They wouldn't install if not for packages
In Use of DBI in Sqitch, Wheeler writes about Sqitch, an application for SQL change management. Sqitch uses the native database client applications (psql, sqlite3, mysql, etc.). […] The IPC is a huge PITA. Furthermore, getting things properly quoted is also pretty annoying I would expect this when you use SQL command-line tools in other tools. Of course, this is Perl, which is better at this kind of thing than other languages....