xDBML Ecosystem

Tools, libraries, and integrations built around the xDBML specification. This page is community-maintained -- add yours by opening a pull request that edits this file.

Parsers and grammars

No published parsers yet. The reference ANTLR4 grammar is documented in the Grammar section. Implementations in TypeScript, Python, Java, Go, and Rust are anticipated and welcome.

Generators

Tools that consume xDBML and produce target-format output (DDL, schema documents, validators):

No published generators yet. Anticipated targets include:

• Oracle, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, Snowflake DDL
• MongoDB collection validators ($jsonSchema)
• Avro schema files
• Parquet schema files
• JSON Schema documents
• OpenAPI components.schemas definitions
• Neo4j / Cypher schema declarations
• ODCS data contract schema sections

Importers

Tools that consume existing schemas (DDL, JSON Schema, Avro, etc.) and produce xDBML:

No published importers yet.

Editors and IDE support

Plugins and language-server implementations for editing xDBML in popular tools:

No published editor integrations yet. VS Code, JetBrains IDEs, and Vim/Neovim syntax-highlighting contributions are particularly welcome.

Modeling tools

Visual and interactive tools that consume or produce xDBML:

• Hackolade Studio -- the steward of the xDBML specification; will ship xDBML import/export in a forthcoming release

Adjacent-standard bridges

Integration tooling that bridges xDBML to adjacent standards:

No published bridges yet. Particularly desired:

• xDBML ↔ ODCS -- bidirectional bridge to the Open Data Contract Standard
• xDBML ↔ Apache Ossie -- generation of Ossie dataset definitions (source, keys, fields, relationships, synonyms) from xDBML entities
• xDBML ↔ LinkML -- translation between LinkML schemas and xDBML models, for projects that publish a vocabulary and also design the databases behind it
• xDBML ↔ dbt -- generation of dbt model schema.yml from xDBML
• xDBML ↔ Confluent Schema Registry -- Avro round-trip via the Confluent Schema Registry

Adding your project

To add a project to this page:

1. Verify the project is publicly available with an open-source license (preferably Apache 2.0, MIT, BSD, or similar permissive license)
2. Open a pull request editing this file under the appropriate section
3. Include: project name (with link), one-sentence description, license, and maintainer (organization or individual)
4. If the project supports a partial subset of xDBML v0.1, note which constructs are supported

The xDBML maintainers will review for accuracy and license verification, then merge. There is no formal certification -- listing on this page indicates community awareness of the project, not endorsement.