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GoSQLX vs The Competition

See how GoSQLX compares to other Go SQL parsing libraries

FeatureGoSQLXpg_query_govitess-sqlparsersqlparser (xwb1989)
LanguageGoGo (C via CGo)GoGo
Ops/sec1.38M+~340K~560K~220K
Memory/op~800B~12KB~4KB~2KB
Zero-copy
Dialects81 (PostgreSQL)1 (MySQL)1 (MySQL)
CGo required
WASM support
SQL injection detection
MCP server
SQL formatting
SQL linting (30 rules)
LSP server
Thread-safe
Active maintenance

Performance Comparison

Operations per second parsing a standard SELECT query (higher is better)

GoSQLX1.38M ops/sec
vitess-sqlparser560K ops/sec
pg_query_go340K ops/sec
sqlparser (xwb1989)220K ops/sec

Benchmarked on Apple Silicon with Go 1.26+, object pooling enabled, race detector off. Results averaged over 5 runs.

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