ERDPlus vs. Oracle SQL Developer Data Modeler vs. SSAS vs. dbForge Schema Compare for PostgreSQL Comparison Chart

A database modeling tool for creating entity relationship diagrams, relational schemas, star schemas, and SQL DDL statements. ERDPlus is a web-based database modeling tool that lets you quickly and easily create Entity Relationship Diagrams (ERDs). Works with most contemporary RDBMS tools including Oracle, MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Teradata, IBM DB2, Microsoft Access, and others. The notation supports drawing regular and weak entities, various types of attributes (regular, unique, multi-valued, derived, composite, and optional), and all possible cardinality constraints of relationships (mandatory-many, optional-many, mandatory-one, and optional-one). The tool supports the quick creation of foreign keys and referential integrity lines by simple click-point-connect actions. This simplifies and quickens the process of creating relational schemas. The notation distinguishes fact tables from dimension tables by using a thicker frame around fact tables.

Installed as an on-premises server instance, SQL Server Analysis Services supports tabular models at all compatibility levels (depending on version), multidimensional models, data mining, and Power Pivot for SharePoint. A typical implementation workflow includes installing a SQL Server Analysis Services instance, creating a tabular or multidimensional data model, deploying the model as a database to a server instance, processing the database to load it with data, and then assigning permissions to allow data access. When ready to go, the data model can be accessed by any client application supporting Analysis Services as a data source. Models are populated with data from external data systems, usually data warehouses hosted on a SQL Server or Oracle relational database engine (Tabular models support additional data source types).