ScalikeJDBC VS kotlin-spark-api

Compare ScalikeJDBC vs kotlin-spark-api and see what are their differences.

ScalikeJDBC

A tidy SQL-based DB access library for Scala developers. This library naturally wraps JDBC APIs and provides you easy-to-use APIs. (by scalikejdbc)

kotlin-spark-api

This projects gives Kotlin bindings and several extensions for Apache Spark. We are looking to have this as a part of Apache Spark 3.x (by Kotlin)
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8.9 4.9
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Scala Kotlin
Apache License 2.0 Apache License 2.0
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ScalikeJDBC

Posts with mentions or reviews of ScalikeJDBC. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-02-24.
  • What are the possible ways to connect with MYSQL using scala
    1 project | /r/scala | 15 Nov 2022
    You can also try http://scalikejdbc.org which is my personal favorite.
  • Scala 3 RDBMS Libraries
    1 project | /r/scala | 10 Dec 2021
    Maybe not what you're looking for but ScalikeJDBC is published for Scala 3 since version 4.0.0.
  • Query DSL in Scala 3
    2 projects | /r/scala | 24 Feb 2021
  • From First Principles: Why Scala?
    11 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 11 Feb 2021
    I have had poor experiences with "fancy" SQL libraries in multiple languages when I go past basic operations. This includes Slick and Quill in Scala.

    I don't remember what the problems were with Slick that leave such a bad feeling when I hear its name -- that was 5 years ago -- but I had problems with Quill just last year. I was trying to use it to generate an efficient "in" query against a two column composite primary key, and nothing seemed to work. Since it uses macro magic, one of my attempts triggered an internal compiler error instead of normal compiler feedback.

    I ended up dropping Quill for ScalikeJDBC:

    http://scalikejdbc.org/

    It seems to be less popular/active than other libraries, but it is dead simple to use, even for developers new to Scala. I write exactly the SQL I want just like I would in psql. There is little-to-no magic [1]. I think that the only slightly magical feature I use is ensure that variable interpolation into SQL ("SQLInterpolation") prevents injection attacks.

    [1] It actually has capabilities to automatically map tables/columns into different structures and generate code for you, but my team doesn't use any of that. We just write SQL.

kotlin-spark-api

Posts with mentions or reviews of kotlin-spark-api. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-23.
  • What are your favorite Apache Spark open source libraries?
    2 projects | /r/apachespark | 23 Feb 2023
    https://github.com/Kotlin/kotlin-spark-api this definitely needs to be in the language bindings section 😅
  • Migration from Scala to Kotlin
    1 project | /r/Kotlin | 19 Nov 2022
    Kotlin should mostly have no problems being called in Scala. Give kotlin-spark-api a look to figure out how would that work the other way around.
  • From First Principles: Why Scala?
    11 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 11 Feb 2021
    Scala is nice for doing things with Spark compared to say, Java, but I really think that Kotlin can do just as well. The only advantage Scala has with Spark is the syntactic sugar. Once there is an API for Kotlin (beyond the preview version), I will be dropping Scala like a bad habit. Kotlin is also concise, has better IntelliJ support, and better Java interop.

    https://github.com/JetBrains/kotlin-spark-api

What are some alternatives?

When comparing ScalikeJDBC and kotlin-spark-api you can also consider the following projects:

Slick - Slick (Scala Language Integrated Connection Kit) is a modern database query and access library for Scala

doobie - Functional JDBC layer for Scala.

Quill - Compile-time Language Integrated Queries for Scala

treelog - Allows logging in a tree structure so that comprehensive logging does not become incomprehensible

Anorm - The Anorm database library

PyCall.jl - Package to call Python functions from the Julia language

Squeryl - A Scala DSL for talking with databases with minimum verbosity and maximum type safety

dotty - The Scala 3 compiler, also known as Dotty.

Relate - Performant database access in Scala

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