I've been searching for something similar for along time. Just hook up a database, and et voila you can see it, modify and export it with a clean and fast interface. Among the many (really a lot) features you have:
However, to me the most important thing is that the visualization algorithm works really well! You can also choose how to layout the tables in your DB (hierarchic, organic, orthogonal, circular). Oh yes and there's a *free* version of it!!! (Installing DbVisualizer and running it out of the box automatically launches the DbVisualizer Free edition, not as many features as the full version, but still very useful!)
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2012
Digital Humanities 2012, Hamburg, Germany, Jul 2012.
2011
paper Browsing highly interconnected humanities databases through multi-result faceted browsers
Digital Humanities 2011 , Stanford, USA, Jun 2011.