When comparing Schemaball vs Socrates, the Slant community recommends Schemaball for most people. In the question“What are the best database design programs?” Schemaball is ranked 15th while Socrates is ranked 16th. The most important reason people chose Schemaball is:
Schemaball can read schemas from multiple sources such as SQL schema dumps, flat files or live databases.
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Pros
Pro Supports reading schemas from multiple sources
Schemaball can read schemas from multiple sources such as SQL schema dumps, flat files or live databases.
Pro Interesting twist on visual interface
Gives a quick way to grasp an overview on the past/present complexity of the database (or group of tables) undergoing inspection.
Pro Parses an uploaded sql file to generate information about tables, fields and primary keys
(current 750K Max filesize)
Cons
Con Visualizations may be hard to get used to
Since schemas are visualized by using stylized "schema balls" it may be hard getting used to them since they are so different from the other, more straightforward options.
Con Screenshots require a browser plugin
ones that support full-page screenshots (that go beyond the browser viewport when grabbing an image of the page), as this visualizer does not generate the images itself