Those suggestions you got already look good, except I'd add one qualification: Whether you use 'SQL' or 'DBIx' should depend on the implementation. Is the module going to be talking DBI? If so, then I'd recommend the latter, since 'SQL' is (it seems to me) more about the language generically. OTOH, if your module is simply going to translate the info into the corresponding schema SQL and leave the actual db creation to another function, then the former makes more sense.