dsq VS infracost

Compare dsq vs infracost and see what are their differences.

dsq

Commandline tool for running SQL queries against JSON, CSV, Excel, Parquet, and more. (by multiprocessio)
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dsq infracost
20 85
3,619 10,239
4.4% 1.4%
4.3 9.7
7 months ago 5 days ago
Go Go
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later Apache License 2.0
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dsq

Posts with mentions or reviews of dsq. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-11-02.
  • Tracking SQLite Database Changes in Git
    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 2 Nov 2023
    You might want to look at tsv-utils, or a similar project: https://github.com/eBay/tsv-utils

    For the SQL part, but maybe a lot heavier, you can use one of the projects listed on this page: https://github.com/multiprocessio/dsq (No longer maintained, but has links to lots of other projects)

  • DuckDB: Querying JSON files as if they were tables
    9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 3 Mar 2023
    Welcome to the gang! :)

    https://github.com/multiprocessio/dsq#comparisons

  • Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours? (2022 edition)
    69 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 20 Dec 2022
  • Command-line data analytics made easy
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 3 Nov 2022
    SPyQL is really cool and its design is very smart, with it being able to leverage normal Python functions!

    As far as similar tools go, I recommend taking a look at DataFusion[0], dsq[1], and OctoSQL[2].

    DataFusion is a very (very very) fast command-line SQL engine but with limited support for data formats.

    dsq is based on SQLite which means it has to load data into SQLite first, but then gives you the whole breath of SQLite, it also supports many data formats, but is slower at the same time.

    OctoSQL is faster, extensible through plugins, and supports incremental query execution, so you can i.e. calculate a running group by + count while tailing a log file. It also supports normal databases, not just file formats, so you can i.e. join with a Postgres table.

    [0]: https://github.com/apache/arrow-datafusion

    [1]: https://github.com/multiprocessio/dsq

    [2]: https://github.com/cube2222/octosql

    Disclaimer: Author of OctoSQL

  • Jq Internals: Backtracking
    10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 5 Oct 2022
    > dsq registers go-sqlite3-stdlib so you get access to numerous statistics, url, math, string, and regexp functions that aren't part of the SQLite base. (https://github.com/multiprocessio/dsq#standard-library)

    Ah, I wondered if they rolled their own SQL parser, but no, I now see the sqlite.go in the repo and all is made clear

  • Run SQL on CSV, Parquet, JSON, Arrow, Unix Pipes and Google Sheet
    9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 24 Sep 2022
    I am currently evaluating dsq and its partner desktop app DataStation. AIUI, the developer of DataStation realised that it would be useful to extract the underlying pieces into a standalone CLI, so they both support the same range of sources.

    dsq CLI - https://github.com/multiprocessio/dsq

  • multiprocessio / dsq :
    1 project | /r/golang | 1 Sep 2022
  • OctoSQL allows you to join data from different sources using SQL
    13 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 14 Jul 2022
    OctoSQL is an awesome project and Kuba has a lot of great experience to share from building this project I'm excited to learn from.

    And while building a custom database engine does allow you to do pretty quick queries, there are a few issues.

    First, the SQL implemented is nonstandard. As I was looking for documentation and it pointed me to `SELECT * FROM docs.functions fs`. I tried to count the number of functions but octosql crashed (a Go panic) when I ran `SELECT count(1) FROM docs.functions fs` and `SELECT count() FROM docs.functions fs` which is what I lazily do in standard SQL databases. (`SELECT count(fs.name) FROM docs.function fs` worked.)

    This kind of thing will keep happening because this project just doesn't have as much resources today as SQLite, Postgres, DuckDB, etc. It will support a limited subset of SQL.

    Second, the standard library seems pretty small. When I counted the builtin functions there were only 29. Now this is an easy thing to rectify over time but just noting about the state today.

    And third this project only has builtin support for querying CSV and JSON files. Again this could be easy to rectify over time but just mentioning the state today.

    octosql is a great project but there are also different ways to do the same thing.

    I build dsq [0] which runs all queries through SQLite so it avoids point 1. It has access to SQLite's standard builtin functions plus* a battery of extra statistic aggregation, string manipulation, url manipulation, date manipulation, hashing, and math functions custom built to help this kind of interactive querying developers commonly do [1].

    And dsq supports not just CSV and JSON but parquet, excel, ODS, ORC, YAML, TSV, and Apache and nginx logs.

    A downside to dsq is that it is slower for large files (say over 10GB) when you only want a few columns whereas octosql does better in some of those cases. I'm hoping to improve this over time by adding a SQL filtering frontend to dsq but in all cases dsq will ultimately use SQLite as the query engine.

    You can find more info about similar projects in octosql's Benchmark section but I also have a comparison section in dsq [2] and an extension of the octosql benchmark with different set of tools [3] including duckdb.

    Everyone should check out duckdb. :)

    [0] https://github.com/multiprocessio/dsq

    [1] https://github.com/multiprocessio/go-sqlite3-stdlib

    [2] https://github.com/multiprocessio/dsq#comparisons

    [3] https://github.com/multiprocessio/dsq#benchmark

  • GitHub Actions are down again
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 29 Jun 2022
    What's annoying about this is that the PR doesn't even say it's trying to run tests. It says everything is passing and just doesn't list the actions.

