SqlKata Query Builder VS honeysql

Compare SqlKata Query Builder vs honeysql and see what are their differences.

SqlKata Query Builder

SQL query builder, written in c#, helps you build complex queries easily, supports SqlServer, MySql, PostgreSql, Oracle, Sqlite and Firebird (by sqlkata)

honeysql

Turn Clojure data structures into SQL (by seancorfield)
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SqlKata Query Builder honeysql
5 16
2,978 1,698
1.5% -
3.0 8.6
5 days ago 20 days ago
C# Clojure
MIT License -
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SqlKata Query Builder

Posts with mentions or reviews of SqlKata Query Builder. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-10.
  • EF Core or Dapper
    2 projects | /r/dotnet | 10 Mar 2023
    SqlKata is your friend.
  • ASP.Net Core database modelling without using existing ORMs?
    4 projects | /r/dotnet | 26 Jan 2023
    Don't know if can be a good pick for the no-ORM requirement but I would take a look at SqlKata which is a nice query builder + execution engine, built on top of Dapper
  • Windyquery: A non-blocking Python PostgreSQL query builder
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 10 May 2021
    That is basically the description of an object mapper, with all the guarantees of an object mapper :). It seems if you actually use the query builder as such, no guarantees exist.

    I'm pretty picky regarding query builders and ORM's, to the extent of having written several of them over the years, in different languages (both dynamic and strong typed, unfortunately closed-source). I'm a strong advocate of schema-first design, and usually a query builder will allow you to design your queries explicitly, but having some internal behaviors (such as string concatenation, identifier quoting and automatic in-order separation of parameters and values to be bound) taken care of. As good examples of this, I'd mention golang's goqu (https://github.com/doug-martin/goqu) and - to some extent - C# SqlKata (https://sqlkata.com/). Following my frustrations with Python ORMs, I built my own toy project, sort-of-in-beta, called rickdb (https://github.com/oddbit-project/rick_db).

  • I don't want to learn your garbage query language
    9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 10 Mar 2021
    Less about the exact syntax and more about the tool, for example: https://github.com/sqlkata/querybuilder. I just chose that since it was on top of a search but the idea is the same. Your code generates raw SQL, so it's 100% interchangeable with writing SQL yourself however the builder library deals with the syntax, proper ordering, quoting, full attribute names, etc. Some such libraries even let you define your schema in code to make your SQL generation type safe.

honeysql

Posts with mentions or reviews of honeysql. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-06.
  • Why Is Jepsen Written in Clojure?
    8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 6 Dec 2023
    I recall using korma way back I and I don’t recall it being terrible but I would say https://github.com/seancorfield/honeysql has very much superseded it by this point… (but I can see how that might not be obviously clear if one is to look at superficial metrics like GitHub stars for example…)
  • That's a Lot of YAML
    14 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 28 Sep 2023
    Joins can certainly work in a data format like YAML. For an example, see Honey SQL from the Clojure community [0] (though without something to contrast strings like Clojure's keywords, you miss out on the automatic parameterization).

    You mentioned moving JOINs around, so I'll mention that if represented as structured data, you can move any of the top level components around, so you could more closely follow the "true order of SQL" [1]. For example, I would love to be able to put FROM before SELECT in all or almost all cases. There's also being able to share and add to something like a complicated WHERE clause, where essentially all programming languages have built-in facilities for robustly manipulating ordered and associative data compared to string manipulation, which is not well-suited for the task.

    Now don't get me wrong, I don't particularly care for YAML (though it doesn't bother me that much), but as someone who's done their fair share of programmatic SQL creation and manipulation in strings, not having a native way to represent SQL as data is a mistake in my opinion.

    0: https://github.com/seancorfield/honeysql#big-complicated-exa...

  • Como desenvolvi um backend web em Clojure
    23 projects | dev.to | 3 Jul 2023
  • Some questions regarding developing simple web apps in Clojure from a Clojure "beginner"
    3 projects | /r/Clojure | 26 Oct 2022
    As someone else already pointed out, next.jdbc is good for database connectivity (for Postgres and beyond). For composing the queries themselves, I strongly recommend Honey SQL. It lets you represent queries themselves as normal Clojure data structures, just vectors and maps.
  • What are some more options or good practices for dynamic SQL query building?
    6 projects | /r/java | 23 Sep 2022
  • Ask HN: Does anyone else think SQL needs help?
    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 11 Sep 2022
    Perhaps you're looking for a way of arranging SQL as an AST represented by data structures (or objects) that can be fed to a compiler. HoneySQL[0] is one such implementation of this idea and it makes your general transformation trivial for Clojure programs. You don't need to mess around with string concatenation because you have a predictable and extensible compiler for data structures (which are themselves easily composable/transformable/storable with Clojure) that you can trust to do the right thing. If you're using some weird database or need an esoteric syntax, extending the compiler to your clause is easy to do[1].

    [0] https://github.com/seancorfield/honeysql

    [1] https://github.com/seancorfield/honeysql#extensibility

    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 11 Sep 2022
    SQL was meant to be a hosted language from the get-go though, so any kind of macro-like feature was expected to be done in the host language.

    Of course it's a bit painful and error prone, given SQL is a textual language, but as HoneySQL (https://github.com/seancorfield/honeysql) shows, you can represent SQL statements as data and generate them programmatically in a safe manner.

  • Lisp feature - domain specific language
    8 projects | /r/lisp | 26 Aug 2022
    https://github.com/seancorfield/honeysql (write SQL without having to write SQL)
  • Fly.io Buys Litestream
    15 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 9 May 2022
    I've used it from Clojure, via HoneySQL, so no ORM, no danger of SQL injection. It was really wonderful!

    https://github.com/seancorfield/honeysql

    I used it to quickly iterate on the development of migration SQL scripts for a MySQL DB, which was running in production on RDS.

    I might have switched to H2 DB later, because that was more compatible with MariaDB, but I could use the same Clojure code, representing the SQL queries, because HoneySQL can emit different syntaxes.

  • Successors to Korma?
    3 projects | /r/Clojure | 22 Aug 2021
    HoneySQL is an SQL query generation and manipulation library based on nested Clojure data structures that can be rendered into SQL.

What are some alternatives?

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LiteDB - LiteDB - A .NET NoSQL Document Store in a single data file

Insight.Database - Fast, lightweight .NET micro-ORM

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

monitor-table-change-with-sqltabledependency - Get SQL Server notification on record table change

hugsql - A Clojure library for embracing SQL

Streamstone - Event store for Azure Table Storage

Realm Xamarin - Realm is a mobile database: a replacement for SQLite & ORMs

Apache Ignite - Apache Ignite

SQLStreamStore - Stream Store library targeting RDBMS based implementations for .NET