How to get current user's group ids etc without query to database

In a theme or other custom module, sometimes, we need to know user's groups msg, a query to database for sure works like,
SELECT group_membership.gid AS group_membership_gid
FROM
{group_membership} group_membership
WHERE (( (group_membership.uid = '123') ))

But it may not be best practice for performance.

Is there a way we can call group existing msg which Group module provided without the query.