pglast VS JSqlParser

Compare pglast vs JSqlParser and see what are their differences.

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 (by lelit)

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 (by JSQLParser)
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pglast JSqlParser
2 4
337 4,965
- 1.0%
8.9 9.4
23 days ago 7 days ago
Python Java
- Apache License 2.0
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pglast

Posts with mentions or reviews of pglast. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-08-06.
  • Show HN: Postgres Language Server
    21 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 6 Aug 2023
    Can't you just give some love to the issue https://github.com/pganalyze/libpg_query/issues/44 instead ? As I said before this would be very helpful for the community because there are a lot of libraries that use libpg_query and cannot be used on windows (f.e see https://github.com/lelit/pglast/issues/7).

    It seems that the only problem for fixing the problem is:

    > Thanks for the offer, but the problem is our team being time limited / having an engineer with a Windows machine ready to take this on, not that we wouldn't want to pay someone to work on it :)

    (https://github.com/pganalyze/libpg_query/issues/44#issuecomm...)

    Hosting the LSP elsewhere is really needed since if people wanted to go that way they could use Remote ssh (https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/remote/ssh) to host the whole dev environment on linux and connect to it.

    Thank you

  • Open Source SQL Parsers
    17 projects | dev.to | 8 Oct 2021
    Python: pglast

JSqlParser

Posts with mentions or reviews of JSqlParser. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-07-29.
  • Semantic Diff for SQL
    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 29 Jul 2022
    I wonder if this is a topical thread to check if anyone is aware of a Java based solution to parse a CREATE VIEW statement to get a mapping between the view columns and the corresponding source table columns. I checked out jsqlparser[0] and it does produce an AST which can be parsed using the visitor-pattern[1] but was wondering if there is a more "out-of-the-box" solution. Due to various reasons, querying the database information schema is not an option I can pursue.

    [0]: https://github.com/JSQLParser/JSqlParser

    [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visitor_pattern

  • Open Source SQL Parsers
    17 projects | dev.to | 8 Oct 2021
    JSQLParser can parse multiple SQL dialects like MySQL, Postgres and Oracle. The grammar can be modified to support other SQL dialects.
  • Let's write a compiler, part 5: A code generator
    14 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 19 Aug 2021
  • Racket v8.0
    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 14 Feb 2021
    Interesting coincidence - I'm working on a parser that parses the AST produced by JSqlParser[0] for a create view statement to generate mapping between the columns of a view and the columns of its underlying table. It is an interesting example of having to use the visitor pattern[1].

    [0]: https://github.com/JSQLParser/JSqlParser

What are some alternatives?

When comparing pglast and JSqlParser you can also consider the following projects:

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

Apache Calcite - Apache Calcite

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

sqlglot - Python SQL Parser and Transpiler

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

zetasql - ZetaSQL - Analyzer Framework for SQL

pg_query - Ruby extension to parse, deparse and normalize SQL queries using the PostgreSQL query parser

sqlparse - A non-validating SQL parser module for Python

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

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

queryparser - Parsing and analysis of Vertica, Hive, and Presto SQL.