Technical features

DB-MAIN is free of charge.

It is implemented in C++ with the widget toolkit wxWidgets.
It runs on Windows (95, 98, Me, NT, 2000, XP, Vista and 7) and Linux.
The lastest Windows version is the stable version .
The lastest Linux version is the Beta version 9.b0.

DB-MAIN contains all functionalities of data-modeling tool.

It has no restriction on project size.

It contains SQL and ODBC extractors, and generators for MySQL, PostgreSQL, Access, Interbase and SQL92.

With the JIDBM library, the user can develop JAVA plug-ins accessing to the repository and functions of DB-MAIN. See the JIDBM reference manual (JIDBM-reference-manual.pdf) for more information.

DB-MAIN has also two interesting JAVA plug-ins:

1. A DocBook generator ("plugins\docbook" directory) to produce under a XML format (specific to technical documentations) the content of the DB-MAIN repository. Free tools can transform the DocBook files into HTML, Help HTML, PDF, ... files.
2. A mapping assistant ("plugins\mapping" directory) manages the mappings between objects of differents schemas.

DB-MAIN has a use license valid for one year including tool maintenance. Any new release or new version can be downloaded during that period.

After the filling of the download form, the user will automatically receive by mail a license number to be introduced at the first start of DB-MAIN. This number gives a right of use for one year. When the expiry date is reached, you must either download the lastest version of DB-MAIN or renew the license number. DB-MAIN prevents the users 30 days before expiry of the right.

More details on the license DB-MAIN.