When comparing Socrates vs SchemaCrawler, the Slant community recommends SchemaCrawler for most people. In the question“What are the best database design programs?” SchemaCrawler is ranked 9th while Socrates is ranked 16th. The most important reason people chose SchemaCrawler is:
The text-based output serves for database documentation, and is designed to be diff-ed against other database schemas.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Parses an uploaded sql file to generate information about tables, fields and primary keys
(current 750K Max filesize)
Pro Many options for output formats in addition to graphical
The text-based output serves for database documentation, and is designed to be diff-ed against other database schemas.
Pro Extensive and detailed documentation online
Including visuals of the results of command-line option usage.
Pro Free
Cons
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
Con Need Java
Con Does not work with schema dumpfiles
SchemaCrawler has no methods for dealing with when you only have a schema generated via something like (mysqldump --no-data [options] >schema-only_dump.sql) , and do not currently have access to a live database to connect with.