| beam | elephants | |
|---|---|---|
| 5 | 4 | |
| 571 | 23 | |
| -0.2% | - | |
| 4.0 | 4.6 | |
| 5 days ago | 7 months ago | |
| Haskell | Haskell | |
| MIT License | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
beam
Posts with mentions or reviews of beam.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-10-02.
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How to use PostgreSQL with Haskell: beam
Beam “is a highly-general library for accessing any kind of database with Haskell”. Beam makes extensive use of GHC's Generics mechanism — no Template Haskell.
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How can database libraries be compared to each other?
One anecdotal opinion from a rando reddit user: I prefer beam despite the boilerplate and more complex types because of the authors make a serious attempt at sql-standards compliance: https://github.com/haskell-beam/beam
- A more functional approach
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Haskell sql multi-engine library
It's actively worked on: https://github.com/haskell-beam/beam Makes heavy use of the type level though.
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Reflections On Using Haskell For My Startup
The beam library is one example of this: https://github.com/haskell-beam/beam/pulls
elephants
Posts with mentions or reviews of elephants.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-10-03.
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How to use PostgreSQL with Haskell: hasql
💡 Remember that you can see the complete code in the repo.
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How to use PostgreSQL with Haskell. Elephantine library review 2023
💡 If you want to follow allow at home, the repository contains all the imports and data types — we omit most of them from the tutorial for simplicity.
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How to use PostgreSQL with Haskell: beam
All the other tables look quite similar; see the repo for the rest of the boilerplate. One interesting bit is foreign keys / referencing other primary keys; for example, product_id and category_id in the mapping table look like are defined as PrimaryKey ProductT f (not Columnar f Int64):
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How to use PostgreSQL with Haskell: rel8
See the repo for the rest of the boilerplate.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing beam and elephants you can also consider the following projects:
mywatch
hasql-pool - A pool of connections for Hasql
squeal-postgresql - Squeal, a deep embedding of SQL in Haskell
contravariant-extras - Extras for the "contravariant" package
yxdb-utils - Utilities for parsing Alteryx Database format
hasql-transaction - A composable abstraction over retriable transactions for Hasql
hocilib - A lightweight Haskell binding to the OCILIB C API
profunctors - Haskell 98 Profunctors
positron - Experiment
hasql-th - Template Haskell utilities for Hasql
DSH - Database-Supported Haskell
esqueleto - Bare bones, type-safe EDSL for SQL queries on persistent backends.