SqlDBM API
SqlDBM publishes a versioned REST API (v1.4.0) at developers.sqldbm.com, gated to paid tiers. Personal access tokens come from the dashboard; endpoints read DDL, dbt artifacts, and diagrams per revision, with new POST endpoints for projects and branches. No webhooks and no SDKs.
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SqlDBM scores B+ on the API Report Card. SqlDBM publishes a versioned REST API (v1.4.0) at developers.sqldbm.com, gated to paid tiers. Personal access tokens come from the dashboard; endpoints read DDL, dbt artifacts, and diagrams per revision, with new POST endpoints for projects and branches. No webhooks and no SDKs.
SqlDBM has a workable official integration path. Most engineering teams can build against it directly. Solid API with minor gaps
SqlDBM is a cloud-native, browser-based data modeling platform that lets enterprise data teams collaboratively design, document, version, and deploy schemas to cloud data warehouses and lakehouses.
Vertical: misc / horizontal developer & data-engineering tooling. Not a fit for any of Supergood's named verticals. Greenfield data warehouse design: model star / snowflake / Data Vault / Data Mesh schemas for a new Snowflake or Databricks deployment and forward-engineer the DDL.
High within the cloud-native data-modeling niche; medium within the broader ERD / data-modeling category.
Data that flows through SqlDBM on behalf of customers is design-time and metadata about cloud data warehouses, not the operational row data inside them.
Founded 2016 in San Francisco, California. The platform is fully browser-based (no desktop client) and is built on a modern web stack (HTML5 canvas / JavaScript SPA + cloud back end).
API is paywalled, only paid tiers (Pro / Team / Enterprise) include access, so free/community users cannot script anything. For most of the API's life only GET endpoints were available (POST was advertised as 'coming soon'); only recently (v1.4.0) have POST endpoints for project/revision/branch creation and dbt manifest upload landed. Full sourced list under Sources below.
Common alternatives include ERwin Data Modeler (Quest), ER/Studio (IDERA), SAP PowerDesigner, Vertabelo (Redgate Data Modeler), DbSchema, Hackolade. Graded alternatives appear under "More from the report card" below.
Grades measure one thing: can a customer's engineering team get their own data out programmatically? We check six things (whether a real API exists, how access is gated, data coverage, auth quality, docs and developer experience, and stability) and roll them into a letter grade. Grades get re-verified, and they only move on evidence.