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Practical Sql 2 alternatives for AI agents.

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Practical Sql 2

Code and Data for the Second Edition of "Practical SQL" by Anthony DeBarros, published by No Starch Press.

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#1

Knex

Similarity 134Trust 88Excellent 100

A query builder for PostgreSQL, MySQL, CockroachDB, SQL Server, SQLite3 and Oracle, designed to be flexible, portable, and fun to use.

20K starsJun 17, 2026 pushdata-analysisJavaScriptSQL
$ npx skills add knex/knex
#2

Duckdb

Similarity 127Trust 87Excellent 100

DuckDB is an analytical in-process SQL database management system

39K starsJun 20, 2026 pushdata-analysisC++SQL
$ npx skills add duckdb/duckdb
#3

Drizzle Orm

Similarity 127Trust 87Excellent 100

ORM

35K starsJun 20, 2026 pushdata-analysisTypeScriptSQL
$ npx skills add drizzle-team/drizzle-orm
#4

Cockroach

Similarity 126Trust 85Excellent 100

CockroachDB โ€” the cloud native, distributed SQL database designed for high availability, effortless scale, and control over data placement.

32K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdata-analysisGoSQL
$ npx skills add cockroachdb/cockroach
#5

Flink

Similarity 126Trust 87Excellent 100

Apache Flink

26K starsJun 20, 2026 pushdata-analysisJavaSQL
$ npx skills add apache/flink
#6

Mybatis 3

Similarity 126Trust 87Excellent 100

MyBatis SQL mapper framework for Java

20K starsJun 19, 2026 pushdata-analysisJavaSQL
$ npx skills add mybatis/mybatis-3
#7

Turso

Similarity 126Trust 87Excellent 100

Turso is an in-process SQL database, compatible with SQLite.

20K starsJun 20, 2026 pushdata-analysisRustSQL
$ npx skills add tursodatabase/turso
#8

Sqlmodel

Similarity 126Trust 88Excellent 100

SQL databases in Python, designed for simplicity, compatibility, and robustness.

18K starsJun 18, 2026 pushdata-analysisPythonSQL
$ npx skills add fastapi/sqlmodel
#9

Timescaledb

Similarity 126Trust 85Excellent 100

A time-series database for high-performance real-time analytics packaged as a Postgres extension

23K starsJun 20, 2026 pushdata-analysisCSQL
$ npx skills add timescale/timescaledb
#10

Sqlx

Similarity 126Trust 88Excellent 100

๐Ÿงฐ The Rust SQL Toolkit. An async, pure Rust SQL crate featuring compile-time checked queries without a DSL. Supports PostgreSQL, MySQL, and SQLite.

17K starsJun 11, 2026 pushdata-analysisRustSQL
$ npx skills add transact-rs/sqlx
#11

Sqlc

Similarity 126Trust 87Excellent 100

Generate type-safe code from SQL

18K starsJun 19, 2026 pushdata-analysisGoSQL
$ npx skills add sqlc-dev/sqlc
#12

Osquery

Similarity 125Trust 83Excellent 100

SQL powered operating system instrumentation, monitoring, and analytics.

23K starsJun 19, 2026 pushdata-analysisC++SQL
$ npx skills add osquery/osquery
#13

Mysql

Similarity 125Trust 87Excellent 100

Go MySQL Driver is a MySQL driver for Go's (golang) database/sql package

15K starsJun 13, 2026 pushdata-analysisGoSQL
$ npx skills add go-sql-driver/mysql
#14

Prql

Similarity 125Trust 88Excellent 100

PRQL is a modern language for transforming data โ€” a simple, powerful, pipelined SQL replacement

11K starsJun 20, 2026 pushdata-analysisRustSQL
$ npx skills add PRQL/prql
#15

Sqlalchemy

Similarity 125Trust 87Excellent 100

The Database Toolkit for Python

12K starsJun 18, 2026 pushdata-analysisPythonSQL
$ npx skills add sqlalchemy/sqlalchemy
#16

Sqlfluff

Similarity 124Trust 88Excellent 99

A modular SQL linter and auto-formatter with support for multiple dialects and templated code.

9.8K starsJun 19, 2026 pushdata-analysisPythonSQL
$ npx skills add sqlfluff/sqlfluff

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