PyMySQL vs awesome-postgres

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PyMySQL		awesome-postgres
	Project
4	Mentions	5
7,544	Stars	9,475
0.6%	Growth	-
7.4	Activity	5.0
21 days ago	Latest Commit	25 days ago
Python	Language
MIT License	License	Creative Commons Zero v1.0 Universal

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

PyMySQL

Posts with mentions or reviews of PyMySQL. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-03-23.

What is the defacto python driver for Mysql?
2 projects | /r/mysql | 23 Mar 2022

Pymysql is the one i have seen being used most commonly. https://github.com/PyMySQL/PyMySQL
There are many options for connecting MySQL from Python, but let's use PyMySQL or mysql-connector-python for now.
2 projects | dev.to | 5 Mar 2022

PyMySQL

awesome-postgres

Posts with mentions or reviews of awesome-postgres. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-11.

Ask HN: Best GitHub Repos
3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 11 May 2023

Personally love awesome Postgres - https://github.com/dhamaniasad/awesome-postgres
Free, open-source tools for Postgres
2 projects | /r/PostgreSQL | 20 Nov 2022

What are some alternatives?

When comparing PyMySQL and awesome-postgres you can also consider the following projects:

mysqlclient - MySQL database connector for Python (with Python 3 support)

mysql-python - MySQLdb is a Python DB API-2.0 compliant library to interact with MySQL 3.23-5.1 (unofficial mirror)

awesome-mysql - A curated list of awesome MySQL software, libraries, tools and resources

asyncpg - A fast PostgreSQL Database Client Library for Python/asyncio.

oursql - oursql is a set of MySQL bindings for python with a focus on wrapping the MYSQL_STMT API to provide real parameterization and real server-side cursors.

mysql-connector-python - MySQL Connector/Python is implementing the MySQL Client/Server protocol completely in Python. No MySQL libraries are needed, and no compilation is necessary to run this Python DB API v2.0 compliant driver. Documentation & Download: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/connector-python/en

python-mysql-replication - Pure Python Implementation of MySQL replication protocol build on top of PyMYSQL