{"id":13346,"date":"2024-03-15T06:52:45","date_gmt":"2024-03-15T06:52:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.silicloud.com\/blog\/how-to-use-the-storm-tool-for-embedded-database-boltdb-in-golang\/"},"modified":"2025-08-05T16:52:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T16:52:09","slug":"how-to-use-the-storm-tool-for-embedded-database-boltdb-in-golang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.silicloud.com\/blog\/how-to-use-the-storm-tool-for-embedded-database-boltdb-in-golang\/","title":{"rendered":"Go Database: Storm &#038; BoltDB Guide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Storm is a wrapper library for BoltDB, offering convenient methods and tools for using the BoltDB embedded database in Go. Below is a simple example demonstrating how to perform database operations using Storm.<\/p>\n<p>Firstly, we need to import the packages of Storm and BoltDB.<\/p>\n<pre class=\"post-pre\"><code><span class=\"hljs-keyword\">import<\/span> (\r\n\t<span class=\"hljs-string\">\"github.com\/asdine\/storm\"<\/span>\r\n\t<span class=\"hljs-string\">\"github.com\/boltdb\/bolt\"<\/span>\r\n)\r\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>Next, we can establish a database connection.<\/p>\n<pre class=\"post-pre\"><code>db, err := storm.Open(<span class=\"hljs-string\">\"mydb.db\"<\/span>, storm.AutoIncrement())\r\n<span class=\"hljs-keyword\">if<\/span> err != <span class=\"hljs-literal\">nil<\/span> {\r\n    log.Fatal(err)\r\n}\r\n<span class=\"hljs-keyword\">defer<\/span> db.Close()\r\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>In this example, we are using the AutoIncrement option to automatically generate a unique ID for each inserted record.<\/p>\n<p>Next, we can define a struct type to represent the data in the database.<\/p>\n<pre class=\"post-pre\"><code><span class=\"hljs-keyword\">type<\/span> Person <span class=\"hljs-keyword\">struct<\/span> {\r\n\tID   <span class=\"hljs-type\">int<\/span>    <span class=\"hljs-string\">`storm:\"id,increment\"`<\/span>\r\n\tName <span class=\"hljs-type\">string<\/span> <span class=\"hljs-string\">`storm:\"index\"`<\/span>\r\n\tAge  <span class=\"hljs-type\">int<\/span>\r\n}\r\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>In this example, the Person type has an auto-incrementing ID field and an indexed Name field.<\/p>\n<p>Then, we can insert a record into the database.<\/p>\n<pre class=\"post-pre\"><code>person := Person{Name: <span class=\"hljs-string\">\"John\"<\/span>, Age: <span class=\"hljs-number\">30<\/span>}\r\nerr = db.Save(&amp;person)\r\n<span class=\"hljs-keyword\">if<\/span> err != <span class=\"hljs-literal\">nil<\/span> {\r\n    log.Fatal(err)\r\n}\r\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>We can save data to the database using the Save method. Note that we are passing a pointer to a Person struct.<\/p>\n<p>Next, we can retrieve records from the database.<\/p>\n<pre class=\"post-pre\"><code><span class=\"hljs-keyword\">var<\/span> persons []Person\r\nerr = db.All(&amp;persons)\r\n<span class=\"hljs-keyword\">if<\/span> err != <span class=\"hljs-literal\">nil<\/span> {\r\n    log.Fatal(err)\r\n}\r\n\r\n<span class=\"hljs-keyword\">for<\/span> _, person := <span class=\"hljs-keyword\">range<\/span> persons {\r\n    fmt.Printf(<span class=\"hljs-string\">\"ID: %d, Name: %s, Age: %d\\n\"<\/span>, person.ID, person.Name, person.Age)\r\n}\r\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>In this example, we use the All method to retrieve all records and store them in a slice []Person. We can then iterate through the slice and print the information of each person.<\/p>\n<p>Aside from the All method, Storm also provides many other query methods, such as Find and One.<\/p>\n<p>These are the basic steps for performing BoltDB database operations using Storm. 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