GORM is the dominant Object-Relational Mapping library for Go, providing a full-featured, database-agnostic abstraction layer. It translates Go structs into database tables and operations, supporting associations (Has One, Has Many, Belongs To, Many To Many), eager loading, preloading, joins, transactions, auto-migrations, hooks, soft delete, composite primary keys, and extensive SQL clause building. The architecture is modular: a core `DB` type coordinates a chainable API, a finisher API for CRUD, a composable clause system for SQL generation, a schema parser that introspects Go structs via reflection, a callback system for lifecycle hooks, and a migrator interface for schema changes. It wraps multiple database dialects (MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, SQL Server, TiDB, GaussDB) through driver-specific `Dialector` implementations. The codebase is production-grade, heavily tested, and widely adopted. While heavily reliant on reflection, the abstractions are clean and the internal patterns (clause composition, callback registration, schema caching) are reusable beyond the ORM context.