@dbml/core
Refer to @dbml/core for the complete API reference.
Installation
npm install @dbml/core
# or if you're using yarn
yarn add @dbml/core
SQL Parser Feature Support
This section documents the SQL parsing capabilities for each supported database when importing SQL to DBML.
For more detailed documentation on each SQL parser, see the individual parser READMEs:
Support Legend
| Symbol | Meaning |
| ✓ | Fully supported and correctly parsed |
| ◐ | Valid SQL that is parsed, but some options/clauses are ignored |
| ✗ | Valid SQL syntax, but the parser fails to generate output |
| — | Syntax not valid for this database |
CREATE TABLE
| Feature | PostgreSQL | MySQL | MSSQL | Oracle | Snowflake |
| Basic syntax | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Parameterized types (e.g., VARCHAR(255)) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Array types (e.g., INTEGER[]) | ✓ | — | — | — | — |
Enumerated types (ENUM) | ✓ | ✓ | — | — | — |
| Temporary tables | ◐ | ✗ | ✓ | ◐ | ◐ |
CREATE TABLE AS SELECT | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
Table options (ENGINE, TABLESPACE, etc.) | ◐ | ◐ | ◐ | ◐ | ◐ |
Other column properties (COLLATE, etc.) | ◐ | ✗ | ◐ | ◐ | ◐ |
| Generated/Computed columns | ◐ | ◐ | ◐ | ◐ | ◐ |
Notes:
- MSSQL:
- Temporary tables use
# prefix (local) and ## prefix (global)
- Square bracket identifiers (
[identifier]) are supported
PRIMARY KEY
| Feature | PostgreSQL | MySQL | MSSQL | Oracle | Snowflake |
| Column-level | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Table-level | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Multi-column | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Explicitly named (CONSTRAINT name) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| CLUSTERED/NONCLUSTERED | — | — | ◐ | — | — |
FOREIGN KEY
| Feature | PostgreSQL | MySQL | MSSQL | Oracle | Snowflake |
Column-level (REFERENCES) | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ |
| Table-level | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ |
| Multi-column | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ |
Explicitly named (CONSTRAINT name) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ |
ON UPDATE action | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | — | ✗ |
ON DELETE action | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ |
Notes:
- MSSQL: Column-level
FOREIGN KEY has a known bug - use table-level syntax instead
- Snowflake: All
FOREIGN KEY definitions have a known bug producing undefined errors
UNIQUE
| Feature | PostgreSQL | MySQL | MSSQL | Oracle | Snowflake |
| Column-level | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Table-level | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Multi-column | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Explicitly named (CONSTRAINT name) | ✓ | ✓ | ◐ | ✓ | ◐ |
UNIQUE KEY/UNIQUE INDEX syntax | — | ✓ | — | — | — |
CHECK
| Feature | PostgreSQL | MySQL | MSSQL | Oracle | Snowflake |
| Column-level | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ |
| Table-level | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ |
Explicitly named (CONSTRAINT name) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ |
DEFAULT
| Feature | PostgreSQL | MySQL | MSSQL | Oracle | Snowflake |
| Column-level | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Function as default | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Explicitly named (CONSTRAINT name) | — | — | ◐ | — | ◐ |
NOT NULL
| Feature | PostgreSQL | MySQL | MSSQL | Oracle | Snowflake |
Column-level NOT NULL | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Explicit column-level NULL | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Auto-Increment Columns
| Feature | PostgreSQL | MySQL | MSSQL | Oracle | Snowflake |
SERIAL (pseudo-type) | ✓ | — | — | — | — |
BIGSERIAL (pseudo-type) | ✓ | — | — | — | — |
AUTO_INCREMENT (column attribute) | — | ✓ | — | — | — |
IDENTITY(seed, increment) (column property) | — | — | ✓ | — | ✓ |
GENERATED AS IDENTITY (column property) | ✓ | — | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ |
