In the beginning of August, the first major version of SeaORM was released, being the project of an open-source relational ORM (Object-Relation Mapping) intended to provide assistance in creating Rust-based web services through the use of dynamic languages. The source code of the project is written on Rust and is to be found on GitHub under MIT and Apache licenses. The project supports MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, SQLite и MSSQL databases.
SeaORM 0.2. was released three years ago. Many innovations have been added to SeaORM 1.0, including:
- Refreshed migration schema definition;
- Reworked SQLite Type Mappings;
- Support for alternative registers for Entity Model and Active Enum.
The developers plan to support 1.x for at least a year, after which they will decide whether to release 2.0 or to continue 1.x. They are planning to many more features to upcoming versions o SeaORM 1.x, including:
- Transition to SQLx 0.8;
- GraphQL support via Seaography;
- Administrator panel;
- Data science/analytics;
- Scalability features.
