cornucopia VS sqlx

Compare cornucopia vs sqlx and see what are their differences.

cornucopia

Generate type-checked Rust from your PostgreSQL. (by cornucopia-rs)

sqlx

🧰 The Rust SQL Toolkit. An async, pure Rust SQL crate featuring compile-time checked queries without a DSL. Supports PostgreSQL, MySQL, and SQLite. (by launchbadge)
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cornucopia sqlx
20 144
697 11,822
12.3% 4.0%
4.6 9.2
5 days ago about 23 hours ago
Rust Rust
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later Apache License 2.0
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cornucopia

Posts with mentions or reviews of cornucopia. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-02-02.
  • We built our customer data warehouse all on Postgres
    16 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 2 Feb 2024
    There are multiple queries each separated by ; and on top of each query, there's a comment giving a name to the query (it's more like a header)

    I think the only thing that would require specific support in postgres_lsp is using the :parameter_name syntax for prepared statements [1] (in vanilla Postgres would be something like $1 or $2, but in Cornucopia it is named to aid readability). But, if postgres_lsp is forgiging enough to not choke on that, then it seems completely fit for this use case.

    [0] https://github.com/cornucopia-rs/cornucopia

    [1] https://cornucopia-rs.netlify.app/book/writing_queries/writi...

  • Is ORM still an anti-pattern?
    15 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Jun 2023
    Some examples for anyone else reading:

    https://github.com/kyleconroy/sqlc

    https://github.com/cornucopia-rs/cornucopia

    This is my preferred method of interacting with databases now.

    Very flexible.

  • What ORM do you use?
    6 projects | /r/rust | 9 May 2023
    I like Cornucopia. It’s a SQL-first approach, so I don’t have to worry about an ORM generating pathological queries. It’s also basically zero cost compared to directly using rust-postgres and supports both sync and async. I also like that my SQL queries end up separate from my Rust code, so it’s easy to update all the relevant queries when the schema changes.
  • What is the recommended way to implement session authorization?
    4 projects | /r/rust | 2 Mar 2023
    Also, I moved away from SQLx due to slow compile times and now use https://github.com/cornucopia-rs/cornucopia
  • Oops, You Wrote a Database
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 26 Feb 2023
    While we're on the subject of ORM's I really like the https://github.com/cornucopia-rs/cornucopia way of doing things.

    Basically write SQL in a file and code generate a function that runs the SQL for you and puts it into a struct (this one is for rust)

    I think there's a library to do the same thing with typescript.

    For me, the best way to talk to the database is with SQL and I don't have to learn an ORMs way of doing it.

  • Thoughts about switching from sqlx to tokio_postgres?
    4 projects | /r/rust | 4 Feb 2023
    You can take a look at https://github.com/cornucopia-rs/cornucopia which is a thin codegen layer on top of tokio-postgres for ease of use.
  • Ormlite: An ORM in Rust for developers that love SQL
    4 projects | /r/rust | 25 Jan 2023
    I think we have that https://github.com/cornucopia-rs/cornucopia
  • Ask HN: ORM or Native SQL?
    10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 6 Jan 2023
    The best solution I've ever seen is this Rust library https://github.com/cornucopia-rs/cornucopia

    You write plain SQL for you schema (just a schema.sql is enough) and plain SQL functions for your queries. Then it generates Rust types and Rust functions from from that. If you don't use Rust, maybe there's a library like that for your favorite language.

    Optionally, pair it with https://github.com/bikeshedder/tusker or https://github.com/blainehansen/postgres_migrator (both are based off https://github.com/djrobstep/migra) to generate migrations by diffing your schema.sql files, and https://github.com/rust-db/refinery to perform those migrations.

    Now, if you have simple crud needs, you should probably use https://postgrest.org/en/stable/ and not an ORM. There are packages like https://www.npmjs.com/package/@supabase/postgrest-js (for JS / typescript) and probably for other languages too.

    If you insist on an ORM, the best of the bunch is prisma https://www.prisma.io/ - outside of the typescript/javascript ecosystem it has ports for some other languages (with varying degrees of completion), the one I know about is the Rust one https://prisma.brendonovich.dev/introduction

  • Anything like sqlc for Rust?
    5 projects | /r/rust | 1 Jan 2023
  • What features would you consider missing/nice to haves for backend web development in Rust?
    6 projects | /r/rust | 4 Nov 2022
    Does Cornucopia satisfy this requirement?

sqlx

Posts with mentions or reviews of sqlx. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-09.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing cornucopia and sqlx you can also consider the following projects:

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diesel - A safe, extensible ORM and Query Builder for Rust

rbatis - Rust Compile Time ORM robustness,async, pure Rust Dynamic SQL

sea-orm - 🐚 An async & dynamic ORM for Rust

diesel_async - Diesel async connection implementation

tokio - A runtime for writing reliable asynchronous applications with Rust. Provides I/O, networking, scheduling, timers, ...

bb8 - Full-featured async (tokio-based) postgres connection pool (like r2d2)

rust-postgres - Native PostgreSQL driver for the Rust programming language

typed-session-axum - Typed-session as axum middleware

actix-web - Actix Web is a powerful, pragmatic, and extremely fast web framework for Rust.