Die folgende, im amerikanischen Original übernommene Tabelle zeigt einen Vergleich der Leistungsmerkmale:
| Modeling
Feature |
Corporate
|
DB Engineer
|
OO Edition
|
Standard
|
| DFD Business Process Modeling |
|
|
|
|
| Functional Decomposition |
|
|
|
|
| System/App Design Modeling |
|
|
|
|
| 3GL Code Generation from SC |
|
|
|
|
| Entity Life History Diagrams |
|
|
|
|
| SSADM and Metrica methodologies |
|
|
|
|
| Process Integration with Data |
|
|
|
|
| Links to Source Code Under Version Control |
|
|
|
|
| Strategic Planning |
|
|
|
|
| Logical
Data Modeling |
| Log/Phys different model structure |
|
|
|
|
| Logical-Physical
Translation |
| 1:1 Entity=Table |
Optional
|
Optional
|
|
Mandatory
|
| Auto-Denormalize Physical Database |
|
|
|
|
| Conceptual
View of Logical |
| Summarize Logical-conceptual (Cluster) |
|
|
|
|
| Physical
Database Design |
| Trigger & Stored Procedure Support |
|
|
|
|
| Tablespace storage support |
|
|
|
|
| Database View Support |
|
|
|
|
| Database Compare |
|
|
|
|
| Alter DB to match model (Comp. &
Alter) |
2
|
2
|
|
|
| Alter Model to match database |
|
|
|
|
| Forward Engineering of Databases |
|
|
|
|
| Reverse Engineering of Databases |
|
|
|
|
| Legacy
Design Recovery |
| SQL Script |
|
|
|
|
| Direct/ODBC Connection |
|
|
|
|
| COBOL data division import |
1
|
|
|
|
| Object
Modeling |
| Class Models |
|
|
|
|
| Methods/Operations |
|
|
|
|
| Association Aggregation, etc. |
|
|
|
|
| State Models |
|
|
|
|
| Activity Models |
|
|
|
|
| Collaboration Models |
|
|
|
|
| Sequence Models |
|
|
|
|
| Use-case Models |
|
|
|
|
| GDPro interface |
|
|
|
|
| Integrated
Dev. Environment Interfaces |
| Visible Developer Interface |
|
|
|
|
| Visual Basic Interface |
|
|
|
|
| Powerbuilder interface |
|
|
|
|
| Team Windows, Uniface, Progress |
|
|
|
|
| Repository
/ Architecture |
| Open repository hosting options |
|
|
|
|
| Distributed Repository option |
|
|
|
|
| Model
Management |
| Real time Multi-User |
|
|
|
|
| Divisions model subsetting capability |
|
|
|
|
| Check-out/in w/lock |
|
|
|
|
| Proposed Change authority |
|
|
|
|
| Object change auth control |
|
|
|
|
| Object Ownership Controls |
|
|
|
|
| Custom Field Extensibility |
|
|
|
|
| Custom Object Extensibility |
|
|
|
|
1Cobol data
division import requires Visible Analyst COBOL reverse
engineering utility.
2Available in Version 8.0. |