relativedb 0.1.3

Predictive queries (RelQL) over your own data: GraphQL-style user-defined retrievers, no bundled database connectors.

RelativeDB / RelQL

RelativeDB is an optimized implementation of Relational Transformers, exposed through RelQL, a query language for predicting what happens next:

PREDICT NOT EXISTS(orders.*)
FROM customers

"For every customer, what is the probability they don't place an order."

RelativeDB works best with many tables (10–100) and needs no feature engineering. Subgraphs are discovered automatically, though you can ablate them to find what features really matter. Because it uses a pretrained model, it works in environments with very little data.

# Auto-label a GitHub issue: predict its label from title, body, and history.
PREDICT issues.label
WHERE issues.label IS NULL

# Would customer 42 churn if we moved them to the premium plan?
PREDICT NOT EXISTS(orders.*)
FROM customers c
WHERE c.customer_id = 42
ASSUMING c.plan = 'premium'

# Expected spend per customer over the next quarter.
PREDICT SUM(transactions.price) OVER (90 DAYS FOLLOWING)
FROM customers

# The 12 articles each customer is most likely to buy next.
PREDICT ARRAY_AGG(transactions.article_id) OVER (30 DAYS FOLLOWING RANK TOP 12)
FROM customers

Install

pip install relativedb

Python 3.10 or newer. Wheels bundle the native inference engine for macOS (universal2, 13.0+; Accelerate and Metal) and manylinux x86_64 / aarch64. Windows is not supported. On any other platform pip falls back to the source distribution, which contains no engine: build it from the repository (cpp/ with CMake) and point RELATIVEDB_RT_LIB at the built librt_c.

Quickstart: 90-day churn from your own DataFrames

A sketch — customer_dao, order_dao and t0 stand in for your storage and your anchor time. A copy-paste runnable version with an in-memory database is in the repository README.

from relativedb import (Schema, TableDef, LinkDef, ValueType,
                        RetrieverWiring, Engine, ExecutionInput, RtNativeBackend)

schema = (Schema.new_schema()
    .table(TableDef.new_table("customers")
        .column("age", ValueType.NUMBER)
        .column("signup_date", ValueType.DATETIME)
        .primary_key("customer_id").build())
    .table(TableDef.new_table("orders")
        .column("qty", ValueType.NUMBER)
        .column("order_date", ValueType.DATETIME)
        .primary_key("order_id").time_column("order_date").build())
    .link(LinkDef("orders", "customer_id", "customers"))
    .build())

wiring = (RetrieverWiring.new_wiring()
    .entities("customers", lambda table, ids, bound: customer_dao.by_ids(ids))
    .entities("orders",    lambda table, ids, bound: order_dao.by_ids(ids, bound))
    .default_links(lambda link, parent_id, bound, limit:
                   order_dao.recent_by_customer(parent_id, bound.as_of, limit))
    .build())

engine = Engine(schema, wiring, model_backend=RtNativeBackend(schema=schema))
result = engine.execute(ExecutionInput(
    query="PREDICT NOT EXISTS(orders.*) OVER (90 DAYS FOLLOWING) FROM customers "
          "WHERE customers.customer_id IN :ids",
    params={"ids": ["C7"]},   # the cohort; drop the WHERE to score every customer
    anchor_time=t0))

Checkpoints

Model checkpoints resolve through the Hugging Face cache on first use. Set RELATIVEDB_RT_QUANTIZED to f16, q8, or q4 to trade footprint for precision:

Checkpoint	On-disk	Accuracy	Download
fp32	342 MB	reference	—
fp16	172 MB	identical	rt-j-fp16
int8	88 MB	±0.01	rt-j-int8
int4	64 MB	±0.15	rt-j-int4

The model

RelativeDB is based on:

• stanford-star/relational-transformer — RT-J: Large-Scale Pretraining of Relational Transformers for Context-Efficient Predictions
• Relational Transformer: Toward Zero-Shot Foundation Models for Relational Data (arXiv:2510.06377)

Development

pip install -e ".[dev]"

pytest -m "not integration"   # unit tier: no checkpoint, no network (<1s)
pytest -m integration         # native kernels + the real rt-j checkpoint
pytest                        # everything

Both tiers run from this directory or from the repository root. The unit tier still needs librt_c — the RelQL grammar lives once in C++ and is shared by the Python, Java, and Rust bindings — but it never downloads a checkpoint or opens a socket. The integration tier resolves hf://stanford-star/rt-j/… through the Hugging Face cache (~326 MB fp32, plus ~128 MB for the pinned MiniLM text encoder).

Set RELATIVEDB_REQUIRE_NATIVE=1 to make a missing library or an unresolvable checkpoint a hard failure instead of a skip. CI sets it on the integration job, so a cold or broken model cache turns the build red rather than reporting "0 tests ran, all green".

Coverage:

pytest --cov=relativedb --cov-report=xml:coverage-python.xml --cov-report=term

Docs

Read the RelQL book.

License

Apache-2.0.