ANTLR VS pg_query

Compare ANTLR vs pg_query and see what are their differences.

ANTLR

ANTLR (ANother Tool for Language Recognition) is a powerful parser generator for reading, processing, executing, or translating structured text or binary files. (by antlr)

pg_query

Ruby extension to parse, deparse and normalize SQL queries using the PostgreSQL query parser (by pganalyze)
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ANTLR pg_query
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16,371 752
1.4% 1.5%
8.4 6.3
3 days ago about 2 months ago
Java C
BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License
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ANTLR

Posts with mentions or reviews of ANTLR. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-02.
  • Library to parse slash commands with validation?
    3 projects | /r/dotnet | 2 Jun 2023
    antlr https://github.com/antlr/antlr4
  • How should I prepare for AI-driven changes in the industry as a Software Engineering Manager
    2 projects | /r/ExperiencedDevs | 3 May 2023
    Download the ANTLR jar from https://www.antlr.org/download/antlr-4.9.2-complete.jar Add the ANTLR jar to your project's classpath. Install the ANTLR Kotlin target by following the instructions at https://github.com/antlr/antlr4/blob/master/doc/targets/Kotlin.md Next, you'll need a Perl grammar file for ANTLR:
  • ELI5- Why can’t regex parse HTML?
    1 project | /r/AskProgramming | 13 Apr 2023
    Write a context-free grammar for it, commonly written in Backus Naur Form, and use that to write a parser. There are tools named "parser generators" like antlr4 that can automatically convert a BNF grammar into a parser.
  • Error "ImportError: No Module named antlr4
    1 project | /r/learnpython | 15 Feb 2023
  • MASSIVE help needed on this, using ANTLR4 on Ubuntu and it keeps giving this error when trying to make a parse tree… (it should show up in another window but it gives this instead) I don’t know what to do 😭
    1 project | /r/javahelp | 5 Jan 2023
    Tutorial on using it in Java: https://www.baeldung.com/java-antlr Github project itself with docs and examples: https://github.com/antlr/antlr4
  • Scripting language for Java
    2 projects | /r/javahelp | 20 Dec 2022
    Depending on how complex your expressions are, you might consider using something like antlr and writing your own parser for it. Setting up something to handle math and string operations wouldn’t be very hard and then you can control the syntax however you like. You can use a visitor and visit each node in the syntax tree and return the result of each sub-expression.
  • SQLite Internals: How the Most Used Database Works
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 19 Dec 2022
    > ...than it would be to learn the exact syntax and quirks and possibly bugs of someone else's implementation...

    Yup. Also, having deep knowledge of the language is required.

    SQLite's grammar is neat. Creating a compatible parser would make a fun project. Here's a pretty good example: https://github.com/bkiers/sqlite-parser (Actual ANTLR 4 grammar: https://github.com/bkiers/sqlite-parser/blob/master/src/main... )

    Postgres, which tries to be compliant with the latest standards, however...

    SQL-2016 is a beast. Not to mention all the dialects.

    I'm updating my personal (soon to be FOSS) grammar from ANTLR 3 LL(k) to ANTLR 4 ALL().

    I've long had a working knowledge of SQL-92, with some SQL-1999 (eg common table expressions).

    But the new structures and extensions are a bit overwhelming.

    Fortunately, ANTLR project has ~dozen FOSS grammars to learn from. https://github.com/antlr/grammars-v4/tree/master/sql

    They mostly mechanically translate BNFs to LL(k) with some ALL(). Meaning few take advantage of left-recursion. https://github.com/antlr/antlr4/blob/master/doc/left-recursi...

    Honestly, I struggled to understand these grammars. Plus, not being conversant with the SQL-2016 was a huge impediment. Just finding a succinct corbis of test cases was a huge hurdle for me.

    Fortunately, the H2 Database project is a great resource. https://github.com/h2database/h2database/tree/master/h2/src/...

    Now for the exciting conclusion...

    My ANTLR grammar which passes all of H2's tests looks nothing like any of the official or product specific BNFs.

    Further, I found discrepancy between the product specific BNFs and their implementations.

    So a lot of trial & error is required for a "real world" parser. Which would explain why the professional SQL parsing tools charge money.

    I still think creating a parser for SQLite is a great project.

  • sqlfluff VS ANTLR - a user suggested alternative
    2 projects | 12 Dec 2022
    can be used to parse
  • Bored CS student in my junior year. Give me something to do! (free plugins)
    7 projects | /r/admincraft | 20 Aug 2022
    I already posted here about a project, but I could also use help on Mantle. It's a new command framework powered by ANTLR, if that's something you're interested in.
  • ANTLR4
    2 projects | /r/golang | 3 Feb 2022
    ive been tryng to work with antlr4 and go but it seems that i cant import the runtime, it says that the antlr runtime isnt in the gopath but ive already done go get github.com/antlr/antlr4/runtime/antlr4 and i dont know what to do now, im on windows if anyone knows what to do it would be very helpful. thanks already

pg_query

Posts with mentions or reviews of pg_query. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-10-08.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing ANTLR and pg_query you can also consider the following projects:

JFlex - The fast scanner generator for Java™ with full Unicode support

mo-sql-parsing - Let's make a SQL parser so we can provide a familiar interface to non-sql datastores!

Apache Calcite - Apache Calcite

pg_query_go - Go library to parse and normalize SQL queries using the PostgreSQL query parser

lsp-mode - Emacs client/library for the Language Server Protocol

libpg_query - C library for accessing the PostgreSQL parser outside of the server environment

zetasql - ZetaSQL - Analyzer Framework for SQL

parser - A MySQL Compatible SQL Parser

sql-parser - A validating SQL lexer and parser with a focus on MySQL dialect.

pglast - PostgreSQL Languages AST and statements prettifier: master branch covers PG10, v2 branch covers PG12, v3 covers PG13, v4 covers PG14, v5 covers PG15, v6 covers PG16

proleap-cobol-parser - ProLeap ANTLR4-based parser for COBOL

pg_parse - PostgreSQL parser for Rust that uses the actual PostgreSQL server source to parse SQL queries and return the internal PostgreSQL parse tree.