Go

The following projects can be used to implement Golang applications using the YugabyteDB YSQL API.

Supported Projects

Project	Documentation and Guides	Latest Driver Version	Supported YugabyteDB Version
YugabyteDB PGX Driver [Recommended]	Documentation Hello World App Reference Page	v4	2.8 and above
PGX Driver	Documentation Hello World App Reference Page	v4	2.8 and above
PQ Driver	Documentation Hello World App Reference Page	v1.10.2	2.6 and above

Project	Documentation and Guides	Example Apps
GORM [Recommended]	Documentation	Hello World
GO-PG	Documentation	Hello World

Learn how to establish a connection to a YugabyteDB database and begin basic CRUD operations using the Hello World examples.

For fully-runnable code snippets and explanations of common operations, see the example apps. Before running the example apps, make sure you have installed the prerequisites.

For reference documentation, including using projects with SSL, refer to the drivers and ORMs reference pages.

Prerequisites

To develop Golang applications for YugabyteDB, you need the following:

Go
Install the latest Go (1.16 or later) on your system.
Run go --version in a terminal to check your version of Go. To install Go, visit Go Downloads.
Create a Go project
For ease-of-use, use an integrated development environment (IDE) such as Visual Studio. To download and install Visual Studio, visit the Visual Studio Downloads page.
YugabyteDB cluster
- Create a free cluster on YugabyteDB Managed. Refer to Create a free cluster. Note that YugabyteDB Managed requires SSL.
- Alternatively, set up a standalone YugabyteDB cluster by following the steps in Install YugabyteDB.

Next steps

Learn how to build Go applications using GORM.
Learn how to run Go applications with YugabyteDB using GORM.