Comparison of database tools

The following tables compare general and technical information for a number of available :Database administration tools, database administrator 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.

General

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

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

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

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

Notes

References

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