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If you are looking to explore and understand your database (relational or document), Azimutt is the tool you need. It's the first entity relationship diagram built to handle big database schema (up to 1000 tables) with dedicated features: search, find path and even schema analysis to keep it consistent.
Emisar is the last MCP server youโll need to install: a Zero-Trust gateway connecting Claude, Cursor, ChatGPT, and any AI agent to your infrastructure. One server handles production access, debugging, alerts, and internal operations, with new capabilities added as packs. Agents can inspect real production state, debug what they shipped, and help resolve incidents. Safe reads run automatically; policy allows, blocks, or routes risky actions for approval. No SSH keys, VPNs, remote shells, or standing shell access โ and every call is recorded.
Azimutt
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Azimutt's answer
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 ^^
Emisar.dev's answer:
emisar is for SRE, DevOps, platform engineering, infrastructure, and security teams that want AI agents to inspect and operate production systems. It is especially relevant to teams managing multiple Linux hosts, clusters, databases, cloud services, or regulated environments where unrestricted shell access and incomplete audit records are unacceptable.
Azimutt's answer
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 โค๏ธ
Emisar.dev's answer:
Founder Andrii Dryga spent a decade working as a CTO, full-stack engineer, SRE, and DevOps engineer. He experienced the cost of running the wrong command on the wrong cluster, while also seeing AI solve operational problems in seconds. emisar grew from the need to preserve both truths: AI agents are useful, and production access must remain bounded. Its answer is to give agents a reviewed catalog of operations instead of a blank terminal.
Azimutt's answer
From development languages, Azimutt is built with Elm/TypeScript for the frontend, Elixir/Phoenix for the backend and PostgreSQL/S3 as storage.
Emisar.dev's answer:
The hosted control plane and operator interface use Elixir, Phoenix, LiveView, PostgreSQL, and Tailwind CSS. The host runner and MCP bridge are written in Go. Action packs use YAML and JSON Schema, while production infrastructure is managed with Terraform on Google Cloud. The system communicates through MCP, OAuth 2.1, TLS, and WebSockets.
Azimutt's answer
It's the only ERD able to handle databases with many tables (>1000) nicely thanks to unique features:
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:
Thousands of developers already love it, give it a try, we have several samples you can try right away!
Emisar.dev's answer:
emisar lets AI agents work on real infrastructure without giving them a shell. Agents choose from a finite catalog of typed, versioned actions. Policy decides what runs, what requires approval, and what is denied, while an outbound-only runner verifies the action again on the host. New capabilities arrive as packs behind the same MCP integration, and every request is recorded in both a searchable audit trail and a tamper-evident host journal. [
Azimutt's answer
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.
Emisar.dev's answer:
Choose emisar when you want an agent to keep investigating and handling routine operations without handing it SSH credentials or supervising every call. Compared with raw shell access, copy-paste workflows, or one-off MCP servers, emisar provides reviewed action contracts, host-level enforcement, risk-based policy, scoped access, approvals, pack integrity checks, and a durable audit trail. It is built specifically for governed infrastructure access rather than generic automation.
Azimutt's answer
Azimutt is used at Doctolib (3000 people company) and some other french scale ups I can't disclose yet.
Emisar.dev's answer:
Based on our record, Azimutt seems to be more popular. It has been mentiond 4 times since March 2021. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.
Not mine but someone showed me this : https://azimutt.app/. - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago
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 / over 2 years ago
Hello Dev.to community, I'm Sam, a proud part of a dedicated trio that built Azimutt.app. - Source: dev.to / about 3 years ago
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 3 years ago
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