Doobie is quite new, though it was available before Slick 3. If you're still in the market for a database access library I would definitely check it out. It's v

Doobie is quite new, though it was available before Slick 3. If you're still in the market for a database access library I would definitely check it out. It's very simple but powerful. The evolution of database access is interesting, from raw SQL, to ORMs, to tuple oriented abstractions over SQL (Slick, Squeryl in Scala), and now Doobie and Slick return to allowing raw SQL (with machinery in place to make it safer).