drawDB comparisons
drawDB is compared head-to-head with DbSchema, SqlDBM and Hackolade Studio and more: 7 head-to-heads in Database Design Tools, each with the specs and prices we checked.
drawDB head-to-head
- drawDB vs DbSchema
- drawDB vs SqlDBM
- drawDB vs Hackolade Studio
- drawDB vs ERBuilder Data Modeler
- drawDB vs DB Designer
- drawDB vs WorksCove ERD
- drawDB vs dbdiagram.io
drawDB vs each of them
| # | Tool | Free plan | Paid from | Reverse engineering | Forward engineering | SQL export | Supported databases | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | drawDB | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, MariaDB, SQL Server, Oracle, generic dialect | 9.0 | |
| 1 | DbSchema | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Access, Amazon Athena, Amazon Timestream, Apache Drill, Apache Druid, Apache Ignite, Apache Pinot, Apache Solr, Aurora MySQL, Aurora PostgreSQL, Azure Synapse, Azure SQL, Cache, Cassandra, ClickHouse, Cockroach, Couchbase, CrateDB, CSV Files, CTreeAce, CUBRID, DaffodilDb, Databricks, Dataverse, Db2, DBF/FoxPro/xBase, Derby, DocumentDB, Dremio, DuckDB, DynamoDB, Elasticsearch, EnterpriseDB, Exasol, Fabric Lakehouse, FileMaker, Firebird, Firebolt, FrontBase, Google AlloyDB, Google BigQuery, Google Cloud Spanner, Greenplum, H2, HBase, Hive, Hologres, HSQL, Impala, InfluxDB, Informix, Ingres, Interbase, JDataStore, Kafka, MariaDB, MarkLogic, MemSQL, Mimer, MonetDB, MongoDB, MySQL, Neo4j, Neon, NuoDB, Oracle, OrientDB, Pervasive, PlanetScale, PointBase, PostgreSQL, QuestDB, Redis, Redshift, Salesforce, SAP Adaptive Server, SAP HANA, SAP MaxDB, ScyllaDB, SingleStore, SnappyData, Snowflake, SQL Anywhere, SQLBase, SQLite, SQL Server, Starburst, Supabase, TarantoolDB, Teradata, ThoughtSpot, Tibero, TiDB, TimescaleDB, Transbase, Trino, Vertica, VoltDB, Xata, Yellowbrick, YugabyteDB | 9.4 | |
| 2 | SqlDBM | Yes | Yes | Yes | Snowflake, Azure Synapse, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, AlloyDB, Databricks, BigQuery, Amazon Redshift, Oracle, MySQL, Teradata | 9.2 | ||
| 3 | Hackolade Studio | Yes | €1,750/seat/yr | Yes | Yes | Yes | Google BigQuery, Cassandra, Couchbase, Cosmos DB, Databricks, DocumentDB, DynamoDB, Elasticsearch, HBase, Hive, MariaDB, MarkLogic, MongoDB, MySQL, Neo4j, Oracle, PostgreSQL, Redshift, ScyllaDB, Snowflake, SQL Server, Synapse Analytics, Teradata, TinkerPop, YugabyteDB | 9.1 |
| 5 | ERBuilder Data Modeler | Yes | $139/user/yr | Yes | Yes | Yes | Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Firebird, Microsoft Azure SQL Database, Azure Synapse Dedicated SQL Pool, Amazon Redshift, Amazon RDS | 8.9 |
| 6 | DB Designer | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | MySQL, MS SQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQLite | 8.8 | |
| 7 | WorksCove ERD | Yes | $10/mo | Yes | Yes | Yes | MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQL Server | 8.7 |
| 8 | dbdiagram.io | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | PostgreSQL, MySQL, MSSQL (SQL Server), Oracle, Snowflake, BigQuery | 8.6 |
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