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Databases & ORM

API frameworks, database tooling, service architecture, and server-side application foundations.

16 Repositories Backend Updated Jul 16

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How to use this Databases & ORM index

Databases & ORM repositories in Skill Atlas are selected from popular GitHub projects and organized to help developers compare tools, patterns, and implementation examples. Use this page as a starting point before opening individual repositories for docs, issues, examples, and license details.

When to use this category

  • Find established open source projects related to databases & orm.
  • Compare repository popularity, language, tags, and practical use cases.
  • Build a shortlist before deeper technical evaluation.
  • Discover adjacent categories through related tags and subcategories.

How to choose

  • Start with repositories that match your language, runtime, and deployment model.
  • Check recent commits, issue activity, documentation quality, and license before adopting a project.
  • Use stars as a popularity signal, not as proof of fit or production readiness.
  • Common languages in this topic include Java, TypeScript, Go.
  • Frequent tags include Backend, cloud, C++, database, docker.

Databases & ORM repositories

16 repositories sorted by GitHub stars. Use the interactive explorer for live filters.

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sheetjs

Databases & ORM

📗 SheetJS Spreadsheet Data Toolkit -- New home https://git.sheetjs.com/SheetJS/sheetjs

Backendangularbuncsvdatadatabase

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  • Study implementation patterns for software projects
  • Open GitHub for documentation, examples, and issues
36k stars
GitHub

nacos

Databases & ORM

an easy-to-use dynamic service discovery, configuration and service management platform for building AI cloud native applications.

BackendJavaa2a-registryagentai-registryconfiguration-management

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  • Explore a popular backend repository
  • Study implementation patterns for Java projects
  • Open GitHub for documentation, examples, and issues
33k stars Java
GitHub

generator-jhipster

Databases & ORM

JHipster is a development platform to quickly generate, develop, & deploy modern web applications & microservice architectures.

BackendTypeScriptangularclouddockergenerator

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  • Study implementation patterns for TypeScript projects
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22k stars TypeScript
GitHub

thingsboard

Databases & ORM

Open-source IoT Platform - Device management, data collection, processing and visualization.

BackendJavabig-datacloudcoap-serverdashboards

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  • Study implementation patterns for Java projects
  • Open GitHub for documentation, examples, and issues
22k stars Java
GitHub

sealos

Databases & ORM

Sealos is an AI-native Cloud Operating System that unifies the entire application lifecycle, from development in cloud IDEs to production deployment and management. It is perfect for building and scaling modern AI applications, managed databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis, MongoDB) and complex microservice architectures.

BackendTypeScriptcloudoscontainerdockergolang

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  • Study implementation patterns for TypeScript projects
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18k stars TypeScript
GitHub

nomad

Databases & ORM

Nomad is an easy-to-use, flexible, and performant workload orchestrator that can deploy a mix of microservice, batch, containerized, and non-containerized applications. Nomad is easy to operate and scale and has native Consul and Vault integrations.

BackendGo

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  • Study implementation patterns for Go projects
  • Open GitHub for documentation, examples, and issues
17k stars Go
GitHub

encore

Databases & ORM

The infrastructure platform for the intelligence era

BackendGoawsbackendcloudcloud-native

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  • Study implementation patterns for Go projects
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12k stars Go
GitHub

sqlalchemy

Databases & ORM

The Database Toolkit for Python

BackendPythonpythonsqlsqlalchemy

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  • Study implementation patterns for Python projects
  • Open GitHub for documentation, examples, and issues
12k stars Python
GitHub

october

Databases & ORM

Self-hosted CMS platform based on the Laravel PHP Framework.

BackendPHPbackendcmfcmscms-platform

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  • Study implementation patterns for PHP projects
  • Open GitHub for documentation, examples, and issues
11k stars PHP
GitHub

WasmEdge

Databases & ORM

WasmEdge is a lightweight, high-performance, and extensible WebAssembly runtime for cloud native, edge, and decentralized applications. It powers serverless apps, embedded functions, microservices, smart contracts, and IoT devices.

BackendC++artificial-intelligencecloudcloud-nativecncf

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  • Study implementation patterns for C++ projects
  • Open GitHub for documentation, examples, and issues
11k stars C++
GitHub

Activiti

Databases & ORM

Activiti is a light-weight workflow and Business Process Management (BPM) Platform targeted at business people, developers and system admins. Its core is a super-fast and rock-solid BPMN 2 process engine for Java. It's open-source and distributed under the Apache license. Activiti runs in any Java application, on a server, on a cluster or in the cloud. It integrates perfectly with Spring, it is extremely lightweight and based on simple concepts.

BackendJavaactivitibpmbpmnbusiness-process

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  • Study implementation patterns for Java projects
  • Open GitHub for documentation, examples, and issues
11k stars Java
GitHub

seastar

Databases & ORM

High performance server-side application framework

BackendC++aioasyncc-plus-plusdpdk

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9.3k stars C++
GitHub

oatpp

Databases & ORM

🌱Light and powerful C++ web framework for highly scalable and resource-efficient web application. It's zero-dependency and easy-portable.

BackendC++c-plus-pluscppcross-platformiot

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  • Study implementation patterns for C++ projects
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8.6k stars C++
GitHub

GRDB.swift

Databases & ORM

A toolkit for SQLite databases, with a focus on application development

BackendSwiftdatabasedatabase-observationgrdbspm

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  • Study implementation patterns for Swift projects
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8.5k stars Swift
GitHub

swift-nio

Databases & ORM

Event-driven network application framework for high performance protocol servers & clients, non-blocking.

BackendSwiftasynchronous-ioevent-drivenhigh-performancenetworking

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  • Explore a popular backend repository
  • Study implementation patterns for Swift projects
  • Open GitHub for documentation, examples, and issues
8.5k stars Swift
GitHub

sequel

Databases & ORM

Sequel: The Database Toolkit for Ruby

BackendRuby

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  • Study implementation patterns for Ruby projects
  • Open GitHub for documentation, examples, and issues
5.1k stars Ruby
GitHub