That's more of a query builder than an ORM: it doesn't actually use objects and only allows for expressing SQL queries in Go.

In that it is similar to LINQ or HQL or SQLAlchemy Core — at an even lower level really since things like conditions are provided as parameterised strings.

In the functional world, there obviously aren't objects and structs are not the same things as objects in the OOP sense.

Even then the key part of a ORM is the "R". ORMs allow you to utilize a RDBMS transparently as if you were manipulating the OOP objects.

A couple of projects that this is closer to than Django ORM.

https://github.com/elixir-ecto/ecto -> "Database Wrapper" http://www.yesodweb.com/book/persistent -> "data store interface" https://hackage.haskell.org/package/groundhog -> "Database Mapping"