jOOQ VS sql2o

Compare jOOQ vs sql2o and see what are their differences.

sql2o

sql2o is a small library, which makes it easy to convert the result of your sql-statements into objects. No resultset hacking required. Kind of like an orm, but without the sql-generation capabilities. Supports named parameters. (by aaberg)
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jOOQ sql2o
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6,443 1,160
0.9% 0.3%
9.8 6.6
8 days ago 4 months ago
Java Java
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later MIT License
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jOOQ

Posts with mentions or reviews of jOOQ. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2025-06-27.
  • A Lisp adventure on the calm waters of the dead C (2021)
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Jun 2025
    Two good examples of "builders to SQL" are

    https://www.jooq.org/

    and

    https://www.sqlalchemy.org/

    JooQ isn't everybody's taste but I use it for my job and I think it's great particularly in that you can reuse expressions and write generators for complex queries. We have a powerful search interface that combines full-text with other kinds of queries ("Is about topic T", "Data was collected between S and E") that is beautiful. I think it's funny how JooQ has that lispy f(a,b) style (no accident it is like ferocity) and how Sqlalchemy is really fluent and takes advantage of operator overloading.

  • Streaming data from RDBMS with jooq
    3 projects | dev.to | 23 Feb 2025
    Relational databases provide components such as cursors, which can be used to process large datasets while fetching only a limited number of rows at a time. With the help of jooq framework,we can take it a step further—leveraging cursors under the hood while seamlessly integrating with Java's Stream API. Let’s see it in action!
  • Systems ideas that sound good but almost never work
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 31 Dec 2024
    (1) DSLs work great sometimes. See https://www.jooq.org/

    (2) Elastic Load Balancer is a control loop responsive to workloads, that kind of thing is a commodity

    (3) Under-provisioning is rampant in most industries; see https://erikbern.com/2018/03/27/waiting-time-load-factor-and... and https://www.amazon.com/Goal-Process-Ongoing-Improvement/dp/0...

    (4) Anomaly detection is not inherently a problem of distributed systems like the others, but someone facing the problems they've been burned with might think they need it. Intellectually it's tough. The first algorithm I saw that felt halfway smart was https://scikit-learn.org/1.5/modules/outlier_detection.html#... which is sometimes a miracle and I had good luck using it on text with the CNN-based embeddings we had in 2018 but none at all w/ SBERT.

  • Net 9.0 LINQ Performance Improvements
    16 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 18 Oct 2024
    jOOQ would be one such example, https://www.jooq.org/

    Not that I use this, I am a myBatis person in what concerns database access in Java, and Dapper in .NET for that matter, not a big ORM fan.

  • Sqlc: Compile SQL to type-safe code
    15 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 8 Sep 2024
  • Serious flaws in SQL – Edgar F. Codd (1990)
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 25 Apr 2024
    > 2. ORMs do not hide SQL nastiness.

    This is certainly true!

    I mean: ORMs are now well known to "make the easy queries slightly more easy, while making intermediate queries really hard and complex queries impossible".

    I think the are of ORMs is over. It simply did not deliver.

    If a book on SQL is --say-- 100 pages, a book on Hibernate is 400 pages. So much to learn just to make the easy queries slightly easier to type? Just not worth it.

    I prefer jooq any day over ORMs. And dont get me started over what tools like Hasuna have to offer.

    There are also some languages (forgot the names) that are SQL-done-right. Select in the back, more type safe, more logic, more in the same steps as the query gets executed. These need to be adopted by PG and MySQL and we're good to go. (IMHO)

    https://www.jooq.org/

    https://hasura.io/

  • ORMs are nice but they are the wrong abstraction
    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 1 Feb 2024
  • Do jOOQ DAOs support Kotlin Coroutines with R2DBC?
    1 project | /r/jOOQ | 21 Nov 2023
    See: https://github.com/jOOQ/jOOQ/issues/5916
  • Ask HN: What's your experience with stored procedures-heavy systems?
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 18 Aug 2023
  • SQL based language for the SQL impaired?
    1 project | /r/SQL | 10 Jul 2023

sql2o

Posts with mentions or reviews of sql2o. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.
  • Are there recommended approach working with Database except Panache/Hibernate ?
    1 project | /r/quarkus | 29 May 2022
    Mostly i think because in our Kubernetes - the max resources allocated for single service instance - 2gb ram + 4vcore (2vcore, for 4 there is special agreement process). Under load i often see high memory pressure (gc count, high pauses, etc.). But handling http requests and dealing with CRUD is not a big problem. The huge difference appears during data batch upload into big-data system. The only service which was able to upload it's database faster than 300k record/s+ (peak ingestion) is using https://github.com/aaberg/sql2o + https://vertx.io/docs/vertx-pg-client/java/ . I don't remember numbers for services which use hibernate, but they mostly are very low.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing jOOQ and sql2o you can also consider the following projects:

Querydsl - Unified Queries for Java

JDBI - The Jdbi library provides convenient, idiomatic access to relational databases in Java and other JVM technologies such as Kotlin, Clojure or Scala.

mybatis-plus - An powerful enhanced toolkit of MyBatis for simplify development

HikariCP - 光 HikariCP・A solid, high-performance, JDBC connection pool at last.

Crate - CrateDB is a distributed and scalable SQL database for storing and analyzing massive amounts of data in near real-time, even with complex queries. It is PostgreSQL-compatible, and based on Lucene.

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