The Best Flutter Database and ORM Packages
Flutter is a mobile app development framework that has been growing rapidly in popularity. It offers an excellent set of tools for both developers and designers, with the added bonus of being cross-platform. But for all its benefits, Flutter does have some downsides, one of which is database management. Thankfully there are many great database & ORM packages available to help you manage your data! In this blog post we will explore some of the best ones out there!
postgrest
The PostgREST client for Dart is a framework developed by the creator of this library. This library offers an ORM interface to PostgREST.
conduit
A modern HTTP server application framework with OpenAPI 3.0 integration, ORM, and OAuth2 provider. REST, RPC, or GraphQL services are all possible with this foundation.
sqfentity_gen
The Flutter SDK provides native support for the SQLite ORM, which is a free and open-source cross-platform popular object relational mapping (ORM) library. The Flutter SDK includes an SqfnEntity Model Generator tool that allows you to quickly create models from existing database schema by utilizing fluent methods.
jaguar_orm
ORM for generating data from a database. Relationships (one-to-one, one-to-many, many-to-many), preloading, cascading, polymorphic relations, etc… are all included.
hive
The most popular free key-value database, written entirely in Dart. It’s heavily encrypted with AES-256.
sqflite_common
A self-contained, high-reliability, embedded, SQL database engine runs on top of the Dart wrapper on SQLite.
sqflite
The plugin for SQLite, a self-contained, high-reliability, embedded, SQL database engine with Flutter.
objectbox
The ObjectBox is a high-performance NoSQL ACID compliant object data store.
It has a good performance. It is easy to find data because it is organized well. It can handle a lot of things and grow with your app. You can search the data in any way you want, even if it crosses different things. You don’t have to worry about compiling time checks and optimizations because it is static typed.
entity
A lightweight ORM for Relational and NoSQL databases, such as Couchbase and PostgreSQL.
angel3_orm
Angel3 ORM is a database-agnostic query builder. It also has relationship and join support.
sqfly
ActiveRecord is a popular ORM framework that uses an object-oriented approach. This project was initially started as AKU (which stands for Active Record Unwrapped). It’s based on Sqflite and utilizes the DAO architecture.
rapidfire
The RapidFire Flutter Library is a versatile ORM system for mobile application development that combines popular Dart packages. Validation, CRUD, and API operations are all automated.