psycopg2 vs awesome-mysql

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psycopg2		awesome-mysql
	Project
19	Mentions	1
3,200	Stars	2,227
1.4%	Growth	-
7.2	Activity	2.3
15 days ago	Latest Commit	2 months ago
C	Language
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 or later

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psycopg2

Posts with mentions or reviews of psycopg2. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-03.

Underappreciated Challenges with Python Packaging
10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 3 Jan 2023

Back when I used Psycopg2, there was no -binary package, so you'd get libpq set up similarly to pg-native. Docs say:
> The binary package is a practical choice for development and testing but in production it is advised to use the package built from sources.
Relevant GitHub discussion: https://github.com/psycopg/psycopg2/issues/674
I dunno, this seems worse to me.
Has anyone made the switch from developing in Windows to macOS? Any general or specific advice about the switch?
10 projects | /r/ExperiencedDevs | 11 Oct 2022

psycopg2-binary. See https://github.com/psycopg/psycopg2/issues/1286.
Dockerize a Django, React, and Postgres application with docker and docker-compose | by Anjal Bam
6 projects | dev.to | 10 Sep 2022

psycopg2-binary, PostgreSQL Database adapter for python.
My Cookiecutter Django Setup
3 projects | dev.to | 27 Jul 2022

... # psycopg2==2.9.3 # https://github.com/psycopg/psycopg2 ...
How to deploy the Front-end(React) and Backend(Django) with Postgres at Heroku
9 projects | dev.to | 10 Dec 2021

psycopg2: Psycopg is a PostgreSQL adapter for the Python programming language.
How To Access And Query Your Amazon Redshift Data Using Python And R
3 projects | dev.to | 20 Sep 2021

Since Redshift is compatible with other databases such as PostgreSQL, we use the Python psycopg library to access and query the data from Redshift. We will then store the query results as a dataframe in pandas using the SQLAlchemy library.
Exemplo de AWS API Gateway com Lambda pelo Terraform
8 projects | dev.to | 7 Sep 2021
Using YugabyteDB in Python App Development
4 projects | dev.to | 28 Aug 2021

Since we are going to use both PostgreSQL and Apache Cassandra data model, we need to install those two drivers: psycopg2 for PostgreSQL and Python Driver for Apache Cassandra.

awesome-mysql

Posts with mentions or reviews of awesome-mysql. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-02-26.

CSS Deep
2090 projects | dev.to | 26 Feb 2021

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

What are some alternatives?

When comparing psycopg2 and awesome-mysql you can also consider the following projects:

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

queries - PostgreSQL database access simplified

SQLAlchemy - The Database Toolkit for Python

PostgreSQL - Mirror of the official PostgreSQL GIT repository. Note that this is just a *mirror* - we don't work with pull requests on github. To contribute, please see https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Submitting_a_Patch

txpostgres - Twisted wrapper for asynchronous PostgreSQL connections

Python PG Extras - Python PostgreSQL database performance insights. Locks, index usage, buffer cache hit ratios, vacuum stats and more.

PyMySQL - MySQL client library for Python

clickhouse-driver - ClickHouse Python Driver with native interface support

pymssql - Official home for the pymssql source code.

yugabyte-db - YugabyteDB - the cloud native distributed SQL database for mission-critical applications.

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