Datamodelling under linux

[Kristian Rink]

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Am Wed, 30 Aug 2006 13:51:27 +0200
schrieb "Sylvain Girard" <girard.sylvain at gmail.com>:

> data modelling as in RDBMS modelling :) UML modelling tools usually
> aren't equipped for data modelling, since UML 1.0 doesn't define
> RDBMS modelling... 

Indeed. :) I don't know whether this is likely to change with UML 2.0,
but somehow I doubt it - basically, UML is built around the idea of
object-oriented design and thus drastically different from relational
design as used in RDBMS modelling. To point your way somewhere else:
There hardly are _any_ real usable (open-source) RDBMS design tools out
there right now, but there are wagonloads of O/R mapping frameworks to
persist your objects to some (relational) database while freeing you of
the need to manually craft table definitions... Just an idea. ;)

However, while finishing my diploma thesis, I excessively used
DBDesigner ( http://fabforce.net/dbdesigner4/ ) which is available for
both Windows and Linux, but I had to run the Windows version using wine
as the Linux version seems to be way harder to get started using a
recent distribution...



> Then I found something about Alzabo, but that seems to be some sort of
> plugin for god knows what.

IIRC, Alzabo basically _is_ an O/R mapper built in/for Perl. ;)

Cheers,
Kris


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