We performed a comparison between IDERA ER/Studio and MIMIX [EOL] based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Oracle, Quest Software, SolarWinds and others in Database Development and Management."Modeling with Data Architect: We can quickly reverse-engineer a database from an existing database or create a model from scratch."
"It does the job."
"Data lineage tracking: It allows us to identify upstream and downstream systems using data."
"It's easy to model and has a user-friendly interface. I like the team portal because, once we upload, the entire team can see the model."
"The data modeling and reverse engineering features are most important to us."
"When validating the model, the ability to provide sub-models to developers, and generate a physical model from the logical, makes it easier to review a logical model with stakeholders."
"The interface is really simple to use and it allows me to pick and choose which tables I want to reverse engineer."
"The most important features are logical and physical models that we can compare and develop. Also, the Data Dictionary can be created out of your studio. Finally, database schemas help understand the logic that's behind the scene, behind the SQL tables. Especially when there are a lot of them, the schemas help everyone understand the business processes."
"The initial setup is straightforward. It's very easy to implement the solution. Deployment took about one hour. You only need one person for deployment and maintenance, so long as that person has a good background of administration and operation."
"It would be helpful if they could create a generic JSON database type, as a target database, rather than a specific one like Mongo."
"when there are some links to the external databases, if this database is not structured it is not uploaded. It gives me errors and I cannot see the view that was created on this structure and I cannot change those views, even manually. It skips the views. I have to ignore those views. I cannot re-upload them because it gives me an error."
"We did have a big issue when we upgraded to the 2016 version. The Team Server portion never did quite install correctly, and/or the database was corrupted, and we never figured it out."
"The number of options can be overwhelming at times. That is not necessarily a bad thing but for a newbie, it can be daunting."
"What needs the most improvement are semantic lineage and usability."
"I would like to see better documentation/help for the Data Architect tool. Creation of tutorials would be nice, as there are some features which are not as clearly defined as they should be."
"I would like to upload, a database with about 3,000 tables. It takes so much time and, finally, it freezes the whole solution so that I actually cannot work with that environment. For the data warehouse, it's fine because I have 20 or 30 tables. It works fine. But, when I reverse-engineer the database with 3,000 tables, it freezes and it's hard to upload and reverse-engineer such environments in ER/Studio."
"When building the relationships there should be a little more flexibility."
"The solution could use better dashboards for new users. They can look complicated until you get used to using the solution."
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IDERA ER/Studio is ranked 13th in Database Development and Management with 33 reviews while MIMIX [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Database Development and Management. IDERA ER/Studio is rated 8.4, while MIMIX [EOL] is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of IDERA ER/Studio writes "The solution has important reverse engineering features, but it needs a single sign-on feature". On the other hand, the top reviewer of MIMIX [EOL] writes "Enables custom machine real-time replication process with verification of destination". IDERA ER/Studio is most compared with erwin Data Modeler by Quest, Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect, SAP PowerDesigner, Toad Data Modeler and Aqua Data Studio, whereas MIMIX [EOL] is most compared with .
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