Top 14 Go Relational Database Projects

sqlx

1 73 16,838 3.3 Go

general purpose extensions to golang's database/sql

Project mention: Goravel: A Go framework inspired by Laravel | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-03-09
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go-sql-driver/mysql

2 20 14,739 7.5 Go

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

Project mention: HTMX + Go : Build a CRUD App with Golang and HTMX | dev.to | 2024-07-15

Next, we need to install some dependencies. We already know we are using MySQL as our database, thus, we need to install the MySQL driver for Golang.
pgx

3 73 11,649 9.1 Go

PostgreSQL driver and toolkit for Go

Project mention: Go zerolog setup with pgx | dev.to | 2025-04-20

https://github.com/jackc/pgx/pull/2098 <- say thanks ❤️
pq

4 29 9,417 2.5 Go

Pure Go Postgres driver for database/sql

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go-mssqldb

5 5 1,849 0.0 Go

Microsoft SQL server driver written in go language
go-oci8

6 1 633 0.0 Go

Oracle driver for Go using database/sql
Sqinn-Go

7 8 443 5.5 Go

Golang SQLite without cgo
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firebirdsql

8 0 236 8.0 Go

Firebird RDBMS sql driver for Go (golang)
go-adodb

9 0 148 0.0 Go

Microsoft ActiveX Object DataBase driver for go that using exp/sql
gofreetds

10 0 113 0.0 Go

Go Sql Server database driver.
SamehadaDB

11 0 63 8.3 Go

Simple Relational Database Management System Implementation in Golang
vertica-sql-go

12 0 62 4.8 Go

Official native Go client for the Vertica Analytics Database.
bgc

13 0 21 3.5 Go

Datastore Connectivity for BigQuery in go (by viant)
pig

14 0 17 4.3 Go

Simple pgx wrapper to execute and scan query results (by alexeyco)
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NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).

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Index

What are some of the best open-source Relational Database projects in Go? This list will help you:

#	Project	Stars
1	sqlx	16,838
2	go-sql-driver/mysql	14,739
3	pgx	11,649
4	pq	9,417
5	go-mssqldb	1,849
6	go-oci8	633
7	Sqinn-Go	443
8	firebirdsql	236
9	go-adodb	148
10	gofreetds	113
11	SamehadaDB	63
12	vertica-sql-go	62
13	bgc	21
14	pig	17