diesel-rs/diesel

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14162 stars · 1232 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

Diesel is a safe, extensible ORM and query builder for Rust supporting PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, and SQLite. It leverages Rust's type system to catch incorrect database interactions at compile time while providing zero-cost abstractions for high-performance queries.

Use cases

• query a postgres database from rust without writing raw sql
• build type-safe sql queries in rust
• map database rows to rust structs
• do crud operations with sqlite in a rust app
• avoid runtime sql errors by validating queries at compile time
• write complex sql queries with joins and filters in rust
• manage database migrations for a rust web service

When to choose

• you want compile-time guarantees that your queries match your schema
• you need high-performance database access with zero-cost abstractions in Rust
• you want an ORM that supports PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, and SQLite
• you prefer writing queries in Rust rather than raw SQL strings

When to avoid

• you need async database access out of the box (consider sea-orm or sqlx)
• you want a lightweight raw sql driver without an orm layer
• your project requires a database backend other than postgres, mysql, mariadb, or sqlite
• you need dynamic runtime-defined queries that cannot be checked at compile time

Facets

library · maturity stable

orm database database-driver serialization databases backend web-development developer-tools rust cross-platform query-builder sql postgresql mysql sqlite mariadb compile-time-checked zero-cost-abstractions

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