Supported Databases
Below the list of supported databases. Please note that reverse engineering existing databases is only available in the Professional and the Expert edition. Alter/update database functionality is only available in the Expert edition (Compare Editions).
| Database | Diagramming | Forward engineering |
Reverse engineering |
Compare database to model and update model | Compare database to model and update/alter database |
| dBase (1) | X | X | Native connection | X | - |
| DBISAM 4 (1) | X | X | Native connection | X | - |
| Firebird 1.5, 2, 3 | X | X | Native connection and SQL file import | X | X |
| FoxPro (1) | X | X | Native connection | X | - |
| Google BigQuery | X | X | Native connection and SQL file import | X | X |
| IBM DB2 Univ. DB 7, 8, 9 | X | X | OLEDB connection and SQL file import | X | - |
| InterBase 6, 7, 2009, XE | X | X | Native connection and SQL file import | X | X |
| Informix 9 | X | X | SQL file import | X | - |
| MS Access 2000, 2003, 2007, 2010 and 2013 (2) | X | X | ADO/ODBC/Native connection | X | X |
| Azure SQL | X | X | Native connection and SQL file import | X | X |
| MS SQL Server 2000, 2005, 2008, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2019 and 2022 | X | X | Native connection and SQL file import | X | X |
| MySQL 4, 5, 6 and 8 | X | X | Native connection (with support for SSL) and SQL file import | X | X |
| Oracle 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 18, 19, 21c and 23c | X | X | Native connection and SQL file import | X | X |
| Paradox (1) | X | X | Native connection | X | - |
| Pervasive v8, PSQL v9 | X | X | SQL file import | X | - |
| PostgreSQL 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 and 16 | X | X | Native connection (with support for SSL) and SQL file import | X | X |
| Snowflake | X | X | Native connection and SQL file import | X | X |
| SQLite 3 (2) | X | X | Native connection and SQL file import | X | X |
| Sybase ASE 11, 12 | X | X | SQL file import | X | - |
(1) For dBase, DBISAM, FoxPro and Paradox, table files are generated directly.
(2) For MS Access and SQLite, the database files are generated directly.
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