Apache Calcite Alternatives

Apache Calcite reviews and mentions

• 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/

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