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Knex.js vs Stellar: What are the differences?
What is Knex.js? SQL query builder for Postgres, MySQL, MariaDB, SQLite3, and Oracle. 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.
What is Stellar? Fast database snapshot and restore tool for development. Stellar allows you to quickly restore database when you are e.g. writing database migrations, switching branches or messing with SQL. PostgreSQL and MySQL are supported.
Knex.js and Stellar can be primarily classified as "Database" tools.
Knex.js and Stellar are both open source tools. It seems that Knex.js with 9.91K GitHub stars and 1.24K forks on GitHub has more adoption than Stellar with 3.58K GitHub stars and 108 GitHub forks.
Pros of Knex.js
- Write once and then connect to almost any sql engine11
- Faster10
- Nice api, Migrations/Seeds8
- Flexibility in what engine you choose7
- Free7
- Multi support and easy to use5
- Simple query API1