# samyfodil/musql

> Embedded Go database with SQLite-compatible SQL, a columnar .musq format and JIT compilation of query paths to native code. Positioned as a faster SQLite replacement for analytical reads.

- Magnitude: 3.9 out of 10 — Early signal
- Stars: 58 total · +0 stars measured 2026-10-07, 11:50–12:40 UTC, ≈ 8 by evening
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: Backend & databases · Language: Go · License: Apache-2.0 · Created: 2026-07-17 · Last push: 2026-10-07
- GitHub: https://github.com/samyfodil/musql · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/samyfodil/musql

## Useful for

- Drop in as a database/sql driver in a Go program instead of SQLite
- Import an existing SQLite database into .musq format with musql-convert
- Run musqld in Docker and query it from TypeScript via a libSQL client

## Why it’s here

- Star-counter measurements on 2026-10-07 (UTC), 11:50–12:40: 58 → 58 stars (+0). This is the change over that interval.
- Estimated end-of-day forecast: about +8 stars, using observed gains and the previous day.
- Before this, the repository barely got any stars — about 0 per day.
- Elevated gains were measured on the last 2 completed UTC days in a row. Continued growth is not guaranteed.
- Hacker News: “Show HN: Musql, JIT-compiled SQL, up to 300x faster than SQLite, 1000x vs. Turso” — 8 points, 7 h ago.
- About 5 forks a day — people are taking the code.

## Star trust

Star growth looks organic.

Star-trust labels are heuristics based on the repository’s behavior, not a check of every stargazer.

## Numbers

- Forks: 8
- Issues and pull requests: 7
- Watchers: 4
- Average over the last week: 9 per day
- Usual pace: 0 per day
- Stars in the last hour (measured): 0
- Latest release: v0.2.1 (2026-10-07)

## Stars per day, last 30 days (oldest → newest, today is partial)

2026-09-08 … 2026-10-07: 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 16, 38, 0

## Hacker News

- Show HN: Musql, JIT-compiled SQL, up to 300x faster than SQLite, 1000x vs. Turso — 8 points, 3 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49988641

## Spotted in now

- Spotted on Hacker News

## Similar by description

1. **tursodatabase/turso** — 2.4 · Steady · Backend & databases · Rust · +9 stars measured 2026-10-07, 00:21–12:44 UTC, ≈ 17 by evening
   An in-process SQL database written in Rust, compatible with SQLite file formats and C API, with an experimental Postgres frontend and WebAssembly support.
   Full card: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/tursodatabase/turso.md

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Magnitude (0–10) measures how fast and how unusually interest in a repository is growing right now. It is not a quality score.
Days are UTC. “So far today” is a fact; “expected by the end of the day” is a forecast.
Summaries and use cases are written by an LLM (DeepSeek V4.1 Flash) from the README and may be inaccurate: verify specific claims (benchmarks, speed, hardware) in the repository itself.
Data as of 2026-10-07 12:58 UTC, updated every 30 minutes.