An interpreted relational query language that compiles to SQL
Project description
Preql is an interpreted, relational programming language, that specializes in database queries.
It is designed for use by data engineers, analysts and data scientists.
Preql's main objective is to provide an alternative to SQL, in the form of a high-level programming language, with first-class functions, modules, strict typing, and Python integration.
How does it work?
Preql code is interpreted and gets compiled to SQL at runtime. This way, Preql gains the performance and abilities of SQL, but can also operate as a normal scripting language.
Currently supported dialects are:
- Postgres
- MySQL
- Sqlite
- BigQuery
- More... (planned)
For features that are database-specific, or aren't implemented in Preql, there is a SQL()
function that provides a convenient escape hatch to write raw SQL code.
Main Features
- Modern syntax and semantics
- Interpreted, everything is an object
- Strong type system with gradual type validation and duck-typing
- Compiles to SQL
- Python and Pandas integration
- Interactive shell (REPL) with auto-completion
- Runs on Jupyter Notebook
Note: Preql is still work in progress, and isn't yet recommended for use in production.
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Get started
Simply install via pip:
pip install -U preql
Then just run the interpreter:
preql
Requires Python 3.6+
Quick Example
// Declare a new table
table Continent {
name: string
area: int // km²
population: int
}
// Initialize the table, by inserting rows
new Continent("Africa", 30370000, 1287920000)
new Continent("Antarctica", 14000000, 4490)
new Continent("Asia", 44579000, 4545133000)
new Continent("Europe", 10180000, 742648000)
new Continent("North America", 24709000, 587615000)
new Continent("South America", 17840000, 428240000)
new Continent("Australia", 8600000, 41261000)
// Print the continents, ordered by density
print Continent {
... // Include existing fields
density: population / area // Create new a field
} order{^density}
// Print the total land area
print "Total land area:", sum(Continent{area}), "km²"
// ========================= Output ==========================
table =7
┏━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓
┃ id ┃ name ┃ area ┃ population ┃ density ┃
┡━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┩
│ 3 │ Asia │ 44579000 │ 4545133000 │ 101.9568182328002 │
│ 4 │ Europe │ 10180000 │ 742648000 │ 72.9516699410609 │
│ 1 │ Africa │ 30370000 │ 1287920000 │ 42.40763911755021 │
│ 6 │ South America │ 17840000 │ 428240000 │ 24.004484304932735 │
│ 5 │ North America │ 24709000 │ 587615000 │ 23.781415678497712 │
│ 7 │ Australia │ 8600000 │ 41261000 │ 4.797790697674419 │
│ 2 │ Antarctica │ 14000000 │ 4490 │ 0.0003207142857142857 │
└────┴───────────────┴──────────┴────────────┴───────────────────────┘
Total land area: 150278000 km²
In the background, this table was generated by executing the following compiled SQL code (reformatted):
-- Continent {..., density: population / area} order{ ^density }
WITH subq_1(id, name, area, population, density) AS (
SELECT id, name, area, population, (CAST(population AS float) / area) AS density
FROM Continent
ORDER BY density DESC)
SELECT * FROM subq_1
See more examples in the examples folder.
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License
Preql uses an “Interface-Protection Clause” on top of the MIT license.
See: LICENSE
In simple words, it's free for personal use. Also, it can be used for any commercial or non-commercial purpose, as long as your product doesn't base its value on exposing the Preql language itself to your users. Read more
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