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Currently my favourite DB library is sqlx. Simplicity of raw queries, but safety of an orm. https://github.com/launchbadge/sqlx
Whatever you choose, presuming your app is database heavy, I highly recommend spending time on DB schema design to make all queries as short as possible, avoid relying on transactions, and keep your connection pool tiny. For reference: https://github.com/brettwooldridge/HikariCP/wiki/About-Pool-Sizing
Diesel maintains a set of benchmarks for several database libraries