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Comparison of database administration tools

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The following tables compare general and technical information for a number of available database administration tools. Please see individual product articles for further information. This article is neither all-inclusive nor necessarily up to date.

Systems listed on a light purple background are no longer in active development.

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Features

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  • User Interface:
  • 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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  • 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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Notes

  1. Only for Data Import/Export features.
  2. Only for SQL Server and MySQL/MariaDB.
  3. Only incremental, by manually going through each table and clicking "Add to graph".
  4. Generated SQL must be executed outside Toad Data Modeler.

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