GORM VS SQLBoiler

Hello, I want to communicate with a database in my go API. My API is for a website that allows you to track finances and budgets, so the reason I need a database is to store the user's expenses and allow them to search and find each one and which one is costing them the most. I also am going to implement login soon, but I don't think that matters for now. I'm now stuck on how to communicate with my database (Postgres). Should I go with an ORM like gorm, database/sql package, sqlx, or any others? Advice is appreciated

For more information on Gorm's operation of MySQL, please refer to Gorm

To access PlanetScale, we can use ORM from Go called Gorm, and since the PlanetScale database is built on top Vitess (MySQL), install the MySQL driver as well.

Just my opinion, so it it for what it’s worth to you, but I haven’t been especially impressed with the ORM landscape in Go. I have tinkered with a few ORMs - I gave gorm a serious whirl a few months ago, but ended up ditching it in less than a month. If time is on your side, I’d strongly encourage you to experiment with what the standard library’s database/sql package has to offer.

If it is to low-level for your liking maybe take a look at sqlx or even gorm.

Sigh... If you're using gorm V2, you need to pass a dialector to gorm.Open as the first parameter. See the V2 example here: https://github.com/go-gorm/gorm/issues/3565

Framework - Gin ORM - Gorm

SQL code generator (aka inspect a database or SQL files to generate data models). You have the option of using something like volatiletech/sqlboiler which looks at the a physical database and generates code based on the schema. Or SQLC which is an amazing and fast project.

After trying a half dozen migration engines for NodeJS, I was pleased to see Prisma and its excellent documentation. As a golang developer I am partial to SQLBoiler and its database-first approach, though perhaps this is a condition of our community where we want all the knobs. Prisma was code-first but still gave me enough control to feel confident.

I use sqlboiler which generates an ORM from your database, and sql-migrate which is a tool for managing SQL migrations. Although you have to write your migrations in SQL, which IMHO is a plus.

FWIW, the other posts point to https://gobuffalo.io/ and https://github.com/volatiletech/sqlboiler as possibilities.

My current favourite is: sqlboiler https://github.com/volatiletech/sqlboiler

I love SQL Boiler, which generates type-safe code for you from the database schema.

SQLBoiler but currently building an evolved version with generics and more flexibility.

SQLBoiler it's fast and generates type-safe compile-able code.

Take a look at sqlboiler. It's an ORM that generates the database models for you based on the SQL schema.

I like sqlboiler. Generate a Go ORM based on your DB schema.