Premix ORM

Premix ORM is a zero-overhead, type-safe ORM for Rust, designed for performance and developer experience.

This crate (premix-orm) is the official facade that re-exports premix-core and premix-macros, providing a unified entry point for your application.

Research Status

This crate is part of a research prototype. APIs may change and production use is not recommended yet.

Requirements

• Rust 1.85+ (edition 2024).
• No nightly toolchain required.

Why use this facade?

• Unified imports: use premix_orm::prelude::*; gets you everything.
• No version mismatch: core and macros versions stay compatible.
• Clean dependencies: only one crate to add to your Cargo.toml.

Installation

Add this to your Cargo.toml:

[dependencies]
premix-orm = "1.0.6-alpha"
sqlx = { version = "0.8", features = ["runtime-tokio", "sqlite"] }
tokio = { version = "1", features = ["full"] }
serde = { version = "1", features = ["derive"] }

Database Features

Enable database features on both premix-orm and sqlx:

premix-orm = { version = "1.0.6-alpha", features = ["postgres"] }
sqlx = { version = "0.8", features = ["runtime-tokio", "sqlite", "postgres"] }

Quick Start

use premix_orm::prelude::*;
use serde::{Deserialize, Serialize};

#[derive(Model, Debug, Serialize, Deserialize)]
pub struct User {
    pub id: i32,
    pub name: String,

    // Soft delete is auto-detected by field name.
    pub deleted_at: Option<String>,
}

#[tokio::main]
async fn main() -> Result<(), Box<dyn std::error::Error>> {
    let pool = Premix::smart_sqlite_pool("sqlite::memory:").await?;

    // Sync schema.
    Premix::sync::<premix_orm::sqlx::Sqlite, User>(&pool).await?;

    // CRUD.
    let mut user = User { id: 0, name: "Alice".to_string(), deleted_at: None };
    user.save(&pool).await?;

    println!("Saved user with ID: {}", user.id);
    Ok(())
}

Features

• Compile-time SQL generation via macros
• Application-level eager loading using batched queries
• Optional soft delete support by deleted_at convention
• SQLite, Postgres, and MySQL via sqlx feature flags

Compatibility

• Requires sqlx with matching database features
• Works with the Tokio runtime

Book

For a longer-form guide, see orm-book/ in this repository.

SQL Transparency

Inspect the SQL generated by the query builder:

let query = User::find_in_pool(&pool).filter_gt("age", 18).limit(10);
println!("{}", query.to_sql());

See the book for more on generated APIs and SQL inspection: orm-book/src/queries.md.

Raw SQL Escape Hatch

Run raw SQL while mapping results to your model:

let users = User::raw_sql("SELECT * FROM users WHERE active = 1")
    .fetch_all(&pool)
    .await?;

License

This project is licensed under the MIT license.