Azimutt Reviews and details

Questions & Answers

1. How would you describe your primary audience?

   Azimutt is mainly targeted at developers working with databases, allowing them to easily explore and understand them by either importing the schema or connecting to a live instance.

   As it's quite easy to use, we have seen other profile such as product owners, engineering managers and even CFOs using it to better understand the product they build or extract meaningful data on their own ^^

2. What's the story behind Azimutt?

   Early 2021 I joined Doctolib, a health startup very successful in France, and discovered their big Ruby on Rails monolith backed by a large PostgreSQL database with more than 700 business tables (more then 1300 in total). As an architect I worked with several teams and needed to understand their models but neither Ruby, Rails or the structure.sql were very helpful for such a big app. So I looked for a tool but they all failed with such a large database, so after a few month and tens of tools tested, I decided to build my own: Azimutt. Now it has evolved a lot and we are still very active to enable new usages every months. I believe it's a solid product and quite unique ❤️

3. Which are the primary technologies used for building your product?

   From development languages, Azimutt is built with Elm/TypeScript for the frontend, Elixir/Phoenix for the backend and PostgreSQL/S3 as storage.

4. What makes Azimutt unique?

   It's the only ERD able to handle databases with many tables (>1000) nicely thanks to unique features:

   • layouts to see only the relevant tables (not all are useful for everyone)
   • smart search everywhere

   It's also very unique in the sense it's made to explore and understand real world databases, from development to production with larges features:

   • database design with an intuitive DSL
   • database documentation, on any table, column or layout (markdown text and tags)
   • database analysis to make sure best practices are in place
   • innovative data exploration

   Thousands of developers already love it, give it a try, we have several samples you can try right away!

5. Why should a person choose Azimutt over its competitors?

   Azimutt is the all-in-one app to explore real world databases. If you look for very specialized features some competitors may be more suited, but if you want a versatile app to explore and understand your database, we believe no competitor come close to us.

   • if you have more than 50 tables, there is no match, you should be amazed by Azimutt features built for large databases
   • if you want to mix data exploration and schema exploration, it's also very unique
   • if you care about open source, visit our GitHub

6. Who are some of the biggest customers of Azimutt?

   Azimutt is used at Doctolib (3000 people company) and some other french scale ups I can't disclose yet.

Social recommendations and mentions

• SQLite Schema Diagram Generator

  I just want to get a basic overview quickly. An old colleague of mine created an interactive web app that does this. We use it internally and I find it super useful. Supports SQLite, among others: https://azimutt.app/. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 month ago

• One Month Post Product Hunt Launch: An Honest Review of Azimutt.app launch

  Hello Dev.to community, I'm Sam, a proud part of a dedicated trio that built Azimutt.app. - Source: dev.to / 12 months ago

• pgAdmin Generate ERD stuck on load

  A couple of options here: - From a database. Generate ERD by connecting to your database directly. I've used this as a quick way to generate a diagram from my local or even QA DB (not prod DB for obvious security reasons). - From a schema dump file. Take a pg dump and then generate an ERD from the dump file. There are ERD tools like dbdaddy.dev and azimutt.app that support these options. Source: over 1 year ago