Awesome SQLx (Rust)

SQLx is an async, pure Rust SQL crate featuring compile-time checked queries without a DSL.

Most recent version (at the time we checked) was 0.8.6

See SQLx in GitHub

The SQLx Ecosystem

📺 Upcoming events

• 2026.05.12 Introduction to SQLx live online.

📖 Tutorials, articles

• Documentation
• Dataform SQLX
  • A Beginner's Guide to SQLX: Getting Started
• Introduction to SQLx (sqlx 0.8)
• 2026.02.20 SQLx Tutorial: Type-Safe SQL in Rust Without an ORM

📦 Crates

• sqlx
• sqlx-cli
• sea-orm Object-Relational Mappings (ORM)
• sea-query
• r2d2 Connection Pools
• postgres Database Driver

📦 Projects

• realworld-axum-sqlx Demo application (sqlx 0.5)
• Axium An example API built with Rust, Axum, SQLx, and PostgreSQL. (sqlx 0.8.4)
• sqlx-data Zero-boilerplate Repository Pattern for SQLx — type-safe query repositories via proc macros, with pagination, streaming, batch operations and more

📋 Lists

• GitHub topic: SQLx language: Rust
• Search sqlx and language:Rust on GitHub

📺 Videos

• 2025.11.14 Rust Rest API - Part 2: Database Connection Using SQLx & Connection Pooling by DrSimple (25:26)
• 2025.10.16 Rust REST API Tutorial: Axum, SQLx, Postgres & Docker by Francesco Ciulla (33:51)
• 2025.08.04 🚀 Connect to MySQL with Rust in 2025! 🦀📦 | Step-by-Step Async Setup with sqlx by Technical Rajni (4:53) (sqlx 0.8.6)
• 2025.02.28 Rust | sqlx | SQLite | Tutorial by Mike Code (7:36)
• 2024.08.28 Rust + Next-Gen SQL Databases = 😍 by Code to the Moon (13:52) It is mostly about YugabyteDB and CockroachDB. Starts talking about SQLx at 3:09.
• 2023.06.20 Learn Rust SQLX on Postgres by David Choi (27:06)
• 2023.05.05 SQLx is my favorite PostgreSQL driver to use with Rust by Dreams of Code (9:46) (sqlx 0.6)
• 2023.01.04 How to use SQLx with Actix Web by Marc Empunkt (41:36) (sqlx 0.6.2)
• 2022.11.08 MUST know Rust database libraries by Let's Get Rusty (5:49) - Mentioning 7 crates: Database Drivers, Object-Relational Mappings (ORMs), Connection Pools - postgres, sled, sqlx, diesel, sea-orm, sea-query, r2d2