elixir-ecto/ecto

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

Ecto is a toolkit for data mapping and language-integrated queries in Elixir, providing schemas, changesets, and a composable query DSL. It is commonly paired with ecto_sql to work with databases like PostgreSQL and MySQL.

Use cases

• map database rows to elixir structs
• write type-safe database queries in elixir
• validate and cast form data with changesets
• build a phoenix web app with database persistence
• query postgresql from elixir
• define database schemas in elixir

When to choose

• you are building an Elixir application that needs database access or data validation
• you want a composable, functional query DSL instead of raw SQL strings
• you need to map external data sources into validated Elixir structs

When to avoid

• your project is not written in Elixir or on the Erlang VM
• you need an ORM with active-record-style associations and migrations out of the box without the ecto_sql companion package
• you prefer raw SQL or a lightweight query builder for simple scripts

Facets

library · maturity stable

orm database database-driver serialization type-system databases backend web-development developer-tools elixir jvm cross-platform data-mapping query-dsl elixir changesets sql-adapters schema-validation

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