About tokio-rs/toasty
tokio-rs/toasty is an open-source project on GitHub, mainly written in Rust. An async ORM for Rust It currently holds 3,165 stars and 142 forks with 107 open issues, and was last pushed on 2026-09-26 (repository created 2024-10-22).
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Toasty
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Toasty supports SQL databases (SQLite/Turso, PostgreSQL, MySQL) and DynamoDB. It does not hide database capabilities — it exposes features based on the target database.
Using Toasty
You will define your data model using Rust structs annotated with the
#[derive(toasty::Model)] derive macro. Runnable examples live in the
examples/ directory; the snippets below illustrate the basics.
#[derive(Debug, toasty::Model)]
struct User {
#[key]
#[auto]
id: u64,
name: String,
#[unique]
email: String,
#[has_many]
todos: toasty::Deferred>,
}
[derive(Debug, toasty::Model)]
struct Todo {
#[key]
#[auto]
id: u64,
#[index]
user_id: u64,
#[belongs_to]
user: toasty::Deferred,
title: String,
}
Then, you can easily work with the data model:
// Create a new user and give them some todos.
let user = toasty::create!(User {
name: "John Doe",
email: "[email protected]",
todos: [
{ title: "Make pizza" },
{ title: "Finish Toasty" },
{ title: "Sleep" },
],
}).exec(&mut db).await?;
// Load the user from the database
let user = User::get_by_id(&mut db, &user.id).await?;
// Load and iterate the user's todos
let todos = user.todos().exec(&mut db).await?;
for todo in &todos {
println!("{:#?}", todo);
}
SQL and NoSQL
Toasty supports both SQL and NoSQL databases. Current drivers are SQLite, Turso, PostgreSQL, MySQL, and DynamoDB. However, it does not aim to abstract the database. Instead, Toasty leans into the target database's capabilities and aims to help the user avoid issuing inefficient queries for that database.
When targeting both SQL and NoSQL databases, Toasty generates query methods
(e.g. get_by_id only for access patterns that are indexed). When targeting a
SQL database, Toasty might allow arbitrary additional query constraints. When
targeting a NoSQL database, Toasty will only allow constraints that the
specific target database can execute. For example, with DynamoDB, query methods
might be generated based on the table's primary key, and additional constraints
may be set for the sort key.
Application data model vs. database schema
Toasty decouples the application data model from the database's schema. By default, a toasty application schema will map 1-1 with a database schema. However, additional annotations may be specified to customize how the application data model maps to the database schema.
Roadmap
Development priorities are based on feedback and contributions. If you run into
missing features or rough edges, please open an issue or submit a pull request.
Planned work lives under docs/dev/roadmap.md.
Contributing
See CONTRIBUTING.md. Small fixes can go straight to a PR;
larger changes follow a lightweight propose → roadmap + design doc → implement
flow.
License
This project is licensed under the [MIT license].
[MIT license]: LICENSE
Contribution
Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted for inclusion in Toasty by you, shall be licensed as MIT, without any additional terms or conditions.