Squirrel Alternatives

Squirrel reviews and mentions

• DumbQL: A Simplified Query Language for Go Applications
  2 projects | dev.to | 21 Mar 2025

  DumbQL works with squirrel or directly with SQL drivers:

• Maintainable SQL Query Building with Golang
  2 projects | dev.to | 15 Aug 2024

  Before we built tqla, we mainly used Squirrel for our SQL query building logic—and we highly recommend it. We still use Squirrel in some areas but have gradually started replacing and implementing new query building logic with tqla. We have found many instances where tqla has improved our ability to maintain our code and fix problems we ran into when using other statement builders.

• Building RESTful API with Hexagonal Architecture in Go
  21 projects | dev.to | 27 Sep 2023

  It uses Gin as the HTTP framework and PostgreSQL as the database with pgx as the driver and Squirrel as the query builder. It also utilizes Redis as the caching layer with go-redis as the client.

• Working with postgres in GO.
  2 projects | /r/golang | 3 Jul 2023

  I would add Squirrel to PGX https://github.com/Masterminds/squirrel

• how to avoid writing dreadful SQL statements
  4 projects | /r/golang | 23 May 2023

  I have written about this before, and my thoughts always settle on using a query builder. I've built a simple one, which works for what I need, but there are more feature complete ones out there such as squirrel. I've also written about how you can implement a simple CRUD library for database interactions using generics and query building to have that nice middle-ground between an ORM and query building.

• How do I enable filters for the user without writing redundant SQL?
  1 project | /r/golang | 15 May 2023

  Now for the dynamic queries you have to be really careful to prevent SQL injections, there are bunch of different ways to do it but I typically recommend using a package such as squirrel that lets you do this easily, you use it to generate the plain SQL you need (and then use sqlx, database/sql, pgx or whatever you prefer) or use it directly querying the database directly.

• Best sqlc alternative for dynamic queries?
  8 projects | /r/golang | 15 May 2023

  Here are 2 options for you * https://github.com/huandu/go-sqlbuilder * https://github.com/Masterminds/squirrel

• Golang RESTAPI boilerplate repository
  7 projects | /r/golang | 2 May 2023

  https://www.reddit.com/r/golang/comments/vq98ud/what_sql_library_are_you_using/ Jet havn't used but is one that looks promising! Otherwise I'm one of the purests, db/sql and https://github.com/Masterminds/squirrel

• Why is Raw SQL preferred over ORM in go?
  7 projects | /r/golang | 15 Apr 2023

  I think he means an sql builder like squirrel. This allows dynamic queries, but more important you can reuse function that build a where clause so you can get a count and query with that.

• Does Go, has something similar to Laravel eloquent (ORM) ?
  7 projects | /r/golang | 11 Apr 2023

  I'd rather suggest the use of tools more aligned with the core concepts of the language such as sqlx, which is an extension of the database/sql standard library. It allows you to use models/structs to map your tables but you have more control over the SQL statements you use to perform queries and the like. You can combine sqlx with Squirrel to build queries from composable parts.

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