yahoo/elide

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1032 stars · 238 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

Elide is a Java library that generates model-driven JSON-API and GraphQL web services from JPA-annotated data models with minimal effort. It provides declarative security permissions, atomic multi-object mutations, filtering/sorting/pagination, and a semantic layer for analytic queries.

Use cases

• expose JPA entities as a JSON-API or GraphQL CRUD service
• build a GraphQL API from Java data models without writing resolvers
• add declarative field- and entity-level access control to an API
• serve analytic aggregate queries over a semantic model layer
• perform atomic multi-object create/update/delete in one request
• visualize and explore data with Yavin dashboards over Elide APIs

When to choose

• you have JPA/Hibernate models and want a full CRUD or GraphQL API quickly
• you need fine-grained declarative permissions on API fields and entities
• you want built-in filtering, sorting, pagination, and subscriptions
• you're building analytics/reporting APIs with a semantic layer

When to avoid

• you're not on the JVM or don't use JPA/Hibernate
• you need full manual control over API endpoints and resolvers
• your data layer isn't relational or JPA-compatible
• you need a lightweight REST framework without model-driven conventions

Facets

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api-framework graphql orm web-framework authorization data-visualization web-development backend apis databases analytics jvm self-hosted json-api jpa hibernate spring-boot crud-api semantic-layer openapi graphql-federation web-server

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