    For a second I thought someone must have deleted the actions yaml files.

    This is a dangerous failure mode.

    https://github.com/multiprocessio/dsq/pull/82

  • Xlite: Query Excel, Open Document spreadsheets (.ods) as SQLite virtual tables
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 25 Jun 2022
    This is a cool project! But if you query Excel and ODS files with dsq you get the same thing plus a growing standard library of functions that don't come built into SQLite such as best-effort date parsing, URL parsing/extraction, statistical aggregation functions, math functions, string and regex helpers, hashing functions and so on [1].

    [0] https://github.com/multiprocessio/dsq

    [1] https://github.com/multiprocessio/go-sqlite3-stdlib

infracost

Posts with mentions or reviews of infracost. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-26.
  • Top Terraform Tools to Know in 2024
    19 projects | dev.to | 26 Mar 2024
    ‍Infracost is a cost estimation tool that generates cost estimates for Terraform projects, which is crucial for budget planning and cost optimization, especially in cloud environments where resource costs can vary significantly.
  • Top 10 terraform tools you should know about.
    10 projects | dev.to | 11 Dec 2023
    Infracost is a tool that provides cloud cost estimates for infrastructure managed by Terraform. It enables engineers to view and understand the financial impact of their infrastructure changes before they are applied. Infracost integrates directly into the workflow, offering cost breakdowns in various environments like the terminal, Visual Studio Code, or directly within pull requests. This feature allows for more informed decision-making regarding infrastructure modifications, promoting cost-awareness and budget management in the early stages of development. Infracost is particularly useful for teams looking to balance cloud resource utilization with budget constraints. Infracost Cloud is their SaaS product that builds on top of Infracost open source and works with CI/CD integrations. It gives team leads, managers and FinOps practitioners dashboards, guardrails, centralized cost policies and Jira integration so they can help guide the team (e.g. switch AWS GP2 volumes to GP3).
  • HashiCorp Adopts Business Source License
    25 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 10 Aug 2023
    Inevitable end for every open source company since the free money ended. What bothers me is that wording is vague enough.

    > HashiCorp considers a competitive offering to be a product or service provided to users or customers outside of your organization that has significant overlap with the capabilities of HashiCorp’s commercial products or services.

    So, consider there is no cost estimate service and you built a thing that got popular (https://github.com/infracost/infracost). Then after 2 years Terraform Cloud catches up. What happens? Are you out of business?

  • Carbonifer: estimate carbon footprint Terraform projects
    2 projects | /r/Terraform | 3 Feb 2023
    I've started to work on Carbonifer, a tool that can estimate carbon emissions before deploying an infrastructure. A bit like infracost, this reads Terraform files and estimates carbon emissions if this plan is applied.
  • Monitoring infra cost: which tool do you use?
    3 projects | /r/devops | 11 Jan 2023
  • Taming Cloud Costs with Infracost
    3 projects | dev.to | 9 Jan 2023
    Infracost is an open-source project that helps us understand how and where we’re spending our money. It gives a detailed breakdown of actual infrastructure costs and calculates how changes impact them. Basically, Infracost is a git diff for billing.
  • Breve guia de sobrevivĂŞncia com Terraform
    11 projects | dev.to | 22 Dec 2022
    Infracost: Estimativas de custos nos Pull Requests.
  • tfautomv v0.5 released
    2 projects | /r/Terraform | 20 Nov 2022
    There is some discussion on the infracost issue tracker where it looks like this specific error is more common with tgenv
  • List of most useful Terraform open-source tools
    14 projects | /r/Terraform | 28 Aug 2022
    Cost:Infracost (estimation): https://github.com/infracost/infracostTerratag (tagging): https://github.com/env0/terratag (disclaimer, I am CEO at env0)
  • How can i estimate the cost of the cloud infrastructure needed for an application
    2 projects | /r/devops | 14 Aug 2022
    I use https://infracost.io 🤗

What are some alternatives?

When comparing dsq and infracost you can also consider the following projects:

go-duckdb - go-duckdb provides a database/sql driver for the DuckDB database engine.

terraform-cost-estimation - Anonymized, secure, and free Terraform cost estimation based on Terraform plan (0.12+) or Terraform state (any version)

q - q - Run SQL directly on delimited files and multi-file sqlite databases

terracost-cli - AWS cost estimation for Terraform projects

querycsv - QueryCSV enables you to load CSV files and manipulate them using SQL queries then after you finish you can export the new values to a CSV file

infracost-gitlab-ci

octosql - OctoSQL is a query tool that allows you to join, analyse and transform data from multiple databases and file formats using SQL.

bicep - Bicep is a declarative language for describing and deploying Azure resources

xlite - Query Excel spredsheets (.xlsx, .xls, .ods) using SQLite

aws-nuke - Nuke a whole AWS account and delete all its resources.

textql - Execute SQL against structured text like CSV or TSV

terraform - Terraform enables you to safely and predictably create, change, and improve infrastructure. It is a source-available tool that codifies APIs into declarative configuration files that can be shared amongst team members, treated as code, edited, reviewed, and versioned.