ER Diagram Tool
Design Databases and Systems Easily
Quickly create your ER diagrams online, collaborate with your team, maintain and track changes as the design evolves.
- Draw and model as you think. It’s fast and clutter-free
- Real-time visual collaboration, bring your team on board
- Customizable ER diagram templates and shapes
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How to make an ER Diagram?
Create Better Database Models
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Simple to use drag and drop tools to draw conceptual, logical, or physical data models.
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Multiple formats & notations; Chens, Crowsfoot or DB Tables for database designing.
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Purpose-designed diagram tools for efficient ER diagram & database designing.
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Professional shape libraries to create databases, network diagrams, UML, & more.
Create ER Diagrams Collaboratively
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Real-time cursors for any number of participants to collaborate on a shared canvas.
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Comment with context, have discussions & follow-ups on the same canvas. Async!
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Embed ER diagrams on any site or intranet or share with anyone with a workspace link.
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Version history to save and revert back to each iteration of your ER diagram.
Create a Shared Repository
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Embed documents & assets to centralize data around information system projects.
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Infinite canvas to build databases for effective knowledge sharing across projects.
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Add detailed notes to each element to show necessary information inline.
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Multiple access & role levels to manage sharing and reviewing ER diagrams.
Play with New Ideas, Minus Drawing Time
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Store more details on entity sets, relationships, and attributes with shape data.
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Organize your data, group similar content, or build a presentation flow for clients.
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Universal text search to easily find specific nodes in complex ER diagrams.
What is an Entity Relationship (ER) Diagram?
The entity relationship diagram is a high-level conceptual data modeling diagram. It helps with systematically analyzing and identifying data requirements needed for effective database designing.
This is generally the first step in thinking about a systems data design. You will first identify the entities and then create the detailed data model with actual table structures.
Creately supports all levels of Database Design with support for ER Diagrams, Database Diagrams, DFDs and UML models.
How to Make an ER Diagram Collaboratively with Creately?
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Open a Creately workspace for your ER diagram. Creately offers an intuitive interface for drawing ER diagrams online with use-case based ER diagram templates. You can use Creately’s collaboration features such as real-time mouse cursors and synced previews to easily track the changes other participants make in the workspace.
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Once you open the Creately workspace, enable the ER diagram library. You can share the workspace with other key team members to collaborate with them as you identify all the entities in the system. An entity should appear only once in a particular diagram. Create rectangles for all entities and name them properly.
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Then identify relationships between entities. Connect them using a line and add a diamond in the middle describing the relationship. With Plus Create, Creately intelligently suggests the set of next shapes you need to add, cutting back the time taken to manually drag and drop them to the canvas.
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Add attributes for entities. Give meaningful attribute names so they can be understood easily.
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Organize the ER diagram in a logical way to increase comprehension. Once completed, you can export it in PDF, PNG, or SVG formats to embed in other sites or share it with others.
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Use version control and history to track changes and revert to previous versions if necessary. This can help your team keep track of the progress of the diagram and ensure that everyone is working towards the same goals.
Popular Use Cases for Visualizing Database Systems
FAQs about ER Diagrams
An ER diagram presents a graphical representation of entities and the connections between them. Accordingly, a software program that enables users to build and edit ER diagrams is known as an ER diagram tool. For building and modifying the various elements of an ER diagram, like as entities, characteristics, and relationships, these tools often offer a user-friendly interface. The ability to create database schema from ER diagrams and vice versa is offered by many ER diagramming tools.
Some ER diagram tools might also offer functionality like data input and export, database reverse engineering, and real-time collaboration with other users.
Guides and Resources to Design Databases Effectively
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Why is Creately a Better ER Diagram Tool
Creately is the intelligent visual platform enabling visual collaboration, knowledge management and project execution.
100+ proprietary features deliver a flexible, no-code visual platform, expertly-tuned for ease of use.
Infinite Visual Canvas
Visually create and organize any structure you imagine. Drag drop shapes or datasets, embed external content.
Real-Time Collaboration
Work remote or hybrid with realtime cursor tracking, synced previews and proper in-context comments and tasks.
Custom Databases
Create custom databases for any kind of information from tasks, HR personnel records to matters for law firms.
Data Driven Docs
Create docs and notes to go deeper from the high-level visual views. 2 way link to other docs, shapes or data with @mentions.
Professional Diagramming
50+ types of standard diagrams with 1000+ specially designed shapes and connectors enable blazing fast diagramming.
Project & Task Management
Use built-in agile project management tooling or integrate with your favourite project management tool to keep work flowing.
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ISO 27001, SOC 2 - Type 2, Data Residency & Up-time SLAs to collaborate securely with your entire organization.
Powerful Visual Modelling
Visuals that are backed by databases, update once, reflect in multiple views type of workflows.
Enterprise-Grade Security and Compliance
We’re dedicated to keeping your data private, secure and safe. Creately is SOC2-Type 2 and ISO 27001 certified and GDPR compliant. We offer flexible data residency options in USA, EU and Australia to our enterprise customers. Creately Security
Just Plug and Play
An easy-to-use interface with a minimal learning curve. Simply Sign-In using your work email to automatically add team members to the enterprise plan. No installation required.
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