You can use it like korma if you want (it has a higher level dsl (but with functions that all return a map)) ala: (require '[honeysql.helpers :as sql])

You can use it like korma if you want (it has a higher level dsl (but with functions that all return a map)) ala: (require '[honeysql.helpers :as sql]) (def query-map (-> (sql/select :*) (sql/from :foo) (sql/where [:= :bar "baz"]) (sql/limit 5))) This works because each of these functions has two arities, the lower one returning a map, and the higher one assoc'ing or merging (there are merge-* functions for building purposes) something into its first argument (which is presumed to be a map). (= (sql/from :foo) {:from '(foo)}) This means that if you just need a SQL AST, you have this handy map thing that honeysql can turn into platform-specific sql. But if you just need something quick and dirty, you can use something that looks very similar to korma. There is no ORM functionality, but with a query building toolkit, I haven't really needed it. Since honeysql's helpers are built as functions, I haven't even really needed to dive into the lower map representation much, although it was handy the one time I was translating a higher level query language into sql.