How to: Database Drivers
_Libraries for connecting and operating databases._

- MySQL - [awesome-mysql](http://shlomi-noach.github.io/awesome-mysql/)
  - [mysqlclient](https://github.com/PyMySQL/mysqlclient) - MySQL connector with Python 3 support ([mysql-python](https://sourceforge.net/projects/mysql-python/) fork).
  - [pymysql](https://github.com/PyMySQL/PyMySQL) - A pure Python MySQL driver compatible to mysql-python.
- PostgreSQL - [awesome-postgres](https://github.com/dhamaniasad/awesome-postgres)
  - [psycopg](https://github.com/psycopg/psycopg) - The most popular PostgreSQL adapter for Python.
- SQlite - [awesome-sqlite](https://github.com/planetopendata/awesome-sqlite)
  - [sqlite-utils](https://github.com/simonw/sqlite-utils) - Python CLI utility and library for manipulating SQLite databases.
  - [sqlite3](https://docs.python.org/3/library/sqlite3.html) - (Python standard library) SQlite interface compliant with DB-API 2.0.
- Other Relational Databases
  - [clickhouse-driver](https://github.com/mymarilyn/clickhouse-driver) - Python driver with native interface for ClickHouse.
  - [pymssql](https://github.com/pymssql/pymssql) - A simple database interface to Microsoft SQL Server.
- NoSQL Databases
  - [cassandra-driver](https://github.com/datastax/python-driver) - The Python Driver for Apache Cassandra.
  - [Django MongoDB Backend](https://github.com/mongodb/django-mongodb-backend) - Official MongoDB database backend for Django.
  - [happybase](https://github.com/python-happybase/happybase) - A developer-friendly library for Apache HBase.
  - [kafka-python](https://github.com/dpkp/kafka-python) - The Python client for Apache Kafka.
  - [motor](https://github.com/mongodb/motor) - The async Python driver for MongoDB.
  - [pymongo](https://github.com/mongodb/mongo-python-driver) - The official Python client for MongoDB.
  - [redis-py](https://github.com/redis/redis-py) - The Python client for Redis.
  - [Beanie](https://github.com/BeanieODM/beanie) - An asynchronous Python object-document mapper (ODM) for MongoDB.