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SchemaCrawlereralchemy
Free

Free to use, released under the EPL-2.0 licence.

 Free

Free and open source under the Apache-2.0 license.

Windows, macOS, Linux, Command line Command line
  • Works with nearly any JDBC database
  • Diff-friendly text output for schema comparisons
  • Builds diagrams from databases and SQLAlchemy models
  • Can generate output as images or PDFs
  • Requires Java SE 17 or newer
  • Command-line oriented rather than a graphical client
  • Requires Python and Graphviz or pygraphviz for image and PDF output
Downloadable app Downloadable app
Open source Open source
License: EPL-2.0 License: Apache-2.0
No account needed Not stated if an account is needed
Works offline Not stated if it works offline

Checked October 2, 2026

Checked October 8, 2026

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