Alternatives to pgModeler
An open-source PostgreSQL modeling tool for designing, reverse-engineering, diffing and deploying database schemas. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
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pgModeler
An open-source PostgreSQL modeling tool for designing, reverse-engineering, diffing and deploying database schemas.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as pgModeler.
DbSchema
A visual database designer and client that turns SQL and NoSQL databases into ER diagrams.
DbSchema is a closed-source visual designer supporting more than 100 SQL and NoSQL databases, with HTML documentation and Git-versioned models, and paid advanced features.
ChartDB
An open-source tool for visualizing and editing database schema diagrams, hosted or self-hosted.
ChartDB is an AGPL-3.0 web tool, self-hostable, that diagrams an existing database from a single query and exports DDL, with less PostgreSQL-specific depth than pgModeler.
dbdiagram.io
A web tool for drawing database relationship diagrams by writing a simple text-based language.
dbdiagram.io is a free browser-only tool that draws schemas from a text language, not open source, with no reverse engineering, diff or deployment features.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
Atlas
A command-line tool that manages database schemas as code and plans migrations automatically.
pgAdmin
The standard open-source administration tool for PostgreSQL.
Flyway
A database migration tool that applies versioned schema changes across many database engines.
SchemaSpy
A command-line tool that generates browsable HTML documentation and ER diagrams from a database schema.
PostgreSQL
The open-source relational database with 35 years behind it, known for correctness, extensibility and a long feature list.
