DrawSQL VS Azimutt

DrawSQL

Easy database diagrams. Create, visualize and collaborate on your database entity relationship diagrams.

Azimutt

Next-Gen ERD to Design, Explore and Document real world databases (big and messy ones ^^)

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2022-10-03

DrawSQL is a simple, beautiful database diagram editor for developers to 🚧 create, 💬 collaborate and 👀 visualize their entity relationship diagrams.

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2023-08-14

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.

DrawSQL

Website: drawsql.app
Pricing URL: Official DrawSQL Pricing
$ Details: freemium $15.0 / Monthly
Platforms: Browser
Release Date: 2018 November
Categories: #SQL Diagrams #Database Diagrams #Database Tools #Schema Diagrams

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Azimutt

Website: azimutt.app
Pricing URL: Official Azimutt Pricing
$ Details: freemium $13.0 / Monthly (Pro)
Platforms: Web Browser
Release Date: 2021 November
Categories: #Database Tools #SQL Diagrams #Database Diagrams #Relational Databases #Diagrams

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DrawSQL features and specs

Easy to Set-up and use: Yes
Clean UI: Yes
Free Trial: Yes

Azimutt features and specs

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Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to DrawSQL and Azimutt)

DrawSQL

Azimutt

Developer Tools

100 100%

Developer Tools

0% 0

Database Tools

61 61%

Database Tools

39% 39

SQL Diagrams

77 77%

SQL Diagrams

23% 23

Databases

75 75%

Databases

25% 25

Questions and Answers

As answered by people managing DrawSQL and Azimutt.

How would you describe your primary audience?

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 ^^

What's the story behind your product?

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 ❤️

Which are the primary technologies used for building your product?

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.

What makes your product unique?

Azimutt's answer:

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!

Why should a person choose your product over its competitors?

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.

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

Who are some of the biggest customers of your product?

Azimutt's answer:

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

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Social recommendations and mentions

Based on our record, DrawSQL should be more popular than Azimutt. It has been mentiond 9 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.

DrawSQL mentions (9)

🖌️ 5+1 Online Tools for Sketches, Wireframes, Drawings, and Diagrams
DrawSQL makes it easy for teams to collaborate on creating and maintaining schema diagrams. With a single source of truth, there's no need for manually syncing diagram files between different developers and offline tools anymore. Source: 10 months ago
Newbie: Trying to use Supabase Auth fully with its database.
To be honest, since you are just getting started, I think you should reconsider simplifying this app to begin with. Built something easier and get some more experience before jumping in the ocean. Maybe start by focusing only on the parent company and sub-companies. However, I strongly recommend you to try and make a diagram of your database with relations and columns as it can you a lot of time. I personally use... Source: 11 months ago
Sites that list SQL schemas/database diagrams?
After googling some, I found DrawSQL, which is a start. But I don't like its interface, and the inability to download the schemas in any form (at least not from what I can see). Source: over 1 year ago
Create SQL diagrams easily
Hey! Me with my team use this tool - https://drawsql.app/ We find it very useful. Suppose it may be helpful for someone else 🐱‍🚀. Source: about 2 years ago
I want to build a user interface where you could have two rows and you create relation between them by draging a an arrow from one row of table to the second row of table. How can i do that and what type of libraries would I use for that?
I was try to learn mysql for a few days and I came across DrawSQL. I really like the smooth ui and how its beautifuly visualize foreign keys. I tried to think how would I implement something like this but it wasn't much help. I also try to find it on internet and but no help. Source: over 2 years ago

Azimutt mentions (3)

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