Slick VS circe

Compare Slick vs circe and see what are their differences.

Slick

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

circe

Yet another JSON library for Scala (by circe)
Our great sponsors
  • InfluxDB - Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale
  • WorkOS - The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS
  • SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews
Slick circe
17 12
2,638 2,470
0.3% 0.5%
8.6 7.4
8 days ago 6 days ago
Scala Scala
BSD 2-clause "Simplified" License Apache License 2.0
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
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.

Slick

Posts with mentions or reviews of Slick. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-12.
  • How many people/companies are fully on Scala 3?
    4 projects | /r/scala | 12 Jul 2023
  • First Slick prerelease for Scala 3!
    2 projects | /r/scala | 9 Jul 2023
    Made a PR on slick to document this https://github.com/slick/slick/pull/2760 (workaround is quite easy, you can just define def tupled = (apply _).tupled in the companion object of the case class and it will also compile for all Scala versions).
    2 projects | /r/scala | 9 Jul 2023
  • Sketch of a Post-ORM
    14 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 2 Jun 2023
    The Scala ecosystem has a few ways to do composable type-safe query building, e.g. Slick[0] or more recently Quill[1]. . I believe both also have ways to do compile-time string interpolation (e.g. sql"""select * from users where id = ${user.id}""") which generate prepared statements (I know Slick does prepared statements. Quill has similar macros but I haven't looked into how safe they are to use).

    [0] https://scala-slick.org/

  • Database abstraction library which allows a clean domain model
    2 projects | /r/scala | 20 Jan 2023
    With all this in mind, I landed at the first candidate: slick from https://scala-slick.org/ that you all probably know.
  • Scala 3 migration: 7 benefits that outweigh the risks
    2 projects | /r/scala | 3 Nov 2022
    I think Slick's current priority is also getting in Scala 3 support: https://github.com/slick/slick/issues/2177
  • Slick 3.4.x is here!
    3 projects | /r/scala | 18 Sep 2022
    Future releases might not be announced here. To get notified, go to https://github.com/slick/slick, click the Watch dropdown button at the top, select Custom, check Releases, and click Apply.
  • Is there any good resource for learning Slick (3.x)?
    2 projects | /r/scala | 2 Sep 2022
    https://github.com/slick/slick/pull/2097 now I use slightly lower version of slick so this might be an upgrade that resolves (I do recall using it in 21 and it was still buggy and I filed a ticket, which I cannot find at the moment), but given a complex enough query (we have one in PROD which has tons of flexibility in terms of filters that can be passed in) but it also makes for complex code.
  • Slick 3.4.0 is imminent
    2 projects | /r/scala | 16 Aug 2022
    I started writing a reply but then I realized it would be long and depends on exactly what you mean, so maybe it's better to post the question in https://github.com/slick/slick/discussions/categories/questions?
    2 projects | /r/scala | 16 Aug 2022
    You can see the draft release notes here and the upgrade guide at https://scala-slick.org/doc/prerelease/upgrade.html#upgrade-from-3-3-x-to-3-4-0. The latest docs are at https://scala-slick.org/doc/prerelease/index.html.

circe

Posts with mentions or reviews of circe. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-20.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Slick and circe you can also consider the following projects:

doobie - Functional JDBC layer for Scala.

json4s - JSON library

spray-json - A lightweight, clean and simple JSON implementation in Scala

Quill - Compile-time Language Integrated Queries for Scala

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

play-json

zio-json - Fast, secure JSON library with tight ZIO integration.

jackson-module-scala - Add-on module for Jackson (https://github.com/FasterXML/jackson) to support Scala-specific datatypes

jsoniter-scala - Scala macros for compile-time generation of safe and ultra-fast JSON codecs

argonaut - Purely functional JSON parser and library in scala.

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

Clickhouse-scala-client - Clickhouse Scala Client with Reactive Streams support