Sequel Pro vs Slick: What are the differences?

Sequel Pro: MySQL database management for Mac OS X. Sequel Pro is a fast, easy-to-use Mac database management application for working with MySQL databases; Slick: Database query and access library for Scala. 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.

Sequel Pro and Slick can be primarily classified as "Database" tools.

Some of the features offered by Sequel Pro are:

• Quickly filter and paginate table content
• Fast, threaded UI
• Document based connections — Save your connection and share it

On the other hand, Slick provides the following key 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

Sequel Pro and Slick are both open source tools. Sequel Pro with 6.88K GitHub stars and 612 forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Slick with 2.27K GitHub stars and 542 GitHub forks.

According to the StackShare community, Slick has a broader approval, being mentioned in 7789 company stacks & 4 developers stacks; compared to Sequel Pro, which is listed in 61 company stacks and 160 developer stacks.