What is ent?
It is a simple, yet powerful entity framework for Go, that makes it easy to build and maintain applications with large data-models.
ent is a tool in the Object Relational Mapper (ORM) category of a tech stack.
ent is an open source tool with GitHub stars and GitHub forks. Here’s a link to ent's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses ent?
Companies
6 companies reportedly use ent in their tech stacks, including yaesu, Ariga, and Production Rework.
Developers
118 developers on StackShare have stated that they use ent.
ent Integrations
MySQL, PostgreSQL, GraphQL, Golang, and SQLite are some of the popular tools that integrate with ent. Here's a list of all 6 tools that integrate with ent.
ent's Features
- Easily model database schema as a graph structure
- Define schema as a programmatic Go code
- Static typing based on code generation
- Database queries and graph traversals are easy to write
- Simple to extend and customize using Go templates
ent Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to ent?
MySQL
The MySQL software delivers a very fast, multi-threaded, multi-user, and robust SQL (Structured Query Language) database server. MySQL Server is intended for mission-critical, heavy-load production systems as well as for embedding into mass-deployed software.
PostgreSQL
PostgreSQL is an advanced object-relational database management system
that supports an extended subset of the SQL standard, including
transactions, foreign keys, subqueries, triggers, user-defined types
and functions.
MongoDB
MongoDB stores data in JSON-like documents that can vary in structure, offering a dynamic, flexible schema. MongoDB was also designed for high availability and scalability, with built-in replication and auto-sharding.
Redis
Redis is an open source (BSD licensed), in-memory data structure store, used as a database, cache, and message broker. Redis provides data structures such as strings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets with range queries, bitmaps, hyperloglogs, geospatial indexes, and streams.
Amazon S3
Amazon Simple Storage Service provides a fully redundant data storage infrastructure for storing and retrieving any amount of data, at any time, from anywhere on the web