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80Health
Library npm

node-postgres

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

13,205
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.

15,339
MIT
Used by 81
90Health
Library npm

Prisma Client

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

47,610
Apache 2.0
Used by 46
72Health
Library PyPI

psycopg2

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

3,654
Other
Used by 42
94Health
Library npm

MySQL2

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

4,384
MIT
Used by 41
81Health
Library npm

better-sqlite3

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

7,484
MIT
Used by 40
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.

14,247
MIT
Used by 39
95Health
SDK PyPI

redis-py

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

13,640
MIT
Used by 39
68Health
Library Go

pq

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

9,956
MIT
Used by 39
92Health
SDK npm

@clickhouse/client

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

331
Apache 2.0
Used by 38
94Health
Library PyPI

SQLAlchemy

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

12,156
MIT
Used by 37
92Health
Library Go

go-redis

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

22,234
Other
Used by 34
82Health
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.

15,282
MPL-2.0
Used by 33
95Health
SDK npm

Node-Redis

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

17,581
MIT
Used by 32
94Health
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.

10,177
Apache 2.0
Used by 31
66Health
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.

8,725
Other
Used by 31
66Health
Library npm

knex

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

20,341
MIT
Used by 29
82Health
Library PyPI

Psycopg

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

2,493
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.

4,562
MIT
Used by 28
52Health
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.

8,088
Apache 2.0
Used by 26
86Health
Library Go

go-sqlite3

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

9,237
MIT
Used by 22
89Health
Library Cargo

rusqlite

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

4,396
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.

17,736
MIT
Used by 20
40Health
Library npm

idb

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

7,408
Other
Used by 19

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