erd vs ampersand

erd

Translates a plain text description of a relational database schema to a graphical entity-relationship diagram. (by BurntSushi)

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ampersand

Build database applications faster than anyone else, and keep your data pollution free as a bonus. (by AmpersandTarski)

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ampersandtarski.github.io

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erd		ampersand
	Project
4	Mentions	0
1,717	Stars	40
-	Growth	-
0.0	Activity	9.1
about 1 month ago	Latest Commit	12 days ago
Haskell	Language	Haskell
LicenseRef-PublicDomain	License	LicenseRef-GPL

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erd

Posts with mentions or reviews of erd. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-11-22.

D2 is now open source – a new, modern language that turns text to diagrams
34 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 22 Nov 2022

I like it and the comparison site on https://text-to-diagram.com
I just wanted to drop a reference to Burnt Sushi's ERD tool [0]. It only does one diagram type: Entity Relationship Diagram. It's wonderful. Human-first syntax, code comments, and some simple formatting settings like colors and font sizes that help make more complex diagram pleasing and informative.
[0] https://github.com/BurntSushi/erd
What’s everyone’s favourite documentation tools?
3 projects | /r/dataengineering | 20 Oct 2021
Recommendations for a CLI-tool to generate DB diagrams?
2 projects | /r/PostgreSQL | 28 Dec 2020

Only tool I've come across is erd but have not personally used it. We use LucidChart for our ERDs at work. They have an API to export to PNG and to create documents within it. The documentation for the API is dense, but it is something I am hoping to take a hack day or two to try to understand and see if I can automate generating and updating our own ERDs.