Postico vs Slick: What are the differences?

Developers describe Postico as "A modern PostgreSQL client for OS X". Postico provides an easy to use interface, making Postgres more accessible for newcomers and specialists alike. Postico will look familiar to anyone who has used a Mac before. Just connect to a database and begin working with tables and views. Start with the basics and learn about advanced features of PostgreSQL as you go along. On the other hand, Slick is detailed as "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.

Postico and Slick belong to "Database Tools" category of the tech stack.

Some of the features offered by Postico are:

• Peek inside your database. Then edit as needed.
• Design a database with a sound structure.
• Query, Enquire, Investigate.

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

Slick is an open source tool with 2.27K GitHub stars and 542 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Slick's open source repository on GitHub.

orat.io, Massdrop, and SpringRole are some of the popular companies that use Slick, whereas Postico is used by JustWatch, Montemedia, and Livestorm. Slick has a broader approval, being mentioned in 7789 company stacks & 4 developers stacks; compared to Postico, which is listed in 8 company stacks and 31 developer stacks.