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theKompany.com's Data Architect Reviewed

Posted by timothy on from the weeklong-tryst dept.

JigSaw writes "Clinton De Young reviews for OSNews the premier theKompany product, Data Architect. The product allows you to design ODBC and other databases under Linux, Windows or Mac OS X, utilizing the Qt toolkit."

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  1. Why would I pay for this when DBDesigner4 is free? by NickV · · Score: 4, Informative

    Not only does DBDesigner4 seem to do everything Data Architect does (cross-platform, SQL generation, importing/exporting from databases), but it's also free.

    And it's prettier too.

  2. About the name ... by vorwerk · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Sybase has produced a suite of tools called PowerDesigner DataArchitect for quite a long time. (I remember using an older version when I worked at Sybase many years ago.)

    For example,
    sybase eshop

    I was just thinking that trademark issues may arise from the products being so similarly named (and have somewhat similar goals).

    (My guess is also that Sybase's product has been around for a longer period of time.)

  3. It would seem by hding · · Score: 2, Informative

    from its webpage that DBDesigner4 only supports MySQL, whereas this offers support for more databases. That could be an explanation, as not everyone uses MySQL.