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What our users say

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“I absolutely love dbschema. Been using it for a few years now and haven't found anything that I like more…”
Reddit user · r/PostgreSQL · Jul 2022 Read the thread →
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From the database ecosystem

Database vendors and their developer advocates point their own users to DbSchema.

Data cloud

Snowflake

“Getting DBSchema to work with Snowflake, in both reverse- and forward engineering mode, and schema synchronization.”
On X, Apr 2020 →
NoSQL

ScyllaDB

“With DBSchema, teams can centralize efforts to design database schemas and run queries across all major NoSQL and SQL databases.”
On X, Aug 2024 →
YugabyteDB

Franck Pachot

“If there's not yet a connection type for YugabyteDB, just pick the PostgreSQL one. Example: you want to reverse engineer a schema, just use DbSchema.”
On X, Aug 2021 →

In their own words

Answers people gave when someone asked which tool to use.

DbSchema has a really nice visual query builder — you can drag tables around, build joins, add subqueries, and see relationships right on the…
Reddit user r/SQL · Oct 2025 ↗
I love DbSchema! It's very easy to use, supports a lot of databases, and even has some automation capabilities with Groovy.
Reddit user r/SQLServer · Mar 2025 ↗
After looking at a number of tools we selected dbschema, it's not perfect but it is very functional and pretty cheap compared to other products.
Reddit user r/snowflake · Dec 2023 ↗
Happy user of DbSchema […] for the diagramming part.
callmeal Hacker News · Mar 2022 ↗
We use DBSchema to visualize the database schema and to build queries using the visual query builder. DBSchema quickly reverse engineers the schema into a model.
Stack Overflow answer Stack Overflow · Dec 2021 ↗
DBSchema paid - Out of all the ones I tried this worked the best for me.
Reddit user r/Backend · Dec 2025 ↗
It is attractive, intuitive, and includes the features that are most important to me without adding a lot of complication.
Sr. Data Engineer SourceForge review · Apr 2021 ↗
I'd never done any Groovy before using DbSchema, but the docs were easy to pick up.
Reddit user r/SQLServer · Mar 2025 ↗
Productivity tools I use everyday as a developer: […] DBSchema to view database entries.
Khushboo Verma X · Aug 2023 ↗
DBSchema is the answer for what you are looking for. And once you do the free version try the pro version also as it's very cheap for a…
Reddit user r/dataengineering · Apr 2026 ↗
If you want something extremely simple and visual, DbSchema is probably the closest match.
Reddit user r/DatabaseHelp · Apr 2025 ↗
DBSchema. can be used to quickly draw and design tables and instantly commit it to a database of your choice.
Reddit user r/dotnet · Feb 2024 ↗
Give dbschema a look, used myself for last several years.
Reddit user r/SQL · May 2023 ↗
This tool is complete visual, which makes your work seamless.
redshiftUser AlternativeTo · May 2020 ↗
I use DbSchema as well, and it is a great tool!
Reddit user r/SQLServer · Oct 2024 ↗
dbSchema is quite nice and the price tag isn't too high I think.
Reddit user r/Database · Jul 2020 ↗
I use DBSchema for ER diagrams, works well.
franch Hacker News · Jul 2015 ↗

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