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# Features Summary
- [Summary List](#summary-list)
- [Showcase Images](#showcase-images)
## Summary List
The following list fastly summarizes all the `TinyORM` features.
- __simple database connections management__ ๐งฌ
- 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 ๐
- multi-threading support ๐
- __SSL__ connections support ๐
- __impressive query builder__ ๐ง
- 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 ๐ฅ
- a logical grouping that offers to wrap logical groups in parenthesis
- chunked results for lower memory footprint โจ
- raw methods for all SQL clauses
- all join types (left, right, cross, inner) and also join where clause support ๐ซค
- aggregate methods min, max, sum, increment, decrement, ...
- whereExists and exists methods for an existence queries
- transactions and pessimistic locking ๐
- of course, insert, update, and delete SQL clauses support
- __correct QDateTime time zone__ using the `qt_timezone` connection configuration option ๐
(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__ ๐
- one-to-one, one-to-many, and many-to-many relation types (also inverse relationships) ๐งจ
- eager and lazy loading with custom select and constraints ๐
- fluent `ModelsCollection` that expose a variety of map / reduce operations that may be chained using an intuitive interface โจ
- all query builder methods are proxied from the model instances and also from the relation instances back to the query builder ๐คฏ (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 ๐ค
- 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 ๐ชก
- supports controlling a custom date format during serialization
- supports hiding and appending attributes
- __compiled database migrations and seeders__ ๐บ
- 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)__ ๐ฅณ
- 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 __3366 unit tests__ ๐คฏ
- C++20 only, with all the latest features used like concepts/constraints, ranges, smart pointers (no `new` keyword in the whole code ๐), folding expressions
- qmake and CMake build systems support
- CMake FetchContent module support ๐ค
- vcpkg support (also the vcpkg port, currently not committed to the vcpkg repository โน๏ธ)
- it's really fast, you can run 1000 complex queries in 500ms (heavily DB dependant, the PostgreSQL is by far the fastest) โ
- extensive documentation ๐
- ...
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See the `TinyDrivers` [Features summary](tinydrivers/getting-started#features-summary).
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## Showcase Images
###### Tom console application
###### Passed all unit tests ๐ฅณ
#### TinyOrmPlayground
The [TinyOrmPlayground](https://github.com/silverqx/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](database/getting-started.mdx#introduction).
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](https://github.com/silverqx/TinyOrmPlayground/blob/main/src/configuration.hpp) class.
###### TinyOrmPlayground single-threaded
###### TinyOrmPlayground multi-threaded