I benchmarked every Go SQL parser in 2026 and built my own

The author benchmarked major Go SQL parsers—xwb1989/sqlparser, TiDB's parser, pganalyze/pg_query_go, and others—against requirements like multi-dialect support, high throughput, no cgo, and a walkable AST. Each existing option had significant trade-offs: outdated codebases, MySQL-only support, heavy dependencies, or cgo requirements. Dissatisfied with the landscape, the author built GoSQLX as a pure Go, multi-dialect SQL parser.