ER Diagram Tool
Design
Databases and
Systems Easily
Quickly create your ER diagrams and database designs,
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.
Over 6 Million people and 1000s of teams already use Creately
Create Better Database Models
Simple to use drag and drop tools and automatic drawing with Plus Create to draw conceptual, logical, or physical data models.
Multiple formats and notations; use Chens, Crowsfoot or DB Tables to design your databases.
Purpose-designed diagram tools to enable super-smooth workflows when designing entity relationship diagrams and DBs.
10,000+ professional shape library to create databases, data flows, network diagrams, flowcharts, UML diagrams, and more.
Create ER Diagrams Collaboratively
Real-time cursors for any number of participants. Collaborate with team members on a shared canvas.
Video conferencing baked into the platform to feel like you are in the same room.
Comment with context, have discussions and follow-ups on the same canvas. Async!
Embed ER diagrams on any site or intranet or share with anyone via an email or link invite to collaborate on.
Version history to save and revert back to each iteration to streamline reviewing and revising going forward.
Create a Shared Repository
Embed documents and assets with in-app previews to centralize data around information system projects to determine requirements and make quick decisions.
Infinite canvas that scales up to 1000s of items in a single view to build databases for effective knowledge sharing across projects.
Add detailed notes to each element on the canvas to plan and capture decisions and to show necessary information inline.
Multiple access and role levels to streamline sharing, reviewing, and editing ER diagrams with clients and stakeholders.
Play with New Ideas, Minus Drawing Time
Reuse the Model objects in multiple diagrams for multi-perspective design.
Extend your ER diagrams by storing more details on entity sets, relationships, and attributes with custom properties and additional data fields.
Use frames inside the infinite canvas to generate page-like layouts to organize your data, group similar content, or build a presentation flow for clients.
Universal, full-text search to easily find specific nodes and information in large, complex ER diagrams.
Popular Use Cases for Visualizing Database Systems
- Insurance Company ER Diagram Example
- Enrollment System ER Diagram
- Total Participation Constraint ER Example
- E-R Diagram for Supplies Contract System
- Project Management System ER Diagram
- Music Records Entity Relationship Example
- Online Mobile Shop System ER Example
- e-Commerce Database
- CDM Database Diagram
- College Database ER Diagram
- Fitness Application Database ERD
- Mongo Schema
Extensive Resources, Toolkits and Guides
1000’s of templates, guides and toolkits for multiple domains and industries.
What is an 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.
How to Make an ER Diagram?
- Choose your platform to create the ER diagram. Creately offers an intuitive interface for drawing ER diagrams online with use-case based ER diagram templates.
- 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.
- 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.
- Add attributes for entities. Give meaningful attribute names so they can be understood easily.
- Organize the ER diagram in a logical way to increase comprehension. Once completed, you can export it in PDF, PNG, JPEG or SVG formats to embed on other sites or share it with others.