Comparison of database tools

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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.

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General

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Features

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• 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

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Features (continued)

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• 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

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Features - visual design and reverse engineering

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• 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

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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

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External Links

• Most popular database tools

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Notes

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