Open General Information Network, hereafter referred to as OpenGIN, is an open-source platform designed to build a time-aware digital twin of an ecosystem by defining its entities, relationships, and data according to a specification. OpenGIN core supports a wide variety of data formats to provide efficient querying to simulate the digital twin. Underneath, OpenGIN uses a polyglot database definition which supports representing the changes of an ecosystem through time-travelling.
See OpenGIN in action: OpenGINXplore is a reference application built with OpenGIN, designed to explore Sri Lankan government data.
| Feature | Description |
|---|---|
| Temporal, Entity-Centric Model | Models all data as Entities with time-aware values, preserving historical context and enabling timeline-based analysis. |
| Intent-Aware Data Ingestion | Captures semantic intent, metadata, and temporal information at ingestion time to improve discovery and retrieval. |
| Polyglot Storage Abstraction | Seamlessly supports graph, document, and tabular storage while abstracting underlying storage complexity. |
| Advanced Discovery & Querying | Enables complex, cross-dataset queries that respect relationships, hierarchies, and time. |
| Ecosystem & Organizational Modeling | Supports modeling governments, organizations, businesses, and ecosystems as interconnected, evolving systems. |
| Historical & Structural Analysis | Allows users to explore how entities and relationships change over time within and across systems. |
| Graph Capabilities | Powerful relationship traversal and querying. |
| Scalability | Microservices architecture allows independent scaling of components. |
| Strict Contracts | Uses Protobuf for internal communication and OpenAPI for external REST APIs. |
Please see our Getting Started Guide.
Please see our Contributing.
Please see our Code of Conduct.
Please see our Security Policy.
This project is licensed under the Apache License 2.0 - see the LICENSE file for details.