GORM
The fantastic ORM library for Golang, aims to be developer friendly (by go-gorm)
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
GORM
Posts with mentions or reviews of GORM.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2025-01-03.
- 🏷️ Sintaxe Alternativa em Go: Uma Leve Introdução às Struct Field Tags
-
Top 5 Go Libraries Every Backend Developer Should Know
2. GORM
-
How to use migrations with Golang
Go doesn't support migrations natively for that propuso we can use the popular golang-migrate package also if you use an ORM like GORM you can use it for that.
-
Toasty, an Async ORM for Rust
I never understood why people are so stubborn about hating on orm.
For example I'm familiar with https://gorm.io and it does save me a lot of time and useless boilerplate.
And guess what, if I ever need to make a complex query, I also happen to know SQL, and I'm just going to make a "raw" query https://gorm.io/docs/sql_builder.html#Raw-SQL and be done with it.
It's not all that hard.
-
Building a RESTful API with Go Fiber: An Express-Inspired Boilerplate
SQL database: PostgreSQL Object Relation Mapping using Gorm
-
Store IoT device data
The previous post demonstrated receiving the raw data and unmarshalling it into a struct that was already annotated with gorm tags. Gorm is a popular ORM for Go. If you are not familiar with it, you can for more information here.
-
GORM, PostgreSQL & Atlas
GORM is a, quite conveniently named, ORM for GO
-
Scaling Backend to 1M requests with just 2GB ram ⚡️
Written in GIN framework and uses GORM as ORM.
-
How to handle migrations in Golang
There are ORMs like gorm that supports some kind of documentation with files, but they mainly focus on converting the database to "things" in the code to be used by the ORM, and not as documentation only/documentation-first.
-
Go ORMs Compared
GORM is a comprehensive ORM tool in Go, offering a code-first approach which allows defining database schemas using struct tags in Go. It's known for its developer-friendly nature, making it suitable for both beginners and experienced users. GORM supports a variety of SQL databases like MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQLite. It's designed to be flexible, allowing developers to drop down to raw SQL when necessary. However, it's important to be cautious about its performance implications in large-scale applications.
Xorm
Posts with mentions or reviews of Xorm.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects.
We haven't tracked posts mentioning Xorm yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing GORM and Xorm you can also consider the following projects:
pgx - PostgreSQL driver and toolkit for Go
ent - An entity framework for Go
bun - SQL-first Golang ORM
beego orm
upper.io/db - Data Access Layer (DAL) for PostgreSQL, CockroachDB, MySQL, SQLite and MongoDB with ORM-like features.