MySQL Data Access Components vs. Navicat Data Modeler vs. Tungsten Clustering vs. django-mysql Comparison Chart

Navicat Data Modeler is a powerful and cost-effective database design tool which helps you build high-quality conceptual, logical and physical data models. It allows you to visually design database structures, perform reverse/forward engineering processes, import models from ODBC data sources, generate complex SQL/DDL, print models to files, and much more. Simplify the task of creating complex entity relationship models and generate the script SQL with a simple click. Navicat Data Modeler supports various database systems, including MySQL, MariaDB, Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, and SQLite. Create, modify, and design your models using professional object designers, available for Tables and Views. Without the need to write complex SQL to create and edit objects, you’ll know exactly what you are working on. Also, Navicat Data Modeler supports three standard notations, Crow’s Foot, IDEF1x and UML.

Django-MySQL extends Django’s built-in MySQL and MariaDB support their specific features not available on other databases. A new cache backend that makes use of MySQL’s upsert statement and does compression. Named locks for easy locking of e.g. external resources. Extra checks added to Django’s check framework to ensure your Django and MySQL configurations are optimal. Django-MySQL comes with a number of extensions to QuerySet that can be installed in a number of ways - e.g. adding the QuerySetMixin to your existing QuerySet subclass.