The database/sql and database/sql/driver packages are designed for using databases from Go and implementing database drivers, respectively.
See the design goals doc:
Drivers for Go's sql package include:
- Apache Phoenix/Avatica: https://github.com/Boostport/avatica
- ClickHouse: https://github.com/kshvakov/clickhouse
- Couchbase N1QL: https://github.com/couchbase/go_n1ql
- DB2: https://bitbucket.org/phiggins/db2cli
- Firebird SQL: https://github.com/nakagami/firebirdsql
- MS ADODB: https://github.com/mattn/go-adodb
- MS SQL Server (pure go): https://github.com/denisenkom/go-mssqldb
- MS SQL Server (uses cgo): https://github.com/minus5/gofreetds
- MySQL: https://github.com/ziutek/mymysql
[*] - MySQL: https://github.com/go-sql-driver/mysql/
[*] - ODBC: https://bitbucket.org/miquella/mgodbc
- ODBC: https://github.com/alexbrainman/odbc
- Oracle: https://github.com/mattn/go-oci8
- Oracle: https://github.com/rana/ora
- QL: http://godoc.org/github.com/cznic/ql/driver
- Postgres (pure Go): https://github.com/lib/pq
[*] - Postgres (uses cgo): https://github.com/jbarham/gopgsqldriver
- Postgres (pure Go): https://github.com/jackc/pgx
- SAP HANA (pure go): https://github.com/SAP/go-hdb
- SQLite: https://github.com/mattn/go-sqlite3
[*] - SQLite: https://github.com/gwenn/gosqlite - Supports SQLite dynamic data typing
- SQLite: https://github.com/mxk/go-sqlite
- Sybase SQL Anywhere: https://github.com/a-palchikov/sqlago
- Vitess: https://godoc.org/github.com/youtube/vitess/go/vt/vitessdriver
- YQL (Yahoo! Query Language): https://github.com/mattn/go-yql
Drivers marked with a [*] are both included in and pass the compatibility test suite at https://github.com/bradfitz/go-sql-test