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Charles vs DB Designer

A side-by-side look at Charles and DB Designer. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.

Charles

Charles

Development

Charles is an HTTP proxy / HTTP monitor / Reverse Proxy that enables a developer to view all of the HTTP and SSL / HTTPS traffic between their machine and the Internet. This includes requests, responses and the HTTP headers (which contain the cookies and caching information).

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DB Designer

DB Designer

Development

DB Designer is an open source database modeling and design tool. It allows users to visually model databases including entities, relationships, and more to auto-generate SQL scripts for various databases.

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