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Dev tools · October 15, 2012

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create, share, explore database patterns

create, share, explore database patterns launched on October 15, 2012 with 125 votes, #17 of 487 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 14 years on.

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Dbpatterns is a web-based service where users can create, share, and explore database models and patterns. It caters to developers and database designers who want to collaborate on schema design and learn from existing models. The platform is open-source and community-supported, relying on donations to cover server costs rather than operating on a traditional profit model.

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Dbpatterns is a service that allows you to create, share, explore database models on the web. Tweet Dbpatterns is an open-source project that doesn't have any profit or revenue model. However dbpatterns needs donations to pay server expenses. If you want to help us, you can make donation to keep runningfrom web.archive.org

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