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Database design tools for IBM DB2
List of tools that allow for the design of a database.
Database design is a set of activities aimed at improving the development, implementation, and maintenance of an enterprise data management system. Its main goal is to reflect the outline of the database system into real models: physical and logical. Database designers determine what data is to be stored inside the database, and how objects are to be related to each other.
SQuirreL SQL
SQuirreL SQL Client is a graphical Java program that will allow you to view the structure of a JDBC compliant database, browse the data in tables, issue SQL commands, etc.
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Enterprise Architect
Enterprise Architect is a fully featured database modeling platform that enables the user to work with their Physical Data models at all stages, from design right through to the implementation of the live database, for a wide range of database management systems such as Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL and MySQL.
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MagicDraw
MagicDraw is the award-winning business process, architecture, software and system modeling tool with teamwork support. With Cameo Data Modeler plugin, data-related modeling can be peroformed on MagicDraw. It includes entity-relationship diagram, SQL database modeling/diagramming and DDL script generation/reverse features.
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IBM InfoSphere Data Architect
Data Architect allows you to create models for DB2, Informix, Oracle, Sybase, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, and Teradata source systems. Elements from logical and physical data models can be visually represented in diagrams using Information Engineering (IE) notation.
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dbConstructor
dbConstructor is a database design tool that speeds up and eases the database creation and maintenance process by means of an extremely user-friendly interface. It also lets you do change management and schema verification.
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SQL Manager
SQL Manager provides separate tools for different databases which include MySQL, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, InterBase/Firebird, Oracle and DB2. It provides high-performance tools for database administration and development. It has an easy-to-use graphical interface and allows you to create/edit database objects in a simple and direct way.
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Apricot DB
Includes all standard facilities to design the database structures
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Gleek.io
Gleek.io diagram maker is freemium text-to-diagram tool for developers and software architects. It enables the visual design of database online, in the cloud and from any browser. Create informal, UML, or entity-relationship diagrams - using just your keyboard.
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GenMyModel
GenMyModel supports graphical database design based on standard E/R diagramming and documentation as well as DDL generation. with GenMyModel, 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.
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Qlik Data Catalyst
Qlik Data Catalyst is a metadata driven data catalog that has technical and business descriptions, data profiles, data lineage, and data tags that make data search and delivery simple. It builds a secure, enterprise-scale catalog of all the data your organization has available for analytics, no matter where it is.
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The database design process can be very complicated. The more complex the system, the more sophisticated the tool is needed. Their functionality can vary greatly, however, core features include:
• creating and editing database objects,
• database architecture modeling,
• visualization of a database schema,
• tracking relationships between entities,
• grouping logically related objects into clusters,
• diagrams overview.
Database designer tools enable building graphical models and generating DDL scripts on their basis. The script describes data and relations between entities in the designed database. Furthermore, the tools enable reverse engineering (visualization of the model from the SQL script).
Key factors of creating a reliable and well-organized database are:
• a properly designed data structure,
• establishing what data should be stored in particular objects,
• how objects should be related to each other.
All of them can be improved by using the relevant Database design tool. Additionally, some of them allow the visual representation of data using ERD, makes it easier to visualize even more complex schemas.
Without proper software, development is based on raw code. This increases the risk of errors at the initial stage. The tools allow users to edit the visual layout using simple drag-and-drop functions. With a user-friendly interface, browsing the structure is possible even for non-IT people.
We have created a list of tools that support the process of creating database structure and its content. Our list includes free database design tools as well as advanced, more professional data management tools.