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Rest alternatives for AI agents.

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Rest

Rest serves a fully RESTful API from any SQL database

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#1

Usql

Similarity 147Trust 88Excellent 100

Universal command-line interface for SQL databases

10K starsJun 19, 2026 pushdata-analysisGoSQL
$ npx skills add xo/usql
#2

Goose

Similarity 146Trust 86Excellent 100

A database migration tool. Supports SQL migrations and Go functions.

11K starsJun 20, 2026 pushdata-analysisGoSQL
$ npx skills add pressly/goose
#3

Sea Orm

Similarity 141Trust 89Excellent 100

🐚 A powerful relational ORM for Rust

9.7K starsJun 18, 2026 pushdata-analysisRustSQL
$ npx skills add SeaQL/sea-orm
#4

Mysql

Similarity 140Trust 90Excellent 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
#5

Drizzle Orm

Similarity 135Trust 90Excellent 100

ORM

35K starsJun 20, 2026 pushdata-analysisTypeScriptSQL
$ npx skills add drizzle-team/drizzle-orm
#6

Postgrest

Similarity 134Trust 88Excellent 100

REST API for any Postgres database

27K starsJun 20, 2026 pushdata-analysisHaskellSQL
$ npx skills add PostgREST/postgrest
#7

Timescaledb

Similarity 134Trust 89Excellent 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
#8

Sqlx

Similarity 134Trust 92Excellent 100

🧰 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
#9

Citus

Similarity 133Trust 90Excellent 100

Distributed PostgreSQL as an extension

13K starsJun 18, 2026 pushdata-analysisCSQL
$ npx skills add citusdata/citus
#10

Tidb

Similarity 133Trust 92Excellent 100

TiDB is built for agentic workloads that grow unpredictably, with ACID guarantees and native support for transactions, analytics, and vector search. No data silos. No noisy neighbors. No infrastructure ceiling.

40K starsJun 20, 2026 pushdata-analysisGoSQL
$ npx skills add pingcap/tidb
#11

Kysely

Similarity 133Trust 88Excellent 100

A type-safe TypeScript SQL query builder

14K starsJun 19, 2026 pushdata-analysisTypeScriptSQL
$ npx skills add kysely-org/kysely
#12

Cockroach

Similarity 133Trust 89Excellent 100

CockroachDB — 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
#13

Rqlite

Similarity 132Trust 92Excellent 100

The lightweight, fault-tolerant database built on SQLite. Designed to keep your data highly available with minimal effort.

18K starsJun 21, 2026 pushdata-analysisGoSQL
$ npx skills add rqlite/rqlite
#14

Sqlc

Similarity 132Trust 90Excellent 100

Generate type-safe code from SQL

18K starsJun 19, 2026 pushdata-analysisGoSQL
$ npx skills add sqlc-dev/sqlc
#15

Dbeaver

Similarity 127Trust 90Excellent 100

Free universal database tool and SQL client

51K starsJun 20, 2026 pushdata-analysisJavaSQL
$ npx skills add dbeaver/dbeaver
#16

ClickHouse

Similarity 127Trust 90Excellent 100

ClickHouse® is a real-time analytics database management system

48K starsJun 21, 2026 pushdata-analysisC++SQL
$ npx skills add ClickHouse/ClickHouse

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