Manufacturer / project: Softbuilder
When does it fit?
Historically suited database developers who wanted a desktop workflow to reverse-engineer schemas, assign generators, preview results, and populate test databases without writing a custom generator. 1
Fit still depends on your mandatory requirements.
What should you check before choosing?
The standalone product is retired; vendor support ended May 31, 2025. Its feature matrix distinguishes Standard limits of 10,000 rows per table from Professional unlimited generation; current purchase or support should not be implied. 1 · 2 · 3
What must your PoC prove?
Use a parent/child fixture, one invalid row and a fixed expected result. Check cleanup after failure, restore the configuration and repeat with pinned inputs. Unresolved requirements need a demonstration.
Acceptance plan, not a product test result. Execution scope and limits.
Deployment and license
Historically a Windows desktop database tool. Softbuilder now directs users to ERBuilder 8 for the integrated data-generation feature; SB Data Generator is no longer offered standalone. 1 · 2 · 3
Formerly a proprietary paid product with Standard and Professional tiers, trial/download links, and quote/buy routes. It is retired; current license prices were not recoverable from the vendor's product page. 1 · 2 · 3
Confirm the entitled version and operating requirements.
How you work with it
The former Windows generator is retired as a standalone product; evaluate the successor ERBuilder generation feature. 1 · 2 · 3
Export does not establish compatibility with another runtime.
Documented capabilities
Documentation is not a measured benchmark. Unclear is missing evidence; the comparison matrix explains the gap.
Sources and scope
Sources can cover different releases; they do not establish measured performance.
Open the cited sources (3)
- SB Data Generator retirement announcement
Vendor states standalone product retired, integrated into ERBuilder, and support/maintenance ended May 31, 2025.
Source checked: 2026-10-01 - SB Data Generator feature matrix
Historical supported databases, reverse engineering, data generation, CSV import/export, and Standard 10,000-row versus Professional unlimited per-table limits.
Source checked: 2026-10-01 - Softbuilder announces SB Data Generator 2.2
Vendor announcement distributed by PostgreSQL community documents historical multi-database support; secondary to current vendor retirement notice.
Source checked: 2026-10-01