Database diagram / Reverse Engineering tools

List of database ER diagram (ERD) / schema visualization / reverse engineering tools .

DB-Main (discontinued)

DB-Main is an easy-to-use data modelling and data architecture platform. The software helps developers and analysts in most of their daily tasks and covers all data engineering processes by simplifying activities, such as design processes, transformations, reverse engineering, and management.

Commercial: Commercial
Free edition: No
Export: -

ModelRight

ModelRight is a database design and data modeling tool. It is used by data modelers, database developers and database architects to create, visualize and document their databases as an Entity Relationship Diagram (ERD).

Commercial: Commercial
Free edition: No
Export: Image,MS Excel,Printer

pgDesigner

pgDesigner is an open source data model designer for PostgreSQL. It has an easy to use interface and comprises of different handy features to support database development, management, and reverse engineering in a graphical way.

Commercial: Free
Free edition: Yes
Export: CSV,HTML,MS Excel,PDF,Plain text

Astah

Astah's modeling tools allow you to quickly and effortlessly build diagrams that create a clear understanding among teams. By installing the reverse engineering plug-in, you can import an existing database into a visual ER diagram.

Commercial: Commercial
Free edition: Yes
Export: CSV,HTML,Image,MS Excel,RTF

Software Ideas Modeler

Software Ideas Modeler is a lightweight and powerful CASE tool. It helps to create different diagrams, such as UML diagrams and ERDs. ERDs can be exported to SQL to create the database. It also provides database reverse engineering support. Select the database tables or source code files and it will turn the data to the more readable form – diagrams.

Commercial: Commercial
Free edition: No
Export: Image,PDF,SVG

SQL Power Architect

SQL Power Architect data modeling tool has many unique features geared specifically for the data warehouse architect. It allows users to reverse-engineer existing databases, perform data profiling on source databases and auto-generate ETL metadata.

Commercial: Commercial
Free edition: Yes
Export: PDF

ERD Concepts

ERD Concepts is an ERD tool combining professional diagramming with a light and pleasant user-interface. With ERD Concepts you can connect to almost any available database on the market today using ODBC and ADO connections. Using the advanced reverse engineering software you can create a new ERD diagram from an existing database.

Commercial: Free
Free edition: Yes
Export: HTML,Printer

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.

Commercial: Free
Free edition: Yes
Export: CSV,Image,Printer

WWW SQL Designer

WWW SQL Designer allows you to draw and create database schemas (ER diagrams) directly in the browser, without the need for any external programs. It also has the ability to import existing database design.

Commercial: Free
Free edition: Yes
Export: SQL script

MagicDraw

MagicDraw is the award-winning business process, architecture, software and system modeling tool with teamwork support. It includes entity-relationship diagram, SQL database modeling/diagramming and DDL script generation/reverse features.

Commercial: Commercial
Free edition: No
Export: CSV,HTML,MS Excel,PDF

IBM InfoSphere Data Architect

IBM® InfoSphere® Data Architect is a collaborative enterprise data modeling and design solution. It enables to create a physical data model using reverse engineering feature.

Commercial: Commercial
Free edition: No
Export: -

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 reverse engineering, change management, schema verification, and many more.

Commercial: Commercial
Free edition: Yes
Export: Image,SQL script

Innovator for Information Architects

Innovator for Information Architects provides a data modeling technique based on the entity relationship model (ERM). You can use the import wizard to add the right tables from your database into your Innovator model in a few easy steps.

Commercial: Commercial
Free edition: Yes
Export: SQL script

Modelio

Modelio SQL Designer Module provides strong support for database modeling, from logical UML class models to relational databases. It provides reverse engineering from SQL code to SQL table diagrams.

Commercial: Commercial
Free edition: Yes
Export: -

SQL Manager

SQL Manager in a simple and direct way provides reverse engineering operation by building a relationship diagram on the basis of the current database's structure. The objects are arranged automatically within the diagram model.

Commercial: Commercial
Free edition: Yes
Export: HTML,Image,MS Excel,PDF,RTF