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Eclipse ER Modelling(ERD) Plugin – ERMaster

January 30th, 2010 No comments

Last week i need to design a schema for a new project at work. And my client wants us to use all open source tools. Eclipse being our IDE i had spent some time finding good Eclipse plugin for ER Modelling.

After trying about 4 to 6 plugins and reading about there features, I found that ERMaster is best available plugin for the ER Modelling. Here are some of the nice features that ERMaster supports.

  • Supports for the main databases (Oracle, MySQL and PostGreSQL)
  • Ability to import existing database(Reverse Engineering)
  • Export to various formats (Java, Excel, PNG and HTML)
  • DDL generation
  • Physical and Logical View
  • Group Management and History Management

Installation steps can be found here

Sample ER