drasi-lib

📖 Documentation: https://drasi-project.github.io/drasi-python/ — installation, concepts, the full API reference, guides, and a worked example.

Embed the Drasi continuous-query engine directly in your Python application. drasi-lib is a native PyO3 binding around Drasi's embeddable engine (drasi-lib) and its plugin host SDK (drasi-host-sdk), so you get:

• In-process continuous queries over a property graph, in Cypher or GQL.
• A working plugin ecosystem — search, resolve, download, verify and install the Drasi source/reaction/bootstrap plugins published to ghcr.io/drasi-project, picking the build that is compatible with your host.
• Python-defined components — define a reaction as a Python callback, or a source you push changes into from your own code. No Rust required.
• Streaming — async for event in drasi.query_results(id), plus lifecycle events and component logs.
• A blocking API — drasi.sync.Drasi for scripts and notebooks.

Status: pre-1.0. The API is complete — full parity with @drasi/lib plus streaming as async iterators, a blocking facade, and plugin lockfiles. See docs/api-audit.md.

Install

pip install drasi-lib

Imported as drasi. Wheels are abi3 for Python 3.10+ on Linux (x86_64, aarch64), macOS (x86_64, arm64) and Windows (x86_64), so no Rust toolchain is needed. To build from source instead, see Development, or examples/README.md for a step-by-step walkthrough.

Quickstart

Push changes from your own code and react to the results — no plugins needed:

import asyncio
from drasi import Drasi


async def main() -> None:
    async with await Drasi.create("my-app") as drasi:
        await drasi.start()

        await drasi.add_python_source("orders")
        await drasi.add_query(
            "open",
            "MATCH (o:Order) WHERE o.status = 'open' RETURN o.id AS id, o.total AS total",
            ["orders"],
        )

        def on_results(event):
            for diff in event["results"]:
                print(diff["type"], diff.get("data"))

        await drasi.add_python_reaction("watch", ["open"], on_results)

        await drasi.push_change(
            "orders",
            {
                "op": "insert",
                "id": "o1",
                "labels": ["Order"],
                "properties": {"id": "o1", "status": "open", "total": 42},
            },
        )
        await asyncio.sleep(0.5)
        print(await drasi.get_query_results("open"))


asyncio.run(main())

Using a plugin

install_plugin() resolves the build that is compatible with your machine, downloads it, verifies it and loads it:

async with await Drasi.create("my-app") as drasi:
    await drasi.install_plugin("source/mock")
    await drasi.start()

    await drasi.add_source("mock", "counters", {"dataType": {"type": "counter"}, "intervalMs": 500})
    await drasi.add_query("counts", "MATCH (c:Counter) RETURN c.value AS value", ["counters"])

Browse what is available first, if you like:

for plugin in await drasi.search_plugins():
    print(plugin["reference"])  # e.g. source/postgres, reaction/http

Plugin configuration keys are defined by the plugin itself, so they are passed through untouched — dataType above is the mock source's own spelling. Drasi's own API is snake_case, and accepts the Node.js camelCase spellings as aliases.

Plugins

Drasi plugins are self-contained cdylib files distributed as OCI artifacts from ghcr.io/drasi-project, published per platform:

ghcr.io/drasi-project/{type}/{kind}:{version}-{arch}

Because a plugin is a native library loaded into your process, it is only usable by a host built against a compatible set of Drasi crates. install_plugin() handles this for you — it reads the registry index, picks the newest build whose sdk/core/lib versions and target triple match this host, downloads it, optionally verifies its cosign signature, and loads it.

See the plugins guide, or docs/plugins.md for the contributor-facing detail.

Watching a query

Polling is rarely what you want:

async for event in await drasi.query_results("open"):
    for diff in event["results"]:
        print(diff["type"], diff.get("data"))

Lifecycle events (query_events, source_events, reaction_events, all_events) and logs (query_logs, source_logs, reaction_logs) stream the same way, and replay their history first. Callback forms (on_query_results, on_*_events, on_*_logs) exist for parity with the Node.js binding.

Without async

from drasi.sync import Drasi

with Drasi.create("my-app") as drasi:
    drasi.start()
    drasi.add_python_source("orders")
    print(drasi.get_query_results("open"))

Streams become ordinary iterators. Don't use this inside an existing event loop — it will tell you so rather than deadlocking.

Durability

A durable reaction only advances its checkpoint once your callback succeeds, so an unhandled event is replayed after a restart:

drasi = await Drasi.create(
    "app",
    state_store={"kind": "redb", "path": "state.redb"},
    index_store={"kind": "rocksdb", "path": "index"},
)


async def handle(event):
    await write_somewhere(event)  # if this raises, the event is retried


await drasi.add_durable_python_reaction("sink", ["open"], handle)

Status

docs/api-audit.md inventories the public API and compares it against the Node.js bindings and the Rust engine. It is at full parity — 48/48 methods — plus 21 methods Node does not have.

Examples

Runnable programs are in examples/, with a guide covering how to build the package locally and run them. The documentation site also has a worked Postgres dashboard example built entirely on published plugins.

make venv && make develop
.venv/bin/python examples/python_source.py

Tutorials

Longer, hands-on walkthroughs live in tutorials/. The Building Comfort tutorial builds a smart-building monitor from PostgreSQL CDC, six continuous queries with synthetic joins, and a Python reaction that drives a live Streamlit UI. The tutorials also render on the documentation site.

Development

make venv        # create .venv with a managed Python and the dev tooling
make develop     # build the native extension and install it editable
make test        # unit tests + hermetic end-to-end tests
make test-oci    # download and install real plugins from ghcr.io

Building requires a Rust toolchain. The optional rocksdb feature additionally requires libclang and a C++ toolchain. See CONTRIBUTING.md.

License

Apache-2.0. See LICENSE.