GENERATED ALWAYS AS IDENTITY | ✓ | — | — | ✓ | — |
GENERATED BY DEFAULT AS IDENTITY | ✓ | — | — | ✓ | — |
Inline Indexes
| Feature | PostgreSQL | MySQL | MSSQL | Oracle | Snowflake |
| Column-level indexes | — | ✗ | — | — | — |
Table-level INDEX/KEY | — | ✓ | — | ✓ | — |
| Named indexes | — | ✓ | — | ✓ | — |
| Multi-column indexes | — | ✓ | — | ✓ | — |
| USING BTREE/HASH | — | ✓ | — | — | — |
| FULLTEXT/SPATIAL | — | ◐ | — | — | — |
CREATE INDEX
| Feature | PostgreSQL | MySQL | MSSQL | Oracle | Snowflake |
Basic CREATE INDEX | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | — |
| Multi-column index | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | — |
UNIQUE index | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | — |
| Function-based index | ✓ | ✓ | — | ✓ | — |
| BTREE | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | — | — |
| HASH | ✓ | ✓ | — | — | — |
| GIST | ✓ | — | — | — | — |
| BRIN | ✓ | — | — | — | — |
| GIN | ✓ | — | — | — | — |
Partial/Filtered index (WHERE) | ◐ | ✗ | ◐ | ◐ | — |
| FULLTEXT | — | ◐ | ✗ | — | — |
| SPATIAL | — | ◐ | ✗ | — | — |
Notes:
- MSSQL: Function-based indexes use computed columns instead
INSERT Statements
| Feature | PostgreSQL | MySQL | MSSQL | Oracle | Snowflake |
Basic INSERT ... VALUES | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ |
Multi-row INSERT | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
INSERT ... SELECT | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
INSERT ... with returned rows (RETURNING, OUTPUT) | ◐ | — | ◐ | ◐ | — |
INSERT ... ON CONFLICT/DUPLICATE KEY | ◐ | ◐ | — | — | — |
Notes:
- Oracle: Multi-row inserts use
INSERT ALL ... SELECT * FROM dual syntax, which is fully supported.
ALTER TABLE
| Feature | PostgreSQL | MySQL | MSSQL | Oracle | Snowflake |
| ADD COLUMN | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| DROP COLUMN | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| ALTER/MODIFY COLUMN | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| RENAME COLUMN | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| ADD CONSTRAINT | | | | | |
- DEFAULT | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ |
- NOT NULL | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ |
- CHECK | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | — |
- UNIQUE | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
- PRIMARY KEY | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ |
- FOREIGN KEY | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| DROP CONSTRAINT | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Feature | PostgreSQL | MySQL | MSSQL | Oracle | Snowflake |
| Table comments | ✓ | ✓ | ◐ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Column comments | ✓ | ✓ | ◐ | ✓ | ✗ |
| Comment syntax | COMMENT ON | Inline COMMENT | sp_addextendedproperty | COMMENT ON | Inline COMMENT |
Notes:
- MSSQL: Comments via
sp_addextendedproperty have unreliable parsing
Other DDL Statements
| Feature | PostgreSQL | MySQL | MSSQL | Oracle | Snowflake |
DROP TABLE | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
DROP INDEX | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | — |
ALTER INDEX | ✗ | — | ✗ | ✗ | — |
CREATE VIEW | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
关于 @dbml/core 的常见问题
@dbml/core 是什么?
TODO: description
如何安装 @dbml/core?
在项目目录运行 npm install @dbml/core,或使用 pnpm add / yarn add / bun add。
@dbml/core 支持 TypeScript 吗?
支持。包内自带 TypeScript 类型声明(package.json 声明了 types 入口),安装后即可获得类型提示,无需再安装 @types 包。
@dbml/core 支持 ESM 还是 CommonJS?
同时提供 ES Module 与 CommonJS 入口,import 和 require() 都可以使用,打包工具会自动选择合适的版本。
@dbml/core 需要什么版本的 Node.js?
package.json 的 engines 字段要求 Node.js >=16。版本不符时 npm 默认只给出警告,开启 engine-strict 后会拒绝安装。
@dbml/core 可以商用吗?
@dbml/core 使用 Apache-2.0 许可。宽松许可:允许商业使用、修改和再分发,并附带明确的专利授权;分发时需保留许可与 NOTICE 文件,修改过的文件要注明改动。以上为概括,不构成法律意见,请以许可原文为准。
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@dbml/core 还在维护吗?
最新版本 12.0.0 发布于 2026/11/09(2 天前);至今共发布 273 个版本,其中过去 12 个月发布了 164 个;首次发布于 2019/08/19。发布频率只是参考信号:功能稳定的工具可能很少需要更新,建议结合源码仓库的 issue 和提交记录判断。