Orange ORM is an object-relational mapper for JavaScript and TypeScript applications.
It runs on Node.js, Bun and Deno, with support for CommonJS and ECMAScript modules.
The software offers a strongly typed query API, Active Record operations and relationship mapping without requiring code generation. It works with a broad selection of relational databases and provides Express and Hono adapters for securely accessing data from browser applications.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Offers expressive, strongly typed filtering, querying and data manipulation.
- Implements the Active Record pattern for retrieving and modifying rows.
- Provides TypeScript IntelliSense without generating model code.
- Supports JavaScript and TypeScript with CommonJS and ECMAScript modules.
- Maps one-to-one, one-to-many and reference relationships between tables.
- Supports PostgreSQL, PGlite, MySQL, MariaDB, SQLite and Microsoft SQL Server.
- Also works with Oracle Database, SAP ASE and Cloudflare D1.
- Runs on Node.js, Bun and Deno, with selected Cloudflare and browser support.
- Provides transactions with automatic rollback when an operation fails.
- Supports row locking with select-for-update and skip-locked operations.
- Includes Express and Hono adapters for browser-based database access.
- Allows inserts, updates and deletions to be persisted with saveChanges().
Website: github.com/alfateam/orange-orm
Support:
Developer: Lars-Erik Roald
License: ISC License
Orange ORM is written in JavaScript. Learn JavaScript with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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