# Stoolap

9 Hacker News commenters recommended Stoolap and 5 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 2 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** People recommend Stoolap as a pure Rust embedded SQL database with good documentation, a substantial test suite and full ACID compliance, though it is very new and critics doubt it is ready for production data.

## What people warn about

- Name is unfortunate (3 comments): "this looks like something to watch. And I agree with the comments about the unfortunate name" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46244135)) "I think the name is not good. It sounds like "stool app"." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46241928)) "the naming choice is unfortunate" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47071071))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [SQLite](https://hackerapproved.com/p/sqlite.md): 847 recommend
- [PGlite](https://hackerapproved.com/p/pglite.md): 49 recommend
- [DuckDB WASM](https://hackerapproved.com/p/duckdb-wasm.md): 11 recommend
- [SlateDB](https://hackerapproved.com/p/slatedb.md): 6 recommend
- [SlothDB](https://hackerapproved.com/p/slothdb.md): 6 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Stoolap", https://hackerapproved.com/p/stoolap/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).