erd vs grakn

erd

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

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grakn

A Haskell client for Grakn (by graknlabs)

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erd		grakn
	Project
4	Mentions	-
1,757	Stars	4
-	Growth	-
4.3	Activity	0.0
3 months ago	Latest Commit	over 5 years ago
Haskell	Language	Haskell
LicenseRef-PublicDomain	License	Apache License 2.0

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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
Ask HN: Open-source DB- ERD tool
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 23 Nov 2021
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.

grakn

Posts with mentions or reviews of grakn. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

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Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing erd and grakn you can also consider the following projects:

classy-influxdb-simple

postgresql-simple-migration - PostgreSQL Schema Migrations for Haskell

HongoDB - A Simple Key Value Store

acid-state - Add ACID guarantees to any serializable Haskell data structure

mywatch

HDBC-session - This repository includes a joined query generator based on typefull relational algebra, and mapping tools between SQL values list and Haskell record type.

ampersand - Build database applications faster than anyone else, and keep your data pollution free as a bonus.

squeal-postgresql - Squeal, a deep embedding of SQL in Haskell

esqueleto - Bare bones, type-safe EDSL for SQL queries on persistent backends.

cassy - High level Cassandra bindings for Haskell

yxdb-utils - Utilities for parsing Alteryx Database format

HDBC - Haskell Database Connectivity