Usql Alternatives

usql reviews and mentions

• Why is database support in every language bad?
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 2 Mar 2025

  frameworks / ORM are just specilized database graphical user interface front ends designed to simplify how data is displayed/inputed

  Database management systems usually provide a way of importing/exporting 'raw' data via sql statement(s) results. aka cvs, comma delimited, html formatted, json formatted, etc. aka do command line sql query with 'html formatted output' and open results of file in a brower.

  postgres psql provides an interactive 'cli' environment; windows sql server - sqlcmd;

  usql[1] provides something similar to psql for no-sql databases.

  sqlc is sorta the equivalent of combining the command line shell & sql queries. SQLx rust is rust extention for handling 'sql from command line, just via rust language, instead of going through command line shell.'

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  [1] : https://github.com/xo/usql

• Usql: Universal command-line interface for SQL databases
  3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 16 Nov 2024

  It seems to support quite a large number of database drivers. If file size is such a concern you could recompile it with unneeded drivers omitted.

  https://github.com/xo/usql?tab=readme-ov-file#building

• JetBrains DataGrip doesn't accept JSON1 data type
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 15 Jun 2024

  Does JSON1 data type works fine with usql [1]? I haven't use it yet.

  [1] https://github.com/xo/usql

• Dblab: Interactive Terminal Client for PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite3 and Oracle
  6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 6 Jun 2024

  https://github.com/xo/usql has a similar feel to it, with a variety of backends.

• From GUI to CLI: Transforming my query workflow with usql and jq
  2 projects | dev.to | 15 May 2024

  Since some of the databases I was interacting were postgres, I started to play around with psql. It felt amazing, it had a great integration with the terminal, no visual pollution, I could also use vim as my query editor, and it was blazing fast. The problem was that only some of the databases I was interacting were postgres. I needed something that could connect to multiple databases, something universal, so I don't have to invest time in new tooling all the time. So I searched on github "universal sql" and I felt in love with usql.

• xo/usql: Universal command-line interface for SQL databases
  1 project | /r/devel | 8 Jun 2023
• Usql – Universal command-line interface for SQL databases
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 30 Dec 2022
• PRQL a simple, powerful, pipelined SQL replacement
  19 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 29 Dec 2022

  Also all languages has an query-builder / ORM so the benefit of something like PRQL is possibly not big enough to merit it as an additional dependency.

  My suggestion:

  Make PRQL a cli tool that can be used by allowing users to connect to a database in a similar fashion as something like usql (https://github.com/xo/usql),

• Is there a CLI interface to browse SQL databases?
  3 projects | /r/commandline | 10 Aug 2022

  take a look at: https://github.com/xo/usql

• New Open source Go projects looking for contributors
  12 projects | /r/golang | 24 Jul 2022

  https://github.com/xo/usql has some good first issues

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