Top 23 Go Database Driver Projects

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1. Redis

   1 40 22,127 9.3 Go

   Redis Go client

   

   Project mention: War Story: We Survived a 2-Hour Outage with Redis 8.0 Cluster and Sentinel | dev.to | 2026-05-02

   Redis 8.0’s default Sentinel election timeout of 500ms is tuned for single-region deployments with sub-10ms inter-node latency. For any cluster spanning multiple regions, cloud availability zones, or with more than 10 shards, this default is dangerously low. Our outage was directly caused by Sentinel nodes in us-west-2 (68ms RTT from us-east-1) missing election heartbeats due to the 500ms timeout, triggering false failovers that cascaded across the cluster. Always benchmark your election timeout against your actual network latency: use the go-redis client to measure RTT between Sentinel nodes, then set election-timeout to at least 4x the maximum RTT between any two Sentinels. For our 68ms RTT, 4x is 272ms, but we set 2000ms to add headroom for network jitter during peak traffic. This single change eliminated 14 false failovers per month. Always validate timeout changes with the benchmark tool from Code Example 3 before rolling to production.

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3. sqlx

   2 80 17,616 3.3 Go

   general purpose extensions to golang's database/sql

   

   Project mention: MERN Stack Alternatives in Golang | dev.to | 2025-09-22

   sqlx: Extensions to Go's standard database/sql library for easier database interactions.

4. go-sql-driver/mysql

   3 20 15,244 4.6 Go

   Go MySQL Driver is a MySQL driver for Go's (golang) database/sql package (by go-sql-driver)

   

5. cayley

   4 1 15,043 0.0 Go

   An open-source graph database

   

6. pgx

   5 78 13,890 9.2 Go

   PostgreSQL driver and toolkit for Go

   

   Project mention: PgX – Debug Postgres performance in the context of your application code | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-01-09

7. bleve

   6 16 11,095 8.3 Go

   A modern text/numeric/geo-spatial/vector indexing library for go

   

   Project mention: Show HN: I Wrote a Full Text Search Engine from Scratch in Go | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-10-09

   Would love to hear how this compares to another popular go based full text search engine (with a not too dissimilar name) https://github.com/blevesearch/bleve?

8. pq

   7 31 9,897 9.1 Go

   Go PostgreSQL driver for database/sql

   

   Project mention: Go is portable, until it isn't | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-12-12

   > anything that depends on Go's Postgres client requires libpq which requires libc

   Try https://github.com/lib/pq

9. redigo

   8 5 9,861 4.2 Go

   Go client for Redis

   

10. mongo-go-driver

    9 17 8,521 9.4 Go

    The Official Golang driver for MongoDB

    

    Project mention: MERN Stack Alternatives in Golang | dev.to | 2025-09-22

    MongoDB Go Driver: The official MongoDB driver for Golang, allowing you to interact with MongoDB databases.

11. elastic

    10 21 7,457 4.2 Go

    Deprecated: Use the official Elasticsearch client for Go at https://github.com/elastic/go-elasticsearch

    

12. go-elasticsearch

    11 17 6,051 7.9 Go

    The official Go client for Elasticsearch

    

    Project mention: Como criar uma "busca inteligente" para seu Wiki utilizando Go e ElasticSearch | dev.to | 2025-10-21

    Web Server Go Elasticsearch client Documentação Oficial do Elasticsearch JSON Handling in Go Type Assertions in Go

13. clickhouse-go

    12 2 3,299 9.5 Go

    Golang driver for ClickHouse

    

14. gocql

    13 1 2,684 7.3 Go

    GoCQL Driver for Apache Cassandra®

    

15. go-mssqldb

    14 5 1,883 0.0 Go

    Microsoft SQL server driver written in go language

    

16. gomemcache

    15 4 1,867 3.6 Go

    Go Memcached client library #golang

    

17. gorethink

    16 0 1,648 2.3 Go

    Go language driver for RethinkDB

    

18. qmgo

    17 1 1,353 3.7 Go

    Qmgo - The Go driver for MongoDB. It‘s based on official mongo-go-driver but easier to use like Mgo.

    

19. elasticsql

    18 0 1,194 3.6 Go

    convert sql to elasticsearch DSL in golang(go)

    

20. elastigo

    19 0 941 0.0 Go

    A Go (golang) based Elasticsearch client library.

    

21. mgm

    20 1 764 0.0 Go

    Mongo Go Models (mgm) is a fast and simple MongoDB ODM for Go (based on official Mongo Go Driver) (by Kamva)

    

22. go-oci8

    21 1 632 0.0 Go

    Oracle driver for Go using database/sql

    

23. Sqinn-Go

    22 8 531 6.5 Go

    Golang SQLite without cgo

    

24. aerospike-client-go

    23 0 459 8.9 Go

    Aerospike Client Go

    

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