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Slick

Database query and access library for Scala
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What is 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.
Slick is a tool in the Database Tools category of a tech stack.
Slick is an open source tool with 2.6K GitHub stars and 608 GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Slick's open source repository on GitHub

Who uses Slick?

Companies
7831 companies reportedly use Slick in their tech stacks, including ROBLOX, MasterCard, and Grab.com.

Developers
1367 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Slick.

Slick Integrations

MySQL, PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL Server, SQLite, and Scala are some of the popular tools that integrate with Slick. Here's a list of all 12 tools that integrate with Slick.

Slick's Features

  • Seamless data access for your Scala application
  • Write Scala code to query your database
  • All database entities and queries are statically checked at compile-time
  • Compose query operations just as if you were using Scala's collections

Slick Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to Slick?
Quill
It is messaging for teams that focus. Designed from the ground up to make you more productive. Everything in Quill is a thread. Focus on a topic, make decisions, and stay in flow. Choose the conversations you care about and safely filter everything else, knowing that you’re not missing out.
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.
Dataform
Dataform helps you manage all data processes in your cloud data warehouse. Publish tables, write data tests and automate complex SQL workflows in a few minutes, so you can spend more time on analytics and less time managing infrastructure.
DB
With DB you can very easily save, restore, and archive snapshots of your database from the command line. It supports connecting to different database servers (for example a local development server and a staging or production server) and allows you to load a database dump from one environment into another environment.
Liquibase
Liquibase is th leading open-source tool for database schema change management. Liquibase helps teams track, version, and deploy database schema and logic changes so they can automate their database code process with their app code process.
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Slick's Followers
1170 developers follow Slick to keep up with related blogs and decisions.