myowndb VS monazita

It's open source: https://gitlab.com/myowndb/myowndb

I enjoy the technical side, but I'm struggling to commercialise it so don't hesitate to give me your feedback here or on https://www.myowndb.com/contact.html which is of course powered by a myowndb public form :-)

I'm happy to share an F# library to interact with a postgresql database in a railway oriented programming style[3] and writing SQL queries. It is available at

https://gitlab.com/monazita/monazita/

with documentation at

https://monazita.gitlab.io/monazita/

It was developed for a web application [1] requiring the use of specific SQL queries (using the table_func[2] plugin for crosstab queries) which prevented the use of more traditional ORM-style libraries.

As I was also using the development of that application to dive into functional programming, I decided to try a fully functional approach[4].

It proved itself a very useful approach, to the point I thought it was worth to share it as a Nuget library [6].

I particularly like the fact that I can

* write normal sql with parameter substitutions using printf placeholders. If you don't want to write SQL, this library is clearly not for you :-)

* define the queries and data manipulations without worrying about the connection to the database. This allowed me to define all queries and data manipulations in a library [5] where I'm not concerned about handling connection issues, which is done in the app code using that library.

The library is released under the LGPL license, and is published as an alpha stage project because it still needs some cleanup after its extraction from the web app it originated from.