What is GORM?
It is a fantastic ORM library for Golang, aims to be developer friendly. It is an ORM library for dealing with relational databases. This library is developed on top of database/sql package.
GORM is a tool in the Object Relational Mapper (ORM) category of a tech stack.
GORM is an open source tool with 643 GitHub stars and 195 GitHub forks. Here’s a link to GORM's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses GORM?
Companies
16 companies reportedly use GORM in their tech stacks, including SWORD Health, Buzzvil, and Finema.
Developers
120 developers on StackShare have stated that they use GORM.
GORM Integrations
GORM's Features
- Full-Featured ORM
- Associations (has one, has many, belongs to, many to many, polymorphism, single-table inheritance)
- Hooks (before/after create/save/update/delete/find)
- Eager loading with Preload, Joins
- Transactions, Nested Transactions, Save Point, RollbackTo to Saved Point
- Context, Prepared Statment Mode, DryRun Mode
- Batch Insert, FindInBatches, Find/Create with Map, CRUD with SQL Expr and Context Valuer
- SQL Builder, Upsert, Locking, Optimizer/Index/Comment Hints, Named Argument, SubQuery
- Composite Primary Key, Indexes, Constraints
- Auto Migrations
- Logger
- Extendable, flexible plugin API
GORM Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to GORM?
Beego
It is a RESTful HTTP framework for the rapid development of Go applications including APIs, web apps and backend services with integrated Go specific features such as interfaces and struct embedding.
Hibernate
Hibernate is a suite of open source projects around domain models. The flagship project is Hibernate ORM, the Object Relational Mapper.
SQLAlchemy
SQLAlchemy is the Python SQL toolkit and Object Relational Mapper that gives application developers the full power and flexibility of SQL.
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.
