SqlDBM is a SAAS tool, the only one available for the Google BigQuery platform. It's easily accessible, quite intuitive in navigation, offers collaborative work through branching, provides versioning, which allows to step back and compare versions. Diagrams can be saved into a visual document; the model can be exported into Excel document to populate descriptive information and load it back into the model. Governance features allow to create labels on column and table level. After a year of use, we are still discovering and learning, as there is a wealth of functionality. Getting started with SqlDBM was easy with the support staff that is both knowledgeable and responsive. The vendor is flexible and accommodating, aiming at your success with the tool. There is abundance of easily findable documentation - written and video recordings. We started with reverse-engineering of our datasets into a comprehensive model, and from that point, the tool is being used daily by multiple development teams to design new tables, get them reviewed and approved by both business and IT.

Online, collaborative, super intuitive. I am able to visualize my Databricks schema in a matter of a few clicks, understand, find bottlenecks, document and communicate with my peers and cherry on top all my changes are version-controlled.

Feature Requests delivered at lightning speed by one of the product support staffs I have worked with. The training is top notch and free via their Data Modeling Academy or via personal sessions with their Customer Experience Mangers and Support Staff, no more burning through contractual support minutes. They are there when you need them. The cloud-based model management is a huge plus compared to other tools that require you to spin-up a database to hold your data models off of your local drive. You get access to the tool on the cloud, set up a few controls like admins, and you are ready to model. With SqlDBM, you won't spend a week commissioning servers, installing the tool and repository, writing custom macros and making the tool brittle like its competitors after doing things like automatic conversions, templates (naming or repeated fields), and other data modeling standards enforcements right "out of the box." What makes SqlDBM the best is a great product with monthly, seamless, cloud-based version releases; it's collaboration with Snowflake; its simplicity; and its incredible staff.