Schemaball vs Rise
When comparing Schemaball vs Rise, the Slant community recommends Schemaball for most people. In the question“What are the best relational database design and modelling tools?” Schemaball is ranked 13th while Rise is ranked 21st. 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 Import database
Import from SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, DB2.
Pro Code generators
Code generators for C#, PHP, SOAP web services.
Pro Multi database
Support for popular databases like PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server.
Pro Visual Studio extension
A Visual Studio extension is available (14 days trial version).
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.