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Skunk Alternatives
Similar projects and alternatives to skunk
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testcontainers-node
Testcontainers is a NodeJS library that supports tests, providing lightweight, throwaway instances of common databases, Selenium web browsers, or anything else that can run in a Docker container.
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toolkit
A Scala 3, lightweight and functional non-intrusive library to build typed and declarative Scala application with managed resources and dependencies (by geirolz)
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virgil
A purely functional Cassandra client built on top of the Datastax Java Driver supporting a variety of effect systems like ZIO & Cats-Effect supporting both Scala 2 & 3 (by kaizen-solutions)
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pfps-examples
:izakaya_lantern: Standalone examples shown in the book "Practical FP in Scala: A hands-on approach"
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The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives.
Hence, a higher number means a better skunk alternative or higher similarity.
skunk discussion
skunk reviews and mentions
Posts with mentions or reviews of skunk.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2026-06-08.
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Encrypting PostgreSQL Columns in Scala with skunk-crypt
skunk-crypt takes a smaller, sharper angle: encryption is just another Skunk codec. You keep writing ordinary Skunk queries; you just swap text for crypt.text. Plain values in your application, AES-256-GCM ciphertext in the database, and the key never leaves your process.
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New to Scala;
The major performance issue with Skunk is tracked here. tl;dr prepared statements currently take a horrifying number of network round-trips to the database. I'm sympathetic to Rob's "what you see is what you get" priorities for Skunk. But I'm glad to see an outline of a plan that sounds like it would satisfy those objectives without being so, for lack of a better term, naïve in their pursuit.
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Pleasant to use Scala libraries
The same creator is working on skunk, which is very exciting. Only works for Postgres though.
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Zio / Zionomicon : is it worth it ?
The libraries doobie and skunk are more closely associated with cats. They both use cats-effect and fs2 for implementing database connectiona and input-output operations. The doobie library is a wrapper on JDBC, and as such is compatible with many DBMS, such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, H2, Oracle... Whereas skunk is specific to PostgreSQL, and is based on using the server protocol of that database.
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typelevel/skunk is an open source project licensed under MIT License which is an OSI approved license.
The primary programming language of skunk is Scala.
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