# jOOQ vs Kysely

**Leader by Vioscale score:** Kysely

| Attribute | jOOQ | Kysely |
|---|---|---|
| **Vioscale score** | 60.3 (39% (low)) | 70.3 (79% (high)) |
| activity.commits_last_30d | 19 | 25 |
| adoption.dependent_repos | 4,667 | 1,155 |
| adoption.github_stars | 6,777 | 14,168 |
| adoption.package_downloads_weekly | - | 14,615,271 |
| deployment.options | - | `{"cloud":true,"self_hosted":true}` |
| description.long | jOOQ creates Java code based on your database structure, enabling developers to write SQL queries with compile-time type checking. It supports multiple database backends and abstracts SQL dialect differences while preserving direct control over SQL generation. | A JavaScript and TypeScript SQL query builder that provides compile-time type safety and database schema validation. It works across multiple runtimes (Node, Deno, Bun, Cloudflare Workers, browsers) with zero runtime dependencies and emphasizes composable, type-safe queries over higher-level abstractions. |
| features.capabilities | `{"raw_sql":true,"multi_db":true,"languages":"Java","relations":true,"migrations":false,"studio_gui":false,"schema_first":true,"type_safe_queries":true,"connection_pooling":false}` | `{"raw_sql":true,"multi_db":true,"languages":"TypeScript, JavaScript (Node, Deno, Bun, Cloudflare Workers, browsers)","relations":true,"migrations":false,"studio_gui":false,"schema_first":true,"type_safe_queries":true,"connection_pooling":false}` |
| integrations.count | - | 21 |
| integrations.list | - | `[{"name":"Supabase"},{"name":"Cursor"},{"name":"Windsurf"},{"name":"GitHub Copilot"},{"name":"ChatGPT"},{"name":"Claude"},{"name":"Claude Code"},{"name":"AirTrail"},{"name":"AWS Blocks"},{"name":"Conar"},{"name":"EmbedPDF"},{"name":"Hot Updater"},{"name":"inlang"},{"name":"Notesnook"},{"name":"OpenClaw"},{"name":"Reflect"},{"name":"Sink"},{"name":"Stacks"},{"name":"StudioCMS"},{"name":"Tunarr"},{"name":"ZenStack"}]` |
| language.primary | Java | TypeScript |
| license.spdx | - | MIT |
| market.availability | `{"hqCountry":"CH","primaryMarkets":[],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` | - |
| platform.support | - | `{"cli":true,"web":true}` |
| pricing | `{"type":"subscription","plans":[{"free":true,"name":"Open Source","summary":"Free unlimited use","features":["Support for ClickHouse, Derby, DuckDB, Firebird, H2, HSQLDB, MariaDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Trino, YugabyteDB"],"components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":0,"period":"year","currency":"EUR"}],"description":"Unlimited use for open source database support","contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Professional","summary":"€99/developer workstation/year","features":["Ongoing maintenance and support","Oracle Express Edition 18c+","SQL Server Express Edition 2012+","Microsoft Access 2013+"],"commitment":"annual","components":[{"kind":"per_unit","unit":"developer workstation","amount":99,"period":"year","currency":"EUR"}],"description":"For small to medium companies supporting Oracle, SQL Server, MS Access","contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Professional Plus","summary":"€399/developer workstation/year","features":["Advanced jOOQ features","Versioned RDBMS support","Versioned Java support","Premium support"],"commitment":"annual","components":[{"kind":"per_unit","unit":"developer workstation","amount":399,"period":"year","currency":"EUR"}],"description":"Advanced features with versioned RDBMS and Java support","contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Enterprise","summary":"€799/developer workstation/year","features":["Premium support","Amazon Redshift, Aurora, Azure SQL, CockroachDB, BigQuery, Databricks, DB2, Exasol, HANA, Informix, Snowflake, Spanner, Sybase, Teradata, Vertica"],"commitment":"annual","components":[{"kind":"per_unit","unit":"developer workstation","amount":799,"period":"year","currency":"EUR"}],"description":"Premium support for large companies with extensive enterprise database support","contactSales":false}],"summary":"From €99/developer workstation/year. Free open source edition. 