rel8 vs jrutil

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rel8		jrutil
	Project
5	Mentions	2
147	Stars	-
2.7%	Growth	-
7.7	Activity	-
22 days ago	Latest Commit	-
Haskell	Language
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later	License	-

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Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

rel8

Posts with mentions or reviews of rel8. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-17.

Choosing the right abstraction level for SQLite library.
2 projects | /r/haskell | 17 Mar 2023

I also mention https://github.com/circuithub/rel8 on posts like these since I think it should be more well-known.
What's your favorite Database EDSL/library in Haskell?
4 projects | /r/haskell | 28 Feb 2023

I'm sensing a trend here, but .... https://rel8.readthedocs.io/ because I wrote it ':D
[ANN] Generic-Persistence 0.3.0 released
2 projects | /r/haskell | 25 Feb 2023

Does this work with https://github.com/circuithub/rel8?
Against SQL
8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 10 Jul 2021
[video] Ollie Charles: Rel8, a new database access library for Haskell
1 project | /r/haskell | 19 Jun 2021

jrutil

Posts with mentions or reviews of jrutil. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-07-10.

Soustrast se všemi kdo jedou domů vlakem
1 project | /r/czech | 22 Oct 2021
Against SQL
8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 10 Jul 2021

I've also tried to rewrite some of my challenging queries [0] in my hypothetical syntax and while I think your observation about pipeline length is correct, the result still came out much better than SQL. Frankly, even in F#, most of my pipelines are around 5 functions too. In my view, pipelines are just a convenient mental model. I'd love to see your sketches, here are my (very WIP) concepts: [1]
[0]: for example this monstrosity: https://gitlab.com/dvdkon/jrutil/-/blob/dbb971c18526e68dcc97...

What are some alternatives?

When comparing rel8 and jrutil you can also consider the following projects:

opaleye

Preql - An interpreted relational query language that compiles to SQL.

prosto - Prosto is a data processing toolkit radically changing how data is processed by heavily relying on functions and operations with functions - an alternative to map-reduce and join-groupby

fquery - A graph query engine

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

cimple - Cimple and Apidsl language parsers and tools

generic-persistence - GenericPersistence is a Haskell persistence library for relational databases. The approach relies on GHC.Generics. A real-world demo can be found here:

squealgen - generate haskell types for Squeal from a running postgresql database.