,Windows
Forward engineering: Yes
Reverse enginering: Yes
Synchronization: Yes

ER/Studio

ER/Studio provides robust logical and physical modeling and determines all data sources along with managing the transformation of data between the staging area and data warehouse. It helps to build out an enterprise data model and represent business concepts with full documentation of attributes, definitions, relationships, etc.

Desktop/Cloud: Desktop
Commercial: Commercial
Free edition: No
ER Diagram: Yes
Runs on: (for desktop): Windows
Forward engineering: Yes
Reverse enginering: Yes
Synchronization: -

GenMyModel

With GenMyModel’s standard data modeling notation, data architects not only keep
glossaries and data models under control, but they can design and reverse engineer data
models and link them to other IT and business models, such as UML, Archimate and BPMN.

Desktop/Cloud: Cloud
Commercial: Commercial
Free edition: Yes
ER Diagram: Yes
Runs on: (for desktop): Linux,Mac OS,Windows
Forward engineering: Yes
Reverse enginering: No
Synchronization: -

Visible Analyst

Visible Analyst is an integrated Strategic Planning, Data Modeling, Business Process Modeling (BPMN), UML Modeling, and Structured Analysis and Design Modeling developed by Visible. It enables you to model your concepts and ideas, your business processes, your entity-relationship models, and your UML use case, class, and objects.

Desktop/Cloud: Desktop
Commercial: Commercial
Free edition: Yes
ER Diagram: Yes
Runs on: (for desktop): Windows
Forward engineering: Yes
Reverse enginering: Yes
Synchronization: -

IBM InfoSphere Data Architect

IBM InfoSphere Data Architect is a data design solution that enables you to discover, model, relate, standardize and integrate diverse and distributed data assets throughout the enterprise. It enables information designers to create both logical and physical data model diagrams, which can be used to describe a variety of applications and systems.

Desktop/Cloud: Desktop
Commercial: Commercial
Free edition: No
ER Diagram: Yes
Runs on: (for desktop): Linux,Windows
Forward engineering: Yes
Reverse enginering: Yes
Synchronization: -

ModelSphere

ModelSphere is an exciting and unique modeling tool that combines many features, such as business process modeling, data modeling and UML modeling, and provides a flexible model management environment. It provides complete data modeling features covering conceptual, logical and physical modeling.

Desktop/Cloud: Desktop
Commercial: Free
Free edition: Yes
ER Diagram: Yes
Runs on: (for desktop): Linux,Windows
Forward engineering: Yes
Reverse enginering: Yes
Synchronization: -

PowerDesigner

PowerDesigner DataArchitect is the industry-leading data modeling tool. It offers a model-driven approach to empower and align business and IT. PowerDesigner enables enterprises to more easily visualize, analyze, and manipulate metadata for effective enterprise information architecture.

Desktop/Cloud: Desktop
Commercial: Commercial
Free edition: No
ER Diagram: Yes
Runs on: (for desktop): Linux,Mac OS,Windows
Forward engineering: Yes
Reverse enginering: Yes
Synchronization: -

WinA&D

WinA&D is a comprehensive tool for system analysis, requirements management, structured analysis and design, object-oriented modeling with UML and data modeling of information systems. With WinA&D, dynamic systems can be modeled, parameterized, simulated and charted. The tool provides requirements specification and traceability, design verification reports and text import/export features.

Desktop/Cloud: Desktop
Commercial: Commercial
Free edition: Yes
ER Diagram: Yes
Runs on: (for desktop): Mac OS,Windows
Forward engineering: Yes
Reverse enginering: Yes
Synchronization: -

Gleek.io

Gleek.io diagram maker is freemium text-to-diagram tool for developers and software architects. It is a cloud tool for model driven software development, and you can run in any browser. Gleek.io is designed to be used during software planning meetings and live collaboration, so it is vital that diagrams can be created quickly.

Desktop/Cloud: Cloud
Commercial: Commercial
Free edition: Yes
ER Diagram: Yes
Runs on: (for desktop): -
Forward engineering: No
Reverse enginering: No
Synchronization: No

The wider the scope of data works in an organization, the more advanced data modeling tool is needed. The functionality spectrum of these tools can be very broad. However, the core features of these tools include: