OctoSQL Reviews and Details

Is OctoSQL good?

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• Feldera Incremental Compute Engine

  This looks extremely cool. This is basically incremental view maintenance in databases, a problem that almost everybody (I think) has when using SQL databases and wanting to do some derived views for more performant access patterns. Importantly, they seem to support a wide breath of SQL operators, and it's open-source! There's already a bunch of tools in this area: 1. Materialize[0], which afaik is more... - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Analyzing multi-gigabyte JSON files locally

  OctoSQL[0] or DuckDB[1] will most likely be much simpler, while going through 10 GB of JSON in a couple seconds at most. Disclaimer: author of OctoSQL [0]: https://github.com/cube2222/octosql. - Source: Hacker News / about 3 years ago

• DuckDB: Querying JSON files as if they were tables

  This is really cool! With their Postgres scanner[0] you can now easily query multiple datasources using SQL and join between them (i.e. Postgres table with JSON file). Something I strived to build with OctoSQL[1] before. It's amazing to see how quickly DuckDB is adding new features. Not a huge fan of C++, which is right now used for authoring extensions, it'd be really cool if somebody implemented a Rust extension... - Source: Hacker News / about 3 years ago

• Show HN: ClickHouse-local – a small tool for serverless data analytics

  Congrats on the Show HN! It's great to see more tools in this area (querying data from various sources in-place) and the Lambda use case is a really cool idea! I've recently done a bunch of benchmarking, including ClickHouse Local and the usage was straightforward, with everything working as it's supposed to. Just to comment on the performance area though, one area I think ClickHouse could still possibly improve... - Source: Hacker News / over 3 years ago

• Command-line data analytics made easy

  SPyQL is really cool and its design is very smart, with it being able to leverage normal Python functions! As far as similar tools go, I recommend taking a look at DataFusion[0], dsq[1], and OctoSQL[2]. DataFusion is a very (very very) fast command-line SQL engine but with limited support for data formats. Dsq is based on SQLite which means it has to load data into SQLite first, but then gives you the whole breath... - Source: Hacker News / over 3 years ago

• Steampipe – Select * from Cloud;

  To add somewhat of a counterpoint to the other response, I've tried the Steampipe CSV plugin and got 50x slower performance vs OctoSQL[0], which is itself 5x slower than something like DataFusion[1]. The CSV plugin doesn't contact any external API's so it should be a good benchmark of the plugin architecture, though it might just not be optimized yet. That said, I don't imagine this ever being a bottleneck for the... - Source: Hacker News / over 3 years ago

• Go runtime: 4 years later

  Actually, folks just use gRPC or Yaegi in Go. See Terraform[0], Traefik[1], or OctoSQL[2]. Although I agree plugins would be welcome, especially for performance reasons, though also to be able to compile and load go code into a running go process (JIT-ish). [0]: https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform [1]: https://github.com/traefik/traefik [2]: https://github.com/cube2222/octosql Disclaimer: author of OctoSQL. - Source: Hacker News / over 3 years ago

• Run SQL on CSV, Parquet, JSON, Arrow, Unix Pipes and Google Sheet

  This looks really cool! Especially using datafusion underneath means that it probably is blazingly fast. If you like this, I recommend taking a look at OctoSQL[0], which I'm the author of. It's plenty fast, easier to add new data sources for as external plugins, can handle endless streams of data natively and is able to push down predicates to the database below (so if you're selecting 10 rows from a 1 billion row... - Source: Hacker News / over 3 years ago

• Beginner interested in learning SQL. Have a few question that I wasn’t able to find on google.

