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24 alternatives to Tiger SQL

Secure, AI-powered PostgreSQL schema visualizer & designer

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.

  1. 1CA

    Last year we launched ChartDB OSS (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44972238) - an open-source tool that generates ER diagrams from your database (via query/sql/dbml) without needing direct DB access. Now we’re launching the ChartDB Agent. It helps you design databases from scratch or make schema changes with natural language. You can: - Generate schemas by simply describing them in plain English - Brainstorm new tables, columns, and relationships with AI - Iterate visually in a diagram (ERD) - Deterministically export SQL script Try it out here -…

    2025 · app.chartdb.io · its alternatives →

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    GraphQL for Postgres. Contribute to solidsnack/GraphpostgresQL development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2015 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Idea to Postgres database

    2024 · supabase.com · its alternatives →

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    Write SQL without knowing SQL

    2023 · supabase.com · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN! We are Jonathan & Guy, and we are happy to share a project we’ve been working on. ChartDB is a tool to help developers and data analysts quickly visualize database schemas by generating ER diagrams with just one query. A unique feature of our product is AI-Powered export for easy migration. You can give it a try at https://chartdb.io and find the source code on GitHub. Next steps ---> More AI. We’d love feedback :)

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Real-time database schemas for AI-IDEs via MCP protocol

    2025 · schemaflow.dev · its alternatives →

  8. 8PN

    We've been hard at work for a few weeks and thought it's time for another update. In case you missed our first post, PostgresML is an end-to-end machine learning solution, running alongside your favorite database. This time we have more of a suite offering: project management, visibility into the datasets and the deployment pipeline decision making. Let us know what you think! Demo link is on the page, and also here: https://demo.postgresml.org

    2022 · postgresml.org · its alternatives →

  9. 9PT

    Create ER diagrams, SQL schemas, and DBML models. No Signup required, Nothing to install. All diagrams are 100% private, secure and processed locally right in your web browser

    2023 · databasediagram.com · its alternatives →

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    Hey all! I released drawDB about a month ago and now it's open source. I hope you find it useful. If you want to check out the app you can go to https://drawdb.vercel.app/ . Thank you:)

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    SnapQL is an open-source desktop app (built with Electron) that lets you query your Postgres database using natural language. It’s schema-aware, so you don’t need to copy-paste your schema or write complex SQL by hand. Everything runs locally — your OpenAI API key, your data, and your queries — so it's secure and private. Just connect your DB, describe what you want, and SnapQL writes and runs the SQL for you.

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    A look at modern database approaches and how Citus scales PG

    2016 · softwareengineeringdaily.com · its alternatives →

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    Last summer we faced a conundrum at my company, Tiger Data, a Postgres cloud vendor whose main business is in timeseries data. We were trying to grow our business towards emerging AI-centric workloads and wanted to provide a state-of-the-art hybrid search stack in Postgres. We'd already built pgvectorscale in house with the goal of scaling semantic search beyond pgvector's main memory limitations. We just needed a scalable ranked keyword search solution too. The problem: core Postgres doesn't provide this; the leading Postgres BM25 extension, ParadeDB, is guarded behind AGPL; developing our…

    Mar 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN, I built pg-mcp, a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for PostgreSQL that provides structured schema inspection and query execution for LLMs and agents. It's multi-tenant and runs over HTTP/SSE (not stdio) Features - Supports multiple database connections from multiple agents - Schema Introspection: Returns table structures, types, indexes and constraints; enriched with descriptions from pg_catalog. (for well documented databases) - Read-Only Queries: Controlled execution of queries via MCP. - EXPLAIN Tool: Helps smart agents optimize queries before execution. - Extension…

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Nabubit▲203

    Your database design copilot

    2024 · its alternatives →

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    Contribute to Z-Gort/Reservoirs-Lab development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Instant batch data import for Postgres

    2024 · schemamap.io · its alternatives →

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    Schema▲27

    Postgres and MySQL databases for iOS

    2025 · tryschema.com · its alternatives →

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    A native GUI tool for MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server & more

    2018 · tableplus.com · its alternatives →

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    You know Postgres, now you know machine learning

    2023 · postgresml.org · its alternatives →

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    RelateDB▲140

    Offline-first database schema designer in your browser

    Jan 2026 · relatedb.com · its alternatives →

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    Instant Realtime GraphQL on Postgres

    2018 · hasura.io · its alternatives →

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    For the past 10 years at Timescale (now Tiger Data), I've been been watching developers make mistakes in database design: forgetting to index foreign keys, creating case-sensitive email lookups, using arbitrary VARCHAR limits. And I've seen the pain and frustration when there is major downtime and botched migrations fixing things. AI coding could have made this better but is only making things worse. It's infuriating. So, I (along with my awesome team at Tiger Data) built an MCP server that auto-injects Postgres best practices into AI context to help. The biggest innovation: our…

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Free online database schema design tool. Draw entity-relationship diagrams, generate SQL for PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite, MariaDB, SQL Server & Oracle, import/export DBML, and collaborate on data models in real time.

    2024 · drawdb.vercel.app · its alternatives →

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