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sqlitebrowser
Official home of the DB Browser for SQLite (DB4S) project. Previously known as "SQLite Database Browser" and "Database Browser for SQLite". Website at:
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SaaSHub
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miller
Miller is like awk, sed, cut, join, and sort for name-indexed data such as CSV, TSV, and tabular JSON
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octosql
OctoSQL is a query tool that allows you to join, analyse and transform data from multiple databases and file formats using SQL.
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tidy-viewer
📺(tv) Tidy Viewer is a cross-platform CLI csv pretty printer that uses column styling to maximize viewer enjoyment.
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brackit
Query processor with proven optimizations, ready to use for your JSON store to query semi-structured data with JSONiq. Can also be used as an ad-hoc in-memory query processor.
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csvkit
A suite of utilities for converting to and working with CSV, the king of tabular file formats.
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trdsql
CLI tool that can execute SQL queries on CSV, LTSV, JSON, YAML and TBLN. Can output to various formats.
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XAN: A Modern CSV-Centric Data Manipulation Toolkit for the Terminal
I used to use q for this sort of thing. Not sure if there are better choices now as it have been a few years.
https://harelba.github.io/q/
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I wrote this iCalendar (.ics) command-line utility to turn common calendar exports into more broadly compatible CSV files.
CSV utilities (still haven't pick a favorite one...): https://github.com/harelba/q https://github.com/BurntSushi/xsv https://github.com/wireservice/csvkit https://github.com/johnkerl/miller
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Show HN: ClickHouse-local – a small tool for serverless data analytics
I think they're talking about https://github.com/harelba/q, which is not very fast.
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sqly - execute SQL against CSV / JSON with shell
Apparently, there were many who thought the same thing; Tools to execute SQL against CSV were trdsql, q, csvq, TextQL. They were highly functional, hoewver, had many options and no input completion. I found it just a little difficult to use.
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Q – Run SQL Directly on CSV or TSV Files
Hi, author of q here.
Regarding the error you got, q currently does not autodetect headers, so you'd need to add -H as a flag in order to use the "country" column name. You're absolutely correct on failing-fast here - It's a bug which i'll fix.
In general regarding speed - q supports automatic caching of the CSV files (through the "-C readwrite" flag). Once it's activated, it will write the data into another file (with a .qsql extension), and will use it automatically in further queries in order to speed things considerably.
Effectively, the .qsql files are regular sqlite3 files (with some metadata), and q can be used to query them directly (or any regular sqlite3 file), including the ability to seamlessly join between multiple sqlite3 files.
http://harelba.github.io/q/#auto-caching-examples
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q VS trdsql - a user suggested alternative
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harelba/q is an open source project licensed under GNU General Public License v3.0 only which is an OSI approved license.
The primary programming language of q is Python.
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