  Through more magic, you COULD of course use stuff like Spark, or easier with programs like TextQL, sq, OctoSQL. Source: almost 4 years ago

• How I Used DALL·E 2 to Generate The Logo for OctoSQL

  The logo was created for OctoSQL and in the article you can find a lot of sample phrase-image combinations, as it describes the whole path (generation, variation, editing) I went down. Let me know what you think! Source: almost 4 years ago

• How I Used DALL·E 2 to Generate the Logo for OctoSQL

  Hey, author here, happy to answer any questions! The logo was created for OctoSQL[0] and in the article you can find a lot of sample phrase-image combinations, as it describes the whole path (generation, variation, editing) I went down. Let me know what you think! [0]:https://github.com/cube2222/octosql. - Source: Hacker News / almost 4 years ago

• A SQLite extension for reading large files line-by-line

  And as you can see, the results go in a very different direction. [0]: https://github.com/cube2222/octosql [1]: https://github.com/dcmoura/spyql/blob/master/notebooks/json_benchmark.ipynb. - Source: Hacker News / almost 4 years ago

• Hacker News top posts: Jul 16, 2022

  OctoSQL allows you to join data from different sources using SQL\ (24 comments). Source: almost 4 years ago

• One-liner for running queries against CSV files with SQLite

  Since many people are sharing ones liners with various tools... OctoSQL[0]: octosql 'SELECT passenger_count, COUNT(*), AVG(total_amount) FROM taxi.csv GROUP BY passenger_count' [0]:https://github.com/cube2222/octosql. - Source: Hacker News / almost 4 years ago

• One year as a solo dev building open-source data tools without funding

  Hey, congrats on the journey! Especially on the community building aspect, it's really impressive that you've been able to spark so many communities on various platforms (Reddit, GitHub, Discord, etc.)! On a more technical note, since dsq is based on the "load it into SQLite and query it from there" architecture, have you considered integrating with the plugin ecosystems of other existing projects, like... - Source: Hacker News / almost 4 years ago

• GitHub Star History Graph

  I recommend adding telemetry to your project (and I know a lot of people feel strongly about this, so I'll add: with a very easy way of disabling it). In OctoSQL[0] I'm literally just sending JSON files with coarse information about 1. Invocations of the CLI, 2. Features used in these invocations, to a VM on DigitalOcean (with a 10-line server receiving them and writing to a JSON file - which I can then process... - Source: Hacker News / almost 4 years ago

• The fastest tool for querying JSON files is *not* written in Python (revised)

  Hey, OctoSQL[0] author here. This is an updated benchmark originally posted a week ago[1] and is a bit of an update to the assertion made at that time. It now includes clickhouse-local, which is very very fast, as well as a new release of OctoSQL where I tackled some low hanging fruits to get a huge boost in performance (happy to expand in case somebody's interested), which resulted in substantial changes to the... - Source: Hacker News / about 4 years ago

• Generics can make your Go code slower

  Great article, just skimmed it, but will definitely dive deeper into it. I thought Go is doing full monomorphization. As another datapoint I can add that I tried to replace the interface{}-based btree that I use as the main workhorse for grouping in OctoSQL[0] with a generic one, and got around 5% of a speedup out of it in terms of records per second. That said, compiling with Go 1.18 vs Go 1.17 got me a 10-15%... - Source: Hacker News / about 4 years ago

• How to use SQL to directly query files

  OctoSQL is primarily a command-line application that allows you to query a variety of databases and filetypes using SQL in a single interface, as well as perform JOINS between them. OctoSQL is a fully expandable, fully-featured dataflow engine that can be used to provide a SQL interface for your applications. It validates and optimizes queries based on database types. It may process massive volumes of data and... - Source: dev.to / over 4 years ago

• Tricking PostgreSQL into using an insane – but 200x faster – query plan

  > [0]:https://github.com/cube2222/octosql nice tool, thanks for making this available. - Source: Hacker News / over 4 years ago

• Tricking PostgreSQL into using an insane – but 200x faster – query plan

  That's harsh, could you explain why, please? As far as I understand (and I'm the author) `COUNT()` means "count the number of rows, regardless of the values". `COUNT(id)` means "count all non-NULL id's" which ends up being the same for non-nullable columns, but requires additional processing for nullable ones. Thus the first option should be able to optimize out more processing time in some situations and at... - Source: Hacker News / over 4 years ago