Database Modeller
Several times I needed a tool to play with database models on Linux and I haven't found anything decent, so I've decided to write one myself. I've been using Visio's entity-relational diagram features a lot and I like it, so this is where I got ideas for the diagram look and editing UI design from. It's far from complete, but it already does most of the things I needed it to do.
Release 0.3 (2010-01-24)
Download
- Source Code Tarball (70K, .tar.gz)
- Windows Installer (4.9M, .exe)
Changes
- PDF export
- Support for printing
- Opening of files passed through the command line arguments (Bug #401595)
- The recently used files list now always uses absolute paths
- Implemented auto-scrolling in the diagram view (Bug #420324)
- The "Close" menu item will now only close the document, not the window (Bug #420322)
- Use the selected file format in the export dialog, instead of relying only on the extension (Bug #396056)
Development
You can get the development version of the source code using Git:
git clone https://bitbucket.org/lalinsky/dbmodel.git
You need to have Qt4 installed, then you can run qmake followed by make to build it.
Roadmap
As I mentioned, this is a personal tool and not a very high-priority project, but there are a few things I'd like to implement in near feature:
- Extend the model to be able to fully represent a physical database schema (at least for PostgreSQL).
- Use QtScript to allow users to export the schema into SQL scripts, ORM mapping classes, etc.
- Allow users to manually edit connections in the diagram. Doing this automatically is a very complex problem (even the simplest approximation I could think of), for which I don't have enough time.