DbSchema vs. Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
DbSchema
Score 8.0 out of 10
N/A
N/AN/A
Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect
Score 6.3 out of 10
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Enterprise Architect is the flagship architecture management platform from global, Australian-headquartered company Sparx Systems.
$229
per license
Pricing
DbSchemaSparx Systems Enterprise Architect
Editions & Modules
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Professional
$229
per license
Corporate
$299
per license
Unified
$499
per license
Ultimate
$699
per license
Offerings
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DbSchemaSparx Systems Enterprise Architect
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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DbSchemaSparx Systems Enterprise Architect
Features
DbSchemaSparx Systems Enterprise Architect
Database Development
Comparison of Database Development features of Product A and Product B
DbSchema
7.0
1 Ratings
19% below category average
Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect
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Ratings
Version control tools7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Test data generation10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Performance optimization tools3.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Schema maintenance9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Database change management6.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Database Administration
Comparison of Database Administration features of Product A and Product B
DbSchema
5.0
1 Ratings
46% below category average
Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect
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Ratings
User management5.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Database security5.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Change management5.01 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
DbSchemaSparx Systems Enterprise Architect
Likelihood to Recommend
8.0
(1 ratings)
9.0
(5 ratings)
Usability
8.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
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7.5
(2 ratings)
User Testimonials
DbSchemaSparx Systems Enterprise Architect
Likelihood to Recommend
Wise Coders Solutions
Well suited to a team working directly in the physical modeling space.
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Sparx Systems
Enterprise Architect can be used to capture business requirements, design and management of all successive models, algorithms, process flows/workflows, design of business data objects and other artifacts. The strong point is the ability to link the items in all models with each other, the more time the analysts and designers "invest" into making nice and clearly defined models, the higher the future pay-off by any successive changes to the systems. Enterprise Architect is not a good tool for capturing rather unstructured business requirements, use e.g. Confluence or other solutions instead. EA should comprise the extracted models with very little unstructured information. Management of the changes process should not be done in Enterprise Architect, rather use JIRA/Confluence or similar.
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Pros
Wise Coders Solutions
  • Many database platforms supported
  • Direct database integration - option to have model actions reflected immediately in database.
  • Test data generation with Groovy scripting for control over specific profiles
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Sparx Systems
  • Open Architecture - A wide and extensive set of options, plug-ins and customization options make Sparx EA more of a tool kit than just a tool. Most tools allow customization but Sparx EA is built from the ground up with this in mind.
  • Wide variety of formats, lexicons, standards and data import export capabilities allow different roles to interact with the information in different ways.
  • Automated report generation allows architects and designers to spend less taking on word processing and more time on performing architecture and design.
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Cons
Wise Coders Solutions
  • Logical data model integration is weak. Need way to update existing models with changes
  • Conceptual data modeling is missing
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Sparx Systems
  • Needs someone that is very conversant with business modelling terminology
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Usability
Wise Coders Solutions
DbSchema does a number of things very well, but is not as full featured as many customers will want
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Sparx Systems
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Support Rating
Wise Coders Solutions
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Sparx Systems
The support team of Sparx EA, based in Australia, is always willing to help and give direction.
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Alternatives Considered
Wise Coders Solutions
Some of the other Tools are no longer supported, and DbSchema is much less expensive than most of them.
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Sparx Systems
BiZZdesign represents a different new concept to enterprise architecture, its gravity center is not technical modelling, but rather a view on capturing the whole end-user experience or customer journey. It also allows to grasp areas as internal company capabilities, required for adoption/changes and operation of the solution, uses the same Archimate modelling language. This solution is in my opinion a new generation enabling to not only design the solutions, but also manage the whole application portfolio with respect to capabilities and requirement parameters.
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Return on Investment
Wise Coders Solutions
  • DbSchema is very inexpensive, and functional, so easy to get a team started
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Sparx Systems
  • This program speed up the development process. It generates the actual code with my model classes after modeling
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