DB-MAIN

DB-MAIN is a data-modeling and data-architecture tool. It is designed to help developers and analysts in most data engineering Processes, including: - Design processes: requirement Analysis, conceptual design, normalisation, Schema Integration, logical design, physical design, schema optimisation, code generation. - Transformations: schema transformation, model transformation, ETL. - Reverse engineering and program understanding: schema analysis (COBOL, CODASYL, IMS, IDMS, SQL, XML, ...), code analysis, data and data flow reverse engineering. - Maintenance, evolution and integration: database migration, database evolution, Impact analysis, database integration and federation, data wrapper design and generation. - And many other domains like temporal and active databases, datawarehouse, XML engineering, ... DB-MAIN also includes meta-modeling components that allow its users to develop new functions and extend its repository.