Comparison of database administration tools

The following tables compare general and technical information for a number of available database administration tools. Please see individual product articles for further information. This article is neither all-inclusive nor necessarily up to date.

Systems listed on a light purple background are no longer in active development.

Features
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 * User Interface:
 * Browser based - executes on a computer server and is accessed via a network using a web browser
 * desktop - executes on a personal computer
 * Create/alter table:
 * Yes - can create table, alter its definition and data, and add new rows
 * Some - can only create/alter table definition, not data
 * Browse table:
 * Yes - can browse table definition and data
 * Some - can only browse table definition
 * Multi-server support:
 * Yes - can manage from the same window/session multiple servers
 * Some - can manage from a different window/session multiple servers
 * Monitoring server:
 * Yes - includes a headless server, that runs checks and reports failures

Features (continued)
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 * User manager:
 * Yes - user manager with support for database and schema permissions as well as for individual object (table, view, functions) permissions
 * Some - simple user manager with support for database and schema permissions
 * No - no user manager, or read-only user manager

Features - visual design and reverse engineering
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 * Visual schema/E-R design: the ability to draw entity-relationship diagrams for the database. If missing, the following two features will also be missing
 * Reverse engineering - the ability to produce an ER diagram from a database, complete with foreign key relationships
 * Yes - supports incremental reverse engineering, preserving user modifications to the diagram and importing only changes from the database
 * Some - can only reverse engineer the entire database at once and drops any user modifications to the diagram (can't "refresh" the diagram to match the database)
 * Forward engineering - the ability to update the database schema with changes made to its entities and relationships via the ER diagram visual designer
 * Yes - can update user-selected entities
 * Some - can only update the entire database at once