Datamodelling under linux

[John Dangler]

On Wed, 2006-08-30 at 14:16 +0200, Sylvain Girard wrote:
> I don't need an O/R mapper right now, I only need to document the
> model. I guess I have try try and get it done with Umbrello then...
Basically, I think what we're all looking for is ErWin for Linux under
GPL... I've searched through alot of packages.  Never really quite found
one that would do the trick.  There's one called DataArchitect (not
free) from MyKompany.com that isn't bad.  The price isn't bad either
($89.00 USD).  Great support, and I had it installed and configured in
Ubuntu 5.10 in about 15 minutes.  I got a fresh copy and put it in
Dapper 6.06 in about half that time.

> 
> On 8/30/06, Kristian Rink <kristian at zimmer428.net> wrote:
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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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> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Best regards,
> Sylvain Girard
> 
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