Apache Calcite VS sql-parser

Compare Apache Calcite vs sql-parser and see what are their differences.

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Apache Calcite sql-parser
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Apache Calcite

Posts with mentions or reviews of Apache Calcite. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-26.
  • Data diffs: Algorithms for explaining what changed in a dataset (2022)
    8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 26 Jul 2023
    > Make diff work on more than just SQLite.

    Another way of doing this that I've been wanting to do for a while is to implement the DIFF operator in Apache Calcite[0]. Using Calcite, DIFF could be implemented as rewrite rules to generate the appropriate SQL to be directly executed against the database or the DIFF operator can be implemented outside of the database (which the original paper shows is more efficient).

    [0] https://calcite.apache.org/

  • Apache Baremaps: online maps toolkit
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 28 May 2023
    Yes, planetiler rocks and the memory mapped collections enabled us to remove our dependency to rocksdb.

    From my perspective, planetiler started as an effort to generate vector tiles from the OpenMapTile schema as fast as possible (pbf -> mvt). By contrast, Baremaps started as an effort to create a new schema and style from the ground up. In this regard, having a database (pbf -> db <- mvt) enables to live reload changes made in the configuration files. The database has a cost, but also comes with additional advantages (updates, dynamic data, generation of tiles at zoom levels 16+, etc.).

    That being said, I think the two projects overlap and I hope we will find opportunities to collaborate in the future. For instance, whereas PostgreSQL is still required in Baremaps, I recently ported a lot of the ST_ function of Postgis to Apache Calcite with the intent to execute SQL on fast memory mapped collection.

    https://github.com/apache/calcite/blob/main/core/src/main/ja...

    A planet wide import in Postgis currently takes about 4 hours with the COPY API (easy to parallelize) followed by about 12 hours of simplification in Postgis (not easy to parallelize). I will try to publish a detailed benchmark in the future.

  • How to manipulate SQL string programmatically?
    2 projects | /r/dataengineering | 28 Apr 2023
    Use a SQL Parser like sqlglot or Apache Calcite to compile user's query into an AST.
  • Can SQL be used without an RDBMS?
    7 projects | /r/PHP | 27 Feb 2023
  • Apache Calcite
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Feb 2023
  • Want to contribute more to open source projects.
    8 projects | /r/dotnet | 18 Aug 2022
  • CITIC Industrial Cloud — Apache ShardingSphere Enterprise Applications
    1 project | dev.to | 14 Apr 2022
    The SQL Federation engine contains processes such as SQL Parser, SQL Binder, SQL Optimizer, Data Fetcher and Operator Calculator, suitable for dealing with co-related queries and subqueries cross multiple database instances. At the underlying layer, it uses Calcite to implement RBO (Rule Based Optimizer) and CBO (Cost Based Optimizer) based on relational algebra, and query the results through the optimal execution plan.
  • Postgres wire compatible SQLite proxy
    14 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 31 Mar 2022
    Awesome to see work in the DB wire compatible space. On the MySQL side, there was MySQL Proxy (https://github.com/mysql/mysql-proxy), which was scriptable with Lua, with which you could create your own MySQL wire compatible connections. Unfortunately it appears to have been abandoned by Oracle and IIRC doesn't work with 5.7 and beyond. I used it in the past to hack together a MySQL wire adapter for Interana (https://scuba.io/).

    I guess these days the best approach for connecting arbitrary data sources to existing drivers, at least for OLAP, is Apache Calcite (https://calcite.apache.org/). Unfortunately that feels a little more involved.

  • Launch HN: Hydra (YC W22) – Query Any Database via Postgres
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 23 Feb 2022
    For anyone interested, Apache Calcite[0] is an open source data management framework which seems to do many of the same things that Hydra claims to do, but taking a different approach. Operating as a Java library, Calcite contains "adapters" to many different data sources from existing JDBC connectors to Elasticsearch to Cassandra. All of these different data sources can be joined together as desired. Calcite also has it's own optimizer which is able to push down relevant parts of the query to the different data sources. However, you get full SQL on data sources which don't support it, with Calcite executing the remaining bits itself.

    Unfortunately, I would not be too surprised if Calcite was found to be less performance-optimized than Hydra. That said, there are users of Calcite at Google, Uber, Spotify, and others who have made great use of various parts of the framework.

    [0] https://calcite.apache.org/

  • Anyone know of any software that can help in designing then outputting to various database
    1 project | /r/DatabaseHelp | 21 Nov 2021
    Abstraction Layer - You can use something like Calcite to abstract out your data storage. https://calcite.apache.org/

sql-parser

Posts with mentions or reviews of sql-parser. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-27.
  • Can SQL be used without an RDBMS?
    7 projects | /r/PHP | 27 Feb 2023
    You can tokenize the query using [sql-parser](https://github.com/phpmyadmin/sql-parser) and then write functions to load, filter, sort, and group data, if you really wanted to.
  • Row hyperlinks to foreign tables not showing
    1 project | /r/phpmyadmin | 23 Nov 2022
    Hi! This is because ansi quotes are not yet supported: https://github.com/phpmyadmin/sql-parser/issues/284 What application does require ansi quotes?
  • Open Source SQL Parsers
    17 projects | dev.to | 8 Oct 2021
    SQL Parser in phpmyadmin is a validating SQL lexer and parser with a focus on MySQL dialect.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Apache Calcite and sql-parser you can also consider the following projects:

Trino - Official repository of Trino, the distributed SQL query engine for big data, formerly known as PrestoSQL (https://trino.io)

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

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

Presto - The official home of the Presto distributed SQL query engine for big data

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

JSqlParser - JSqlParser parses an SQL statement and translate it into a hierarchy of Java classes. The generated hierarchy can be navigated using the Visitor Pattern

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

Apache Spark - Apache Spark - A unified analytics engine for large-scale data processing

sqlparse - A non-validating SQL parser module for Python

Apache Drill - Apache Drill is a distributed MPP query layer for self describing data

zetasql - ZetaSQL - Analyzer Framework for SQL