SeaORM

🐚 An async & dynamic ORM for Rust

SeaORM

SeaORM is a relational ORM to help you build web services in Rust with the familiarity of dynamic languages.

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Getting Started

• Documentation
• Tutorial
• Cookbook

Integration examples:

• Actix v4 Example
• Axum Example
• GraphQL Example
• jsonrpsee Example
• Loco TODO Example / Loco REST Starter
• Poem Example
• Rocket Example / Rocket OpenAPI Example
• Salvo Example
• Tonic Example
• Seaography Example

Features

1. Async

   Relying on SQLx, SeaORM is a new library with async support from day 1.

2. Dynamic

   Built upon SeaQuery, SeaORM allows you to build complex dynamic queries.

3. Service Oriented

   Quickly build services that join, filter, sort and paginate data in REST, GraphQL and gRPC APIs.

4. Production Ready

   SeaORM is feature-rich, well-tested and used in production by companies and startups.

A quick taste of SeaORM

Entity

use sea_orm::entity::prelude::*;

#[derive(Clone, Debug, PartialEq, DeriveEntityModel)]
#[sea_orm(table_name = "cake")]
pub struct Model {
    #[sea_orm(primary_key)]
    pub id: i32,
    pub name: String,
}

#[derive(Copy, Clone, Debug, EnumIter, DeriveRelation)]
pub enum Relation {
    #[sea_orm(has_many = "super::fruit::Entity")]
    Fruit,
}

impl Related<super::fruit::Entity> for Entity {
    fn to() -> RelationDef {
        Relation::Fruit.def()
    }
}

Select

// find all models
let cakes: Vec<cake::Model> = Cake::find().all(db).await?;

// find and filter
let chocolate: Vec<cake::Model> = Cake::find()
    .filter(cake::Column::Name.contains("chocolate"))
    .all(db)
    .await?;

// find one model
let cheese: Option<cake::Model> = Cake::find_by_id(1).one(db).await?;
let cheese: cake::Model = cheese.unwrap();

// find related models (lazy)
let fruits: Vec<fruit::Model> = cheese.find_related(Fruit).all(db).await?;

// find related models (eager)
let cake_with_fruits: Vec<(cake::Model, Vec<fruit::Model>)> =
    Cake::find().find_with_related(Fruit).all(db).await?;

Insert

let apple = fruit::ActiveModel {
    name: Set("Apple".to_owned()),
    ..Default::default() // no need to set primary key
};

let pear = fruit::ActiveModel {
    name: Set("Pear".to_owned()),
    ..Default::default()
};

// insert one
let pear = pear.insert(db).await?;

// insert many
Fruit::insert_many([apple, pear]).exec(db).await?;

Update

use sea_orm::sea_query::{Expr, Value};

let pear: Option<fruit::Model> = Fruit::find_by_id(1).one(db).await?;
let mut pear: fruit::ActiveModel = pear.unwrap().into();

pear.name = Set("Sweet pear".to_owned());

// update one
let pear: fruit::Model = pear.update(db).await?;

// update many: UPDATE "fruit" SET "cake_id" = NULL WHERE "fruit"."name" LIKE '%Apple%'
Fruit::update_many()
    .col_expr(fruit::Column::CakeId, Expr::value(Value::Int(None)))
    .filter(fruit::Column::Name.contains("Apple"))
    .exec(db)
    .await?;

Save

let banana = fruit::ActiveModel {
    id: NotSet,
    name: Set("Banana".to_owned()),
    ..Default::default()
};

// create, because primary key `id` is `NotSet`
let mut banana = banana.save(db).await?;

banana.name = Set("Banana Mongo".to_owned());

// update, because primary key `id` is `Set`
let banana = banana.save(db).await?;

Delete

// delete one
let orange: Option<fruit::Model> = Fruit::find_by_id(1).one(db).await?;
let orange: fruit::Model = orange.unwrap();
fruit::Entity::delete(orange.into_active_model())
    .exec(db)
    .await?;

// or simply
let orange: Option<fruit::Model> = Fruit::find_by_id(1).one(db).await?;
let orange: fruit::Model = orange.unwrap();
orange.delete(db).await?;

// delete many: DELETE FROM "fruit" WHERE "fruit"."name" LIKE 'Orange'
fruit::Entity::delete_many()
    .filter(fruit::Column::Name.contains("Orange"))
    .exec(db)
    .await?;

🧭 Seaography: instant GraphQL API

Seaography is a GraphQL framework built on top of SeaORM. Seaography allows you to build GraphQL resolvers quickly. With just a few commands, you can launch a GraphQL server from SeaORM entities!

Look at the Seaography Example to learn more.

🖥️ SeaORM Pro: Effortless Admin Panel

SeaORM Pro is an admin panel solution allowing you to quickly and easily launch an admin panel for your application - frontend development skills not required, but certainly nice to have!

Features:

• Full CRUD
• Built on React + GraphQL
• Built-in GraphQL resolver
• Customize the UI with simple TOML

Learn More

• Example Repo
• Getting Started with Loco
• Getting Started with Axum

Releases

SeaORM 1.0 is a stable release. The 1.x version will be updated until at least October 2025, and we'll decide whether to release a 2.0 version or extend the 1.x life cycle.

It doesn't mean that SeaORM is 'done', we've designed an architecture to allow us to deliver new features without major breaking changes. In fact, more features are coming!

• Change Log

Who's using SeaORM?

Here is a short list of awesome open source software built with SeaORM. Full list here. Feel free to submit yours!

Project	GitHub	Tagline
Zed		A high-performance, multiplayer code editor
OpenObserve		Open-source observability platform
RisingWave		Stream processing and management platform
LLDAP		A light LDAP server for user management
Warpgate		Smart SSH bastion that works with any SSH client
Svix		The enterprise ready webhooks service
Ryot		The only self hosted tracker you will ever need
Lapdev		Self-hosted remote development enviroment
System Initiative		DevOps Automation Platform
OctoBase		A light-weight, scalable, offline collaborative data backend

License

Licensed under either of

• Apache License, Version 2.0 (LICENSE-APACHE or http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0)
• MIT license (LICENSE-MIT or http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)

at your option.

Contribution

Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted for inclusion in the work by you, as defined in the Apache-2.0 license, shall be dual licensed as above, without any additional terms or conditions.

We invite you to participate, contribute and together help build Rust's future.

A big shout out to our contributors!

Sponsorship

SeaQL.org is an independent open-source organization run by passionate developers. If you enjoy using our libraries, please star and share our repositories. If you feel generous, a small donation via GitHub Sponsor will be greatly appreciated, and goes a long way towards sustaining the organization.

Silver Sponsors

We’re immensely grateful to our sponsors: Digital Ocean, for sponsoring our servers. And JetBrains, for sponsoring our IDE.

Mascot

A friend of Ferris, Terres the hermit crab is the official mascot of SeaORM. His hobby is collecting shells.