Dataedo

Pros

We mostly use the ability to publish the software to an internal website so that the entire team can read and review the data models (>10) we use in our applications. Having a searchable website with the documentation is much more useful than 5000+ pages of PDF. Allowing the use of some markup text in the descriptions does present a nice website with minimal effort.

Cons

Generation of the website with over 8,000 objects takes a few hours. We typically only publish changes 1-2/week.

Pros

Dataedo was the choice for me after evaluating a number of tools on the market, looking primarily for a macOS solution. I still went forward with Dataedo, even though it was only Windows (it uses a wine implementation for macOS support).

It does a great job of database connectivity and reverse-engineering the databases. It produces nice models and even nicer documentation. It has command-line options that allow me to support most of my workflow automatically. And, it stores its data in an MSSQL database that allows me to make model updates in bulk.

I love the ability to really test-drive the software with zero-commitment. My primary use case is database/model documentation and it excels at this.

Cons

* No customizable Excel templates
* No real support for macOS - only Windows
* E/R Diagram auto-layout is not helpful with more than a handful of tables
* Some things require tedious entry/input
* I wish it had better support for Module Management
* Being able to version releases and interaction with git/github would be helpful

Pros

Business Glossary ,Business Domain and Data domain.

Cons

It will be better if there can be more automation in place of manual task.

Pros

When we purchased Dataedo few years back, features were more limited in comparison to what they are now. But there were a few gems that fit our needs really well. e.g. documenting relations that aren't enforced in the DB.

Dataedo was easy to implement and intuitive to use. The support from the Dataedo team has always been very prompt and helpful. The product keeps evolving and the newest version has some very cool features e.g business glossary.

Cons

There is nothing I can think of I must say.

Pros

As a developer, documentation can be tedious. We were previously using a MS Word Template to do tech designs, requiring a lot of manual entry to document database objects, columns and the database portion of the integrations. This has replaced that. It is invaluable from a database documentation perspective and also being able to combine it with application documentation of a fuller technical process. Just check the database objects related to the application and your DB portion of documentation is covered.

Cons

I don't really have any complaints. I am looking forward to some of the enhanced web sharing options which are in development.

Pros

For the first time we are able to democratize logic and computation for each key metric in our company using this tool. The best part is we do everything through code.

So whenever code changes documentation also change. This makes sure that documentation is always up t date.

No separate manual effort needed to make sure documentation is up to date

Cons

1. They have to move to web based tool soon. We are still installing the product on our machine.
2. They need to improve on giving customizable format for documentation

Pros

This is one of the most intuitive software I have ever used and was easy to setup and implement quickly. The search features, publishing HTML and documentation tools are amazingly helpful.

Cons

I have only had a positive experience with this software. I wish I had found it sooner.

Pros

The dynamic feature of its documentation. I can click a button and connect it to my server, and it automatically generates the documentation and relations between all of the tables.

Cons

Since our database is pretty large, it takes some time to generate a report, but this is only when generating the report itself. Once it's generated, it's extremely fast to find what you need.

Pros

Perfect solution for documenting complex back-end DB's projects. facilitates filling holes in database documentation that does not exist in Microsoft SQL Server. Dataedo sits in its own database on server. dependencies' trees solved. love the ability to add foreign keys for future implementation.

Cons

area of improvement would be adding architecture printing.

Pros

We mainly used Dataedo for ERD generation ad-hoc. But when we saw where we could document our databases for our DevOps team, we readily implemented more features.

Cons

At times, it feels a little slow to respond when updating/saving but that may be due to VPN access into our servers.

Pros

There's definitely a UI element that is easy for us to use. I didn't have to go too in-depth with the tutorials to figure out what exists and what does not, it was pretty close to plug and play if you've used databases before.

You can write the content for people who are non-developers as well, and it's pretty easy to follow.

Cons

Nothing that's too crazy, it would be good to see where certain tables were applied in the ERDs. I wished column descriptions were available through the ERD as well so there would not be too much back and forth - but that's being nit-picky.

Pros

Para las bases de datos postgress, sql server, permite documentar de manera automatica, trayendo todas las tablas, atributos relaciones

Cons

En mi caso le falta fortalecer la captura de datos para db2 for i