drawDB
Dev tools
database diagram editor
SHOW HN2024
311points
67comments
#191of 3,515 in 2024
Top 6%of 2024 by points
How HN took it
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9 positive, 16 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 3 critical, out of 29 comments about the project. Thread score +0.18.
Idea: 4 for, 2 againstDesign: 2 for, 1 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Clean, useful diagram editor that fills a gap
From 3 comments
Fantastic. I was literally just looking for something like this. I'm using it now. One thing that may be me getting my brain reversed, but when you set the "cardinality" of a…
sopooneo on HNThis is awesome I was just looking for something like that. The ability to build the diagram from the SQL source is really cool! Thanks!
p4bl0 on HNOh, this is nice!
victorbjorklund on HN
Objections
Flush Storage deletes everything without confirmation
From 1 comment
Looks real nice! Clean for sure. First feedback I have is, when you click "Settings" > "Flush Storage" there is no "Hey this button will delete everything you have been working…
matthasfun on HN
Diagrams are not true ER notation (no diamonds)
From 1 comment
This looks great! However, a pet peeve of mine that I always share with my students is that ER diagrams do not have foreign keys. ER diagrams represent relationships with a…
michaelmior on HN
Requests
PostgreSQL import support
From 2 comments
Cool project. Your website is much more detailed than your Github so I'd like to share this for visibility: https://drawdb.vercel.app/ Any updates on PostgreSQL import support?
DiggyJohnson on HNAs soon as you add postgres SQL import this will be my daily driver! (I've been looking for a tool like this many times)
jesperwe on HN
VSCode extension
From 2 comments
This looks great. Would be even better if it lived in VSCode, auto-syncing with my DDL files...
MForster on HNHave you considered packaging this as a VSCode extension?
trenchgun on HN
Choose database to restrict data types
From 2 comments
Looks very nice! A few things I'd like to see to make it more useful: - Let me pick a database when I start so the data types are restricted to that particular database. This can…
zimmund on HNLol no worries. It was pure "I don't know what I expected" for the succeeding 2 seconds. Other feedback is that it would be nice to be able to set it to say "I want to design a…
matthasfun on HN
Questions
Why is the project named drawdb-io
From 1 comment
What's up with projects using "-io"/".io" in their name but not actually using a .io domain? drawio.com brands itself as "draw.io" but uses .com. OP, why is it "drawdb-io"? Cool…
wazbug on HN
Alternatives named
dbdiagram.io
From 1 comment
Nothing beats dbdiagram [0]! [0]: https://dbdiagram.io/
nikolay on HN
DBML
From 1 comment
DBML (https://dbml.dbdiagram.io/docs/) is the only thing I've seen in this space.
nfm on HN
SchemaSpy
From 1 comment
Maybe you can use schemaspy? https://schemaspy.org/
phaza on HN
draw.io
From 1 comment
At first I thought this was drawio: https://www.drawio.com/ with which you can generate a schema diagram from SQL. Is this the other way around.
account-5 on HN