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I could be wrong. That's one thing I'm trying to figure out. Setting that aside, like I said I don't really know that community, being mostly a Java developer. What're the go to database libraries? Is it sequelize, or something else?

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There are tons of DB drivers/libraries for node. I'm personally a huge fan of slonik.

sequelize seems to be much more popular than slonik. Is sequelize more or less the standard or at least market leader?

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=S...

Sequelize is primarily an ORM. I won't get into a religious debate, but there are many good reasons for not wanting to use an ORM.

Slonik is much newer, and is Postgres only. But there is a general trend seen in many different projects that support safe SQL execution using tagged template literals in JavaScript, which is a fantastic technology. Slonik was one of the first projects that went this route, but there are now many others.

In general I think it's a mistake to look for a single "market leader" for node DB access. There are many high quality libraries that are favored by different teams for various reasons.

I'm just trying to get a sense of what tools are most commonly used.

Of course, Hibernate (Java) dwarfs them all.

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=S...

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