30-day free trials. Monthly and unlimited pricing available.","currency":"EUR","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.jooq.org","retrievedAt":"2026-08-14T08:33:44.761Z","freeTrialDays":30,"startingPrice":{"amount":99,"period":"month","currency":"EUR"},"billingPeriods":["month","year"]}` | `{"type":"open_source","summary":"Completely free and open source (MIT license)","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://kysely.dev","retrievedAt":"2026-08-14T08:37:15.404Z"}` |
| pricing.free_tier | yes | yes |
| pricing.model | commercial | open_source |
| pricing.price_level | high | free |
| pricing.transparent | yes | yes |
| release.cadence_days | - | 10 |
| release.history | `[{"url":"https://github.com/jOOQ/jOOQ/releases/tag/version-3.21.7","date":"2026-08-04T13:24:23Z","type":"stable","version":"version-3.21.7"},{"url":"https://github.com/jOOQ/jOOQ/releases/tag/version-3.20.18","date":"2026-08-04T13:25:01Z","type":"stable","version":"version-3.20.18"},{"url":"https://github.com/jOOQ/jOOQ/releases/tag/version-3.19.37","date":"2026-08-04T13:25:34Z","type":"stable","version":"version-3.19.37"},{"url":"https://github.com/jOOQ/jOOQ/releases/tag/version-3.21.6","date":"2026-06-15T15:29:34Z","type":"stable","version":"version-3.21.6"},{"url":"https://github.com/jOOQ/jOOQ/releases/tag/version-3.20.17","date":"2026-06-15T15:29:58Z","type":"stable","version":"version-3.20.17"},{"url":"https://github.com/jOOQ/jOOQ/releases/tag/version-3.19.36","date":"2026-06-15T15:30:40Z","type":"stable","version":"version-3.19.36"},{"url":"https://github.com/jOOQ/jOOQ/releases/tag/version-3.21.5","date":"2026-06-04T13:27:30Z","type":"stable","version":"version-3.21.5"},{"url":"https://github.com/jOOQ/jOOQ/releases/tag/version-3.20.16","date":"2026-06-04T13:28:44Z","type":"stable","version":"version-3.20.16"},{"url":"https://github.com/jOOQ/jOOQ/releases/tag/version-3.19.35","date":"2026-06-04T13:29:14Z","type":"stable","version":"version-3.19.35"},{"url":"https://github.com/jOOQ/jOOQ/releases/tag/version-3.21.4","date":"2026-05-12T13:26:03Z","type":"stable","version":"version-3.21.4"},{"url":"https://github.com/jOOQ/jOOQ/releases/tag/version-3.20.15","date":"2026-05-12T13:26:29Z","type":"stable","version":"version-3.20.15"},{"url":"https://github.com/jOOQ/jOOQ/releases/tag/version-3.19.34","date":"2026-05-12T13:26:57Z","type":"stable","version":"version-3.19.34"},{"url":"https://github.com/jOOQ/jOOQ/releases/tag/version-3.21.3","date":"2026-05-05T11:06:10Z","type":"stable","version":"version-3.21.3"},{"url":"https://github.com/jOOQ/jOOQ/releases/tag/version-3.20.14","date":"2026-05-05T11:06:40Z","type":"stable","version":"version-3.20.14"},{"url":"https://github.com/jOOQ/jOOQ/releases/tag/version-3.19.33","date":"2026-05-05T11:07:07Z","type":"stable","version":"version-3.19.33"},{"url":"https://github.com/jOOQ/jOOQ/releases/tag/version-3.21.2","date":"2026-04-16T13:50:07Z","type":"stable","version":"version-3.21.2"},{"url":"https://github.com/jOOQ/jOOQ/releases/tag/version-3.20.13","date":"2026-04-16T13:50:38Z","type":"stable","version":"version-3.20.13"},{"url":"https://github.com/jOOQ/jOOQ/releases/tag/version-3.19.32","date":"2026-04-16T13:51:05Z","type":"stable","version":"version-3.19.32"},{"url":"https://github.com/jOOQ/jOOQ/releases/tag/version-3.21.1","date":"2026-03-26T10:29:29Z","type":"stable","version":"version-3.21.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/jOOQ/jOOQ/releases/tag/version-3.21.0","date":"2026-03-24T09:56:23Z","type":"stable","version":"version-3.21.0"}]` | `[{"url":"https://github.com/kysely-org/kysely/releases/tag/v0.29.5","date":"2026-08-10T01:06:13Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.29.5"},{"url":"https://github.com/kysely-org/kysely/releases/tag/v0.30.0-beta.1","date":"2026-07-26T17:34:07Z","type":"prerelease","version":"v0.30.0-beta.