Oxyde ORM is a type-safe, Pydantic-centric asynchronous ORM with a high-performance Rust core designed for clarity, speed, and reliability.

Inspired by the elegance of Django’s ORM, Oxyde focuses on explicitness over magic, providing a modern developer-friendly workflow with predictable behavior and strong typing throughout.

• Django-style API — Familiar Model.objects.filter() syntax
• Pydantic v2 models — Full validation, type hints, serialization
• Async-first — Built for modern async Python with asyncio
• Rust performance — SQL generation and execution in native Rust
• Multi-database — PostgreSQL, SQLite, MySQL support
• Transactions — transaction.atomic() context manager with savepoints
• Migrations — Django-style makemigrations and migrate CLI

Oxyde's Rust core handles SQL generation and query execution, releasing Python's GIL during database I/O. This enables true parallelism for database operations.

Benchmarks vs popular Python ORMs (avg ops/sec, higher is better):

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Built on Pydantic v2, Oxyde provides full type checking for models and queries. Your IDE understands your database schema.

If you know Django ORM, you know Oxyde. The QuerySet API follows Django conventions:

# Django
User.objects.filter(age__gte=18).exclude(status="banned").order_by("-created_at")

# Oxyde (identical)
await User.objects.filter(age__gte=18).exclude(status="banned").order_by("-created_at").all()

No sync wrappers or thread pools. Oxyde is async from the ground up:

from oxyde.db import transaction

async with transaction.atomic():
    user = await User.objects.create(name="Alice")
    await Profile.objects.create(user_id=user.id)

SQLite < 3.35: Falls back to last_insert_rowid() which may return incorrect IDs with concurrent inserts.

MySQL: No RETURNING clause — uses last_insert_id(). Bulk INSERT returns calculated ID range which may be incorrect with concurrent inserts.

Auto-generated admin panel for Oxyde ORM with zero boilerplate.

• Automatic CRUD, search, filters, export
• FastAPI, Litestar, Sanic, Quart, Falcon
• Theming, authentication, bulk operations

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