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Overview
GORM is an ORM library for Go. It provides associations, hooks, eager loading, transactions, batch operations, a SQL builder, auto migration, logging, and a plugin API for model-oriented access to relational databases.
Features and best fit
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Key features
Build model-oriented CRUD with associations, preload, and hooks
Has One, Has Many, Belongs To, Many To Many, Preload/Joins eager loading, and lifecycle hooks can organize data access around application models.
Sources: [2]
Keep transactions, batches, SQL building, and auto migration in the same data layer
GORM supports nested transactions, savepoints, batch inserts, FindInBatches, named arguments, upsert, locking, SQL expressions, and Auto Migration for schema workflows.
Sources: [2]
Best fit
Fits Go backends with substantial CRUD and relationship-heavy data models
It is useful when business applications or APIs want common mapping, associations, transactions, and query composition while retaining an escape hatch to explicit SQL expressions.
Sources: [2]
Before adoption
v1.31.2 declares Go 1.18; regression-test migrations and connection lifecycle
The v1.31.2 go.mod declares Go 1.18. The release fixes row cleanup on panic, connection cleanup after failed ping, batch-create panics, and migrator edge cases, so upgrades should exercise transactions, connection leaks, migrations, and batch paths.
Official sources
- [1]go-gorm/gorm — GitHub repository(2026-10-06)
- [2]GORM v1.31.2 — README(2026-10-06)
- [3]GORM v1.31.2 — go.mod(2026-10-06)
- [4]GORM v1.31.2 release(2026-10-06)
- [5]GORM MIT license(2026-10-06)
Supplemental curator note
GORM covers CRUD, associations, transactions, and SQL building in one ORM. Treat Auto Migration as part of an explicit schema-change policy and review generated SQL and database-driver behavior before production rollouts.
Try it in 3 steps
- 1
Get the source
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/go-gorm/gorm.git - 2
Enter the repository
cd gorm - 3
Check the official steps
Continue with the commands in the README Installation, Quick Start, or Getting Started section.
find . -maxdepth 1 -iname 'README*' -exec sed -n '1,220p' {} \; -quit
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