KLklaussilveira·Jul 30, 2024Submission
DBML: Marup language designed to define and document database structures
1 points · Open discussionholistics
dbml
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holistics / dbml
dbml
Database Markup Language (DBML), designed to define and document database structures
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Database Markup Language (DBML), designed to define and document database structures
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Observed mentions: 2019-09-02 02:34:31 UTC to 2024-07-30 13:26:29 UTC.
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| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 1 | 1 |
What Hacker News says
6 sourcesThe underlying markup language is, and there's a number of open source renderers
https://github.com/holistics/dbml
In Show HN: Online database diagram editorDBML is a simple, readable DSL language designed to define database structures
1 points · Open discussionWe've been using https://dbdiagram.io/, which also has an open-source markup language: https://github.com/holistics/dbml
In Show HN: Private, text to entity-relationship diagram toolIt took a lot of clicking, but they have a GitHub org, too: https://github.com/holistics/dbml#readme
In DbDiagram – Draw Entity-Relationship Diagrams, PainlesslyOP here. Sharing a bit of history on DBML.
Originated from dbdiagram.io, a simple tool that we built to help you draw ER diagram by using writing code [1]. We shared that project on HN about a year back. Since then it has been growing organically and reach over 80k users.
When we launched, what our users like most about that tool is the ability to write simple DSL language and get the chart visualized. Then over time, we started to see our users using that DSL language to document their internal database structure (without the necessary need to visualize it). They were using it as a database documentation/definition language.
Realized this is something we can add more value to the community, DBML was then born as a simple language to help you design, document and communicate your database structure with other developers. DBML is also open
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-sourced and would welcome contributions [2].
Basically with DBML you can:
- Have a simple db.dbml file to document your database schemas, with proper context and descriptions
- Your dbml file becomes the central source of truth of your database definition
- Using simple CLI command to generate SQL creation file from DBML
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18066881
[2] http://github.com/holistics/dbml