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Ah, it's SASS style – I was hoping for an open source project. This product seems like a nice feature, but not a standalone product I would pay for (mainly because $5/month is difficult to get approved in a larger organization, it's not about the cost itself). I could see myself using this in conjunction with a cloud SQL provider or with a local DB tool like DataGrip.

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Since you mentioned DataGrip, it seems like IDEA has this capability built in - [0]. You may need the Ultimate version. In that case, the $5/month really comes down to the collaboration features, although, office 365/google docs could be a poor-man's alternative.

For MySQL users on macOS, Sequel Pro can export your schema to graphviz format as well - [1]

[0] - https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/creating-diagrams.html [1] - https://www.norbauer.com/rails-consulting/notes/erd-diagrams...

I also wanted to find an open source project at the beginning, but it was not suitable.

You could try SchemaSpy http://schemaspy.org/

Downsides are I need to have the Java JVM installed to use it. Also had to do some make a custom property file to make it work with postgres 12 the last time I used it.

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