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dahlia/awesome-sqlalchemy
A curated list of awesome tools for SQLAlchemy
A reference list of SQLAlchemy extensions, organized by category — migrations, dialects, serialization, GIS, vector search, profilers, and web framework integrations. Useful when you're starting a new SQLAlchemy-based project and want to know what the ecosystem looks like before rolling your own solution.
The categorization is genuinely useful — finding nplusone (N+1 detector) or sqlakeyset (keyset pagination) quickly is worth something. The vector search section includes pgvector-python and pgai, which means the list is actively maintained and not frozen in 2019. alembic-git-revisions solving the parallel-branch migration collision problem is a real find that most devs don't know exists.
Several entries are effectively dead — SQLAlchemy-Enum34 targets Python 3.4's enum backport that no one uses anymore, sphinxalchemy targets a search engine with single-digit market share, and SQLAlchemy-migrate was superseded by Alembic a decade ago. No indication of maintenance status or Python/SQLAlchemy version compatibility per entry, so you can't tell at a glance which packages will work with SQLAlchemy 2.x. The 'thin abstractions' section mixes actively harmful choices (SQLSoup encourages schema-less reflection you'll regret) with genuinely good ones (SQLModel) without editorial judgment.