holistics/dbml

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DBML (Database Markup Language) is a simple, human-readable DSL for defining and documenting database structures, database-agnostic in design. It ships as a JavaScript core library (@dbml/core) and CLI (@dbml/cli), with companion tools dbdiagram.io for visualization and dbdocs.io for documentation.

Use cases

• define database schemas in a readable DSL
• document database structures
• convert DBML to SQL DDL for different databases
• visualize database schema as ER diagrams
• generate database documentation from schema files

When to choose

• you want a database-agnostic, human-readable schema definition language
• you need to document or visualize database structures quickly
• you want to generate SQL for multiple database engines from one schema source

When to avoid

• you need full DBMS-specific feature coverage like stored procedures or triggers
• you want migrations/versioning tooling rather than schema definition
• your workflow is already covered by ORM schema definitions

Facets

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parser documentation developer-tools databases developer-tools documentation cli cross-platform dsl database-schema schema-definition dbdiagram erd nodejs

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