dbdaddy

DBDaddy [draft]

A simple database management CLI tool.

safe for production use when version = v1.0.0

stable enough for development DB use, NOW.

Installation

only for linux or unix-based OS.

no windows.

why windows?

dont use windows.

curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/fossMeDaddy/dbdaddy/main/installer/install.sh | bash

having doubts about installing a random binary from the internet? here's a remark from the author that might help:

i am a recovering dev (recovering from js fatigue), used to write js for a living (soydev), barely capable of writing software that works, you really think I can bypass your anti-virus, steal your information AND get away with it?

trust me bro.

Usage Instructions

dbdaddy --help

Note from the author

Prisma is great from devex pov but applications dont run on developers, they run on a machine.

I thought, well there has to be an alternative to it, you can't just recommend prisma to your CTO right? how will you pitch it?

sorry but i am a full-stack (MERN with frontend specialisation) developer and i don't know how to write SQL & definitely don't wanna learn it. Anyway, here's an automagic migrations gen tool & with it comes a bloated ORM architecture deal with it.

jokes aside, some of the performance-related concerns were also raised by codedamn (company) in this article.

this problem arises when you create leaky abstractions, over things that shouldn't have been abstracted in the first place.

what do you need when working with databases?

1. a tool that gives you a good enough interface to do backups, migrations, custom one-off queries, etc. on the databases
2. efficient SQL to query the data
3. compile-time guard-rails when writing SQL

here's how you can do it WITHOUT AN ORM:

1. DBDaddy aka this tool
2. get good at SQL, bruh
3. amazing tools like sqlc for type-safe SQL queries

DBDaddy is not just a tool, it's an opinion.

Features

supported databases:

• Postgres
• MySQL
• SQlite

Here are some features the CLI covers (PG only, for now)

• using databases on a server like branches (like git but inferior)
• inspecting database/table schema
• deleting databases
• dumping databases
• restoring databases
• executing raw SQL queries & exporting queries as formatted readable text & CSV
• SQL migration file generation between schema changes

In Progress:

• project structure & schema definition
• hybrid migrations allowing you to interleave your own sql between autogenerated sql

Planned:

• studio UI for my fellow soydevs, because these days nobody with a $1000 clerk subscription seems to use a CLI for more than 10s
• db visualize & diagram, aim is to be similar to dbdiagram.io in UI but use SQL for schema definition
• testing suite, everyday i push to main, i push with fear, i dont want fear

Migrations [unstable]

it's actually simpler than most people would think... so simple in fact that I would NOT recommend it for production use (for now).

indexes, triggers & custom types are not supported.

constraints, columns, tables & views are diffed and tracked for changes but there is no modification support as of now for any of them, which means that, let's say if you make a field nullable in SQL, this tool will generate migrations to remove the column from your database & then re-create it with SQL column definition such that the field is now nullable. DATA WILL BE LOST.