What is Knex.js?
Knex.js is a "batteries included" SQL query builder for Postgres, MySQL, MariaDB, SQLite3, and Oracle designed to be flexible, portable, and fun to use. It features both traditional node style callbacks as well as a promise interface for cleaner async flow control, a stream interface, full featured query and schema builders, transaction support (with savepoints), connection pooling and standardized responses between different query clients and dialects.
Knex.js is a tool in the Database Tools category of a tech stack.
Knex.js is an open source tool with GitHub stars and GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Knex.js's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses Knex.js?
Companies
36 companies reportedly use Knex.js in their tech stacks, including Voiceflow, Finema, and Backend.
Developers
137 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Knex.js.
Knex.js Integrations
MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Oracle, and IndexedDB are some of the popular tools that integrate with Knex.js. Here's a list of all 9 tools that integrate with Knex.js.
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Knex.js's Features
- SQL query builder for Postgres, MySQL, MariaDB, SQLite3, and Oracle
Knex.js Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Knex.js?
Sequelize
Sequelize is a promise-based ORM for Node.js and io.js. It supports the dialects PostgreSQL, MySQL,
MariaDB, SQLite and MSSQL and features solid transaction support, relations, read replication and
more.
Slick
It is a modern database query and access library for Scala. It allows you to work with stored data almost as if you were using Scala collections while at the same time giving you full control over when a database access happens and which data is transferred.
Spring Data
It makes it easy to use data access technologies, relational and non-relational databases, map-reduce frameworks, and cloud-based data services. This is an umbrella project which contains many subprojects that are specific to a given database.
DataGrip
A cross-platform IDE that is aimed at DBAs and developers working with SQL databases.
DBeaver
It is a free multi-platform database tool for developers, SQL programmers, database administrators and analysts. Supports all popular databases: MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Oracle, DB2, SQL Server, Sybase, Teradata, MongoDB, Cassandra, Redis, etc.
