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- FastAPI, Pydantic, Psycopg3: the holy trinity for Python web APIs
asyncpg: this was the gold standard async database driver for Postgres, being one of the first to market and most performant. While all other drivers use the C library libpq to interface with Postgres, MagicStack opted to rewrite their own custom implementation and also deviate from Python DBAPI spec. If performance is your main criteria here, then asyncpg is probably the best option.
- Psycopg 3.2 released – PostgreSQL driver for Python
If you are operating in an environment with asyncio check out asyncpg - https://github.com/MagicStack/asyncpg
Performance charts speak for themselves. This lib uses the binary protocol while most are using text based comms.
- PyPy has been working for me for several years now
- Ask HN: Is Python async/await some kind of joke?
- SqlAlchemy/asyncpg => you can’t use it if you’re using PgBouncer (necessary most of the time with Postgres) in transaction mode? What?? https://github.com/MagicStack/asyncpg/issues/1058
- Differences from Psycopg2
OK I stand corrected, asyncpg has these two C files:
https://github.com/MagicStack/asyncpg/blob/master/asyncpg/pr...
https://github.com/MagicStack/asyncpg/blob/master/asyncpg/pr...
If you are interested here is a post by the psycopg author about psycopg2 and 3 and performance versus asyncpg.
https://www.varrazzo.com/blog/2020/05/19/a-trip-into-optimis...
- Asyncpg – A Fast PostgreSQL Database Client Library for Python/Asyncio
- Ruby Outperforms C: Breaking the Catch-22
This pure Python library claims quite fabulous performance: https://github.com/MagicStack/asyncpg
I believe it because that team have done lots of great stuff but I haven't used it, I just remembered thinking it was interesting the performance was so good. Not sure how related it is to running on the asyncio loop (or which loop they used for benchmarks).
- PgBouncer is useful, important, and fraught with peril
- Library to connect Python to Postgresql
asyncpg is another great driver if you're using asyncio and want maximum performance (although they also break with DBAPI, but the tradeoff may be worth it).
- aiopg vs asyncpg vs psycopg3
asyncpg: 5.5k starts, last commit recently, ~150 issues, some incompatibility, few open PRs, extensive README. Includes benchmark showing it's supposedly 3x faster than aiopg and psycopg2, psycopg3 is not mentioned in the benchmark.
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MagicStack/asyncpg is an open source project licensed under Apache License 2.0 which is an OSI approved license.
The primary programming language of asyncpg is Python.
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