NOTE:

• This library is not yet complete. It has been published to Cargo.io at this point as a personal exercise in learning how to use Cargo and is not yet complete.

Rusty Anchor

A generic anchor-style, bitemporal database helper for SQLite written in Rust.

This crate is an experiment in providing reusable building blocks for modeling anchors, attributes, and ties using an append-only, bitemporal schema inspired by anchor modeling.

It's designed to be used as a library embedded inside other Rust projects such as scrapers or data stores to simplify some of the repetition required when anchor modeling and linking up various attribute tables.

Features

• SQLite-backed storage (via rusqlite)
• Anchor-style modeling:
  • Anchors (entities)
  • Attributes (time-varying facts)
  • Ties (relationships between anchors)
• Attribute level history
• Cardinality support (One vs Many)
• Explicit schema definitions (define once, insert many)
• Designed for future bitemporal extensions
• No domain assumptions

Non-Goals

• NOT an ORM.

Notice

I've been working on this as a personal learning project, to explore the limitations of bitemporality, 6th normal form, and SQLte, and it is not yet intended for production use by others.

How to use

• TBD