Governed Information Model (GIM) Core

governed-im (GIM) is a Deno Typescript module which helps define entities, attributes, values, graphs and related objects for generation of SQL and other storage engine artifacts.

The GIM module is designed to specify, in a storage-engine and database agnostic approach, complex validatable polyglot capable data structures. It's based on a "specify once, generate many" design philosophy.

It supports:

• Relational Database Management Systems (RDBMs like SQLite, PostgreSQL, and MySQL)
• NoSQL Storage Engines (like MongoDB, DynamoDB, etc.)

We want to be able to generate:

• Relational Schemas (e.g. SQLite, PostgreSQL)
• Polyglot data structure code (e.g. Typescript classes, Golang interfaces, Java classes)
• Polyglot services layers (e.g. GraphQL, React Admin Data Providers)
• ERDs and Schema documentation
• TypeGraphQL, TypeORM
• Almost any kind of code that needs complex data structures with validation

Types of generators:

• Destructive SQL (DDL, data deletions, etc.)
• Idempotent SQL (upserts, views, stored procedures, etc.)

Structure

This is a monorepo with three related libraries that work together but are isolated for code management purposes:

• core
• transform
• typical