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SQLAlchemy vs MikroORM: What are the differences?

What is SQLAlchemy? The Python SQL Toolkit and Object Relational Mapper. SQLAlchemy is the Python SQL toolkit and Object Relational Mapper that gives application developers the full power and flexibility of SQL.

What is MikroORM? TypeScript ORM for Node.js based on Data Mapper, Unit of Work and Identity Map patterns. TypeScript ORM for Node.js based on Data Mapper, Unit of Work and Identity Map patterns. Supports MongoDB, MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL and SQLite databases.

SQLAlchemy and MikroORM can be primarily classified as "Object Relational Mapper (ORM)" tools.

SQLAlchemy and MikroORM are both open source tools. It seems that SQLAlchemy with 3.4K GitHub stars and 892 forks on GitHub has more adoption than MikroORM with 705 GitHub stars and 40 GitHub forks.

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    Typescript
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    Supports both SQL and NoSQL
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    Powered by Unit of Work and Identity Map
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    Allows multiple ways to define entities
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    DRY Entities
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    Implicit Transactions
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    SQL layer built on top of Knex
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    EntityGenerator to reverse engineer existing database
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    Open Source

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    What is MikroORM?

    TypeScript ORM for Node.js based on Data Mapper, Unit of Work and Identity Map patterns. Supports MongoDB, MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL and SQLite databases.

    What is SQLAlchemy?

    SQLAlchemy is the Python SQL toolkit and Object Relational Mapper that gives application developers the full power and flexibility of SQL.

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    What are some alternatives to MikroORM and SQLAlchemy?
    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
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