5 Reasons to Choose ODM

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  AI Supports Where Human Limits Are Reached!
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  The Hidden Cost of Operational Workarounds!
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  Performance Issues Often Stem from Poor Table Design!
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  We Prioritize SQL Standards!
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  Quick to Start — Just Sign Up and Go!

• AI Supports Where Human Limits Are Reached!

  Humans aren’t great at repetitive tasks—especially engineers. It would be ideal to have a spell checker for table and column names, but database design requires a specialized one. Existing tools require you to configure naming conventions and checking rules before use. Honestly, that’s cumbersome, making adoption difficult and limiting their popularity. ODM, however, works instantly without any setup, ensuring your database design improves reliably.

  Quality Improvement Features: Spell checking, naming convention enforcement, data type consistency checks, normalization validation, and anti-pattern detection. ODM not only flags issues but also suggests concrete fixes. Unlike coding assistants like GitHub Copilot, which may produce seemingly good code but can make it harder to spot careless mistakes, ODM thoroughly reviews the entire database to catch issues that are often overlooked by human eyes.

  

• The Hidden Cost of Operational Workarounds!

  Meeting deadlines often means overlooking issues in database design. But when mistakes are discovered during production, can you really fix them retroactively? Or do you sometimes just ignore them? Database designs in live systems are rarely updated, resulting in hidden, ongoing costs—those “workarounds in operations.” ODM helps you avoid these pitfalls and keeps your costs in check.

  A System to Prevent Overlooked Tasks: Following the lean principle of “building in quality” is key to reducing future workload. ODM is extremely fast and won’t disrupt your development flow. You can check the latest deliverables as many times a day as needed. By addressing all of ODM’s feedback, you can build quality without relying on specific individuals. Additionally, you can assign table design improvements to less experienced team members, allowing your senior member to focus on more advanced requirements and design tasks.

  

• Performance Issues Often Stem from Poor Table Design!

  Performance issues often arise once a system goes live. When experts analyze slow queries, they often find the root cause is poor table design. However, fixing this after deployment can be costly and challenging. Post-launch fixes are always a headache and can even cause system failures. What’s the solution? Start with the right design from the beginning. ODM doesn’t just point out problems—it also offers alternative solutions to programmers. Build a system that maintains high performance with ODM.

  Proper Design Protects Performance: Performance degradation is often caused by unnecessary SELECTs, ad-hoc indexing, and designs that don’t consider table growth. Simply asking, “Have you thought about how this table will behave when it grows large?” can help uncover hidden issues. ODM detects potential performance bottlenecks by analyzing table and column names, alerting you to possible problems. Of course, it also checks indexes and foreign keys.

  

• We Prioritize SQL Standards!

  Using features unique to specific database products can lead to vendor lock-in. Adhering to SQL standards and avoiding product-specific features not only prevents lock-in but also promotes robust design. There are few tools available to help avoid product-specific features, and among those that do, only ODM offers alternative solutions.

  Vendor-Neutral ODM: ODM supports the syntax of Oracle, SQL Server, DB2, MySQL, and PostgreSQL. Optima has no financial ties with any database vendor and provides impartial advice. We prioritize SQL standards and offer solutions that avoid vendor lock-in. When product-specific features are intentionally used, ODM also suggests effective usage methods and strategies to ensure portability in case of future changes.

  

• Quick to Start — Just Sign Up and Go!

  If you’ve used Datadog, you understand the importance of easy setup. When it comes to database design, selecting various tools, writing configuration files, user manuals, and Dockerfiles requires significant preparation — not to mention ongoing maintenance of those files and documents. With ODM, simply sign up and upload your design documents to get instant reports.

  The Ease of ODM: Tools like SQLFluff, a SQL linting tool, require setup, configuration file maintenance, and team-wide agreement on usage—tasks that can be time-consuming and complex in real operations. ODM is truly simple to use. You can get it up and running immediately by assigning just one person in your team, and individual team members can use it without any issues. (Support for integration with CI/CD tools like GitHub Actions is also planned.)