DBML - Database Markup Language

DBML (database markup language) is a simple, readable DSL language designed to define database structures.

For more information, please check out DBML homepage

Benefits

• It is simple, flexible and highly human-readable
• It is database agnostic, focusing on the essential database structure definition without worrying about the detailed syntaxes of each database
• Comes with a free, simple database visualiser at dbdiagram.io
• Also comes with a free database documentation app at dbdocs.io

Example

Example of a database definition of a simple blogging site:

Table users {
    id integer
    username varchar
    role varchar
    created_at timestamp
}

Table posts {
    id integer [primary key]
    title varchar
    body text [note: 'Content of the post']
    user_id integer
    created_at timestamp
}

Ref: posts.user_id > users.id // many-to-one

Community Contributions

• Emacs Mode for DBML (Contributed by ccod)
• Vim Plugin for DBML (Contributed by jidn)
• VSCode Plugin for DBML by duynvu
• Python parser for DBML by Vanderhoof
• FloorPlan: Android's Room to DBML by julioz
• Go parser for DBML by duythinht
• DbmlForDjango: Converter between Django models.py and DBML
• parseServerSchema2dbml: Converter between ParseServer MongoDB _SCHEMA collection and DBML by stepanic
• dbml-renderer: A DBML CLI renderer
• dbml-parser: A DBML parser written on PHP8 by Butschster
• Kacher: Laravel's Database Schemas to DBML by Arsanandha Aphisitworachorch
• d365fo-entity-schema: Generate DBML from Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations
• DB2Code: Generate DBML from Maven
• dbml-java: A DBML parser written on Java 17 by Nils Wende
• SchemaToDbml: A gem that generates DBML from Rails schema.rb by Ricardo Ribeiro
• Snowflake DBML Generator by Ryan Rozich