Packages

Database Drivers & Clients Packages

Low-level database drivers and client libraries for connecting applications directly to relational and document databases (node-postgres, pq, MySQL, MongoDB).

200 packages

Packages in Database Drivers & Clients

79Health
Library npm

node-postgres

Non-blocking PostgreSQL client for Node.js with pure JavaScript and native libpq bindings.

13,225
MIT
Used by 120
93Health
Library npm

ioredis

A robust, full-featured Redis client for Node.js with built-in Cluster, Sentinel, and TypeScript support.

15,347
MIT
Used by 81
91Health
Library npm

Prisma Client

Auto-generated, type-safe database client for Node.js and TypeScript.

47,662
Apache 2.0
Used by 46
94Health
Library PyPI

SQLAlchemy

The Python SQL toolkit and Object Relational Mapper that gives developers the full power and flexibility of SQL.

12,262
MIT
Used by 43
70Health
Library PyPI

psycopg2

The most popular PostgreSQL database adapter for Python, implementing the full DB API 2.0 specification.

3,657
Other
Used by 42
94Health
Library npm

MySQL2

Fast, pure-JavaScript MySQL client for Node.js with prepared statements, promises, and pooling.

4,391
MIT
Used by 41
84Health
Library Go

pgx v4

A pure Go PostgreSQL driver and toolkit that goes beyond database/sql with binary-format performance and Postgres-specific features.

14,352
MIT
Used by 40
70Health
Library npm

better-sqlite3

The fastest and simplest SQLite3 library for Node.js, with a synchronous API and full transaction support.

7,525
MIT
Used by 40
95Health
SDK PyPI

redis-py

The official Python client for Redis, with sync, asyncio, cluster, and Sentinel support.

13,652
MIT
Used by 39
63Health
Library Go

pq

A pure Go PostgreSQL driver for Go's standard database/sql package.

9,967
MIT
Used by 39
91Health
SDK npm

@clickhouse/client

The official TypeScript client for connecting Node.js applications to ClickHouse over HTTP.

329
Apache 2.0
Used by 38
91Health
Library Go

go-redis

The official, idiomatic Go client for Redis — connection pooling, Cluster, Sentinel, pipelines, and client-side caching built in.

22,275
Other
Used by 34
85Health
Library Go

Go-MySQL-Driver

A pure Go implementation of the MySQL wire protocol, used as the database/sql driver for MySQL, MariaDB, and TiDB.

15,275
MPL-2.0
Used by 33
95Health
SDK npm

Node-Redis

The official, high-performance TypeScript client for Redis in Node.js.

17,589
MIT
Used by 32
93Health
Library npm

node-mongodb-native

The official MongoDB driver for Node.js: a typed, promise-based client for connecting to and querying MongoDB from JavaScript and TypeScript.

10,171
Apache 2.0
Used by 31
62Health
Library npm

postgres

Postgres.js is a zero-dependency PostgreSQL client for Node.js, Deno, Bun, and Cloudflare Workers built on ES6 tagged template literals.

8,734
Other
Used by 31
55Health
Library npm

knex

A flexible, portable SQL query builder for Node.js supporting PostgreSQL, MySQL, CockroachDB, SQL Server, SQLite3, and Oracle.

20,339
MIT
Used by 29
80Health
Library PyPI

Psycopg

The modern PostgreSQL adapter for Python, with native async and pipeline support

2,512
Other
Used by 29
95Health
SDK npm

supabase-js

The official isomorphic JavaScript SDK for Supabase — database, auth, realtime, storage, and edge functions in one client.

4,598
MIT
Used by 28
85Health
Library PyPI

asyncpg

A fast PostgreSQL database client library for Python built directly on asyncio, implementing the PostgreSQL binary wire protocol natively for high-throughput async applications.

8,112
Apache 2.0
Used by 26
84Health
Library Go

go-sqlite3

A self-contained CGO driver that brings SQLite3 to Go's standard database/sql interface.

9,260
MIT
Used by 22
88Health
Library Cargo

rusqlite

An ergonomic, safe Rust wrapper around SQLite with typed rows and prepared statement caching.

4,446
MIT
Used by 21
49Health
Library Go

sqlx

General-purpose extensions to Go's database/sql, adding struct scanning, named queries, and more without breaking compatibility.

17,738
MIT
Used by 20
56Health
Library npm

idb

A tiny, promise-based wrapper around IndexedDB that keeps the native API but drops the event-listener boilerplate.

7,429
Other
Used by 19

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