Features Summary

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Summary List

The following list fastly summarizes all the TinyORM features.

• simple database connections management 🧬
  • database manager that helps with the database connections management
  • Orm::DB facade class for nicer and shorter syntax
  • MySQL, MariaDB, SQLite, and PostgreSQL support for all features 💎
  • multi-threading support 👀
  • SSL connections support 🔒
• impressive query builder 🔧
  • allows passing sub-queries and raw expressions practically everywhere, to column names, values, and to every SQL clause as select, where, joins, group by, having, order by 🔥
  • a logical grouping that offers to wrap logical groups in parenthesis
  • chunked results for lower memory footprint ✨
  • raw methods for all SQL clauses
  • all join types (left, right, cross, inner) and also join where clause support 🫤
  • aggregate methods min, max, sum, increment, decrement, ...
  • whereExists and exists methods for an existence queries
  • transactions and pessimistic locking 🔒
  • of course, insert, update, and delete SQL clauses support
  • correct QDateTime time zone using the qt_timezone connection configuration option 📅 (returned QDateTime instances will have the correct time zone, and also works for an ORM)
    • this feature allows you to set up the database server time zone to the UTC and all returned QDateTime instances will have the correct UTC time zone
• clever ORM with all relation types support 🎉
  • one-to-one, one-to-many, and many-to-many relation types (also inverse relationships) 🧨
  • eager and lazy loading with custom select and constraints 🚀
  • fluent ModelsCollection that expose a variety of map / reduce operations that may be chained using an intuitive interface ✨
  • all query builder methods are proxied from the model instances and also from the relation instances back to the query builder 🤯 (everything that can be called on the query builder can also be called on the model and relation instances)
  • clean active record pattern
  • advanced features like timestamps, touching parent timestamps, soft deleting, default models, default model attributes, and attribute casting 🤓
  • querying relationships existence/absence using the has, whereHas, and hasNested methods (using dot notation for selecting nested relationships users.posts.comments)
  • serializing models and collection of models including all nested relations to JSON and converting to vectors and maps 🪡
    • supports controlling a custom date format during serialization
    • supports hiding and appending attributes
• compiled database migrations and seeders 🕺
  • create, update, drop, and rename database tables
  • create, drop, and rename table columns
  • extensive schema builder that allows creating of all possible column types
  • terser syntax for creating foreign keys and foreign key constraints
  • supports creating, and dropping column indexes (primary, unique, fulltext, spatial)
• the tom console application with tab completion for all shells (pwsh, bash, zsh) 🥳
  • scaffolding of models, migrations, and seeders
  • impressive models scaffolding, every feature that is supported by models can be generated using the tom make:model cli command
• a huge amount of code is unit tested, currently 3269 unit tests 🤯
• C++20 only, with all the latest features used like concepts/constraints, ranges, smart pointers (no new keyword in the whole code 😎), folding expressions
• qmake and CMake build systems support
  • CMake FetchContent module support 🤙
• vcpkg support (also the vcpkg port, currently not committed to the vcpkg repository ☹️)
• it's really fast, you can run 1000 complex queries in 500ms (heavily DB dependant, the PostgreSQL is by far the fastest) ⌚
• extensive documentation 📃
• ...

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Tom console application

Passed all unit tests 🥳

TinyOrmPlayground

The TinyOrmPlayground project is my personal project where I have tested all the TinyORM database queries in the early development phases, currently, it executes ~1600 database queries across the whole TinyORM framework. Every query has a nice title header, is logged to the console, and is counted and measured (elapsed time). Every query also runs on all supported databases.

The TinyOrmPlayground project can be compiled in a single-threaded or multi-threaded mode. In the multi-threaded mode, every database connection runs in its own thread. At the end of every database connection is logged a connection summary and before an exit is logged the application summary. Whole TinyOrmPlayground application is configurable through the src/configuration.hpp class.

TinyOrmPlayground single-threaded

TinyOrmPlayground multi-threaded