pggen VS sqlc

Compare pggen vs sqlc and see what are their differences.

pggen

A database first code generator focused on postgres (by opendoor)
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pggen sqlc
2 169
58 10,950
- 6.5%
0.6 9.6
about 1 month ago 3 days ago
Go Go
MIT License MIT License
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pggen

Posts with mentions or reviews of pggen. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-09-08.
  • We Went All in on Sqlc/Pgx for Postgres and Go
    31 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 8 Sep 2021
    If you want a code generator like this that has support for that kind of thing, https://github.com/opendoor/pggen can automatically infer these kinds of relationships based on foreign key relationships and emit slices of pointers to connect the records together in memory. It can even figure out 1-1 relationships if there is a UNIQUE index on the foreign key. There is a little mini-DSL for specifying exactly how much of the transitive closure of a given record you want to get filled in for you.

sqlc

Posts with mentions or reviews of sqlc. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-02-26.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing pggen and sqlc you can also consider the following projects:

pggen - Generate type-safe Go for any Postgres query. If Postgres can run the query, pggen can generate code for it.

sqlx - general purpose extensions to golang's database/sql

sqlparser-rs - Extensible SQL Lexer and Parser for Rust

GORM - The fantastic ORM library for Golang, aims to be developer friendly

goqu - SQL builder and query library for golang

SQLBoiler - Generate a Go ORM tailored to your database schema.

sqlite

ent - An entity framework for Go

gnorm - A database-first code generator for any language

jet - Type safe SQL builder with code generation and automatic query result data mapping

proteus - A simple tool for generating an application's data access layer.

pgx - PostgreSQL driver and toolkit for Go