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/kysely-org/kysely/releases/tag/v0.30.0-beta.0","date":"2026-07-25T12:45:33Z","type":"prerelease","version":"v0.30.0-beta.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/kysely-org/kysely/releases/tag/v0.29.4","date":"2026-07-17T17:42:04Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.29.4"},{"url":"https://github.com/kysely-org/kysely/releases/tag/v0.29.3","date":"2026-07-05T23:18:21Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.29.3"},{"url":"https://github.com/kysely-org/kysely/releases/tag/v0.29.2","date":"2026-05-16T15:52:03Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.29.2"},{"url":"https://github.com/kysely-org/kysely/releases/tag/v0.29.1","date":"2026-05-16T00:01:27Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.29.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/kysely-org/kysely/releases/tag/v0.29.0","date":"2026-05-08T23:54:19Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.29.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/kysely-org/kysely/releases/tag/v0.28.17","date":"2026-05-03T01:10:50Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.28.17"},{"url":"https://github.com/kysely-org/kysely/releases/tag/v0.29.0-rc.0","date":"2026-04-24T20:13:08Z","type":"prerelease","version":"v0.29.0-rc.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/kysely-org/kysely/releases/tag/v0.28.16","date":"2026-04-10T18:07:40Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.28.16"},{"url":"https://github.com/kysely-org/kysely/releases/tag/v0.28.15","date":"2026-03-31T01:49:35Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.28.15"},{"url":"https://github.com/kysely-org/kysely/releases/tag/v0.28.14","date":"2026-03-20T11:28:01Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.28.14"},{"url":"https://github.com/kysely-org/kysely/releases/tag/v0.28.13","date":"2026-03-18T22:12:57Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.28.13"},{"url":"https://github.com/kysely-org/kysely/releases/tag/v0.28.12","date":"2026-03-14T09:13:30Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.28.12"},{"url":"https://github.com/kysely-org/kysely/releases/tag/v0.28.11","date":"2026-01-31T18:58:27Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.28.11"},{"url":"https://github.com/kysely-org/kysely/releases/tag/v0.28.10","date":"2026-01-18T07:13:52Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.28.10"},{"url":"https://github.com/kysely-org/kysely/releases/tag/v0.28.9","date":"2025-12-13T17:48:32Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.28.9"},{"url":"https://github.com/kysely-org/kysely/releases/tag/v0.28.8","date":"2025-10-09T21:47:50Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.28.8"},{"url":"https://github.com/kysely-org/kysely/releases/tag/v0.28.7","date":"2025-09-14T15:37:33Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.28.7"}]` |
| security.scorecard | 5.5 | 7.3 |
| security.vulnerabilities | `{"count":0,"source":"https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=maven&package_name=org.jooq%3Ajooq&per_page=100","last_12m":0,"max_severity":null}` | `{"count":4,"source":"https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=npm&package_name=kysely&per_page=100","last_12m":4,"max_severity":"HIGH"}` |

## Capabilities (ORM & Database Tools)

| Capability | jOOQ | Kysely |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **Core** |  |  |
| Type-safe queries | ✓ | ✓ |
| Schema migrations | ✗ | ✗ |
| Relations / joins API | ✓ | ✓ |
| Languages | Java | TypeScript, JavaScript (Node, Deno, Bun, Cloudflare Workers, browsers) |
| **Modelling** |  |  |
| Schema-first modelling | ✓ | ✓ |
| **Flexibility** |  |  |
| Raw SQL escape hatch | ✓ | ✓ |
| **Portability** |  |  |
| Multiple database backends | ✓ | ✓ |
| **Ops** |  |  |
| Connection pooling | ✗ | ✗ |
| **DX** |  |  |
| Data browser / studio | ✗ | ✗ |

*Source: Vioscale. Generated 2026-09-01T15:19:55.236Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*