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24 alternatives to An open source SOTA SQL Agent in 1k lines of code
TextQL open-sources Ana Small, a barebones text-to-SQL tool that outperforms every major competitor on complex benchmarks -- and it is free to use.
TextQL is an open source SQL agent built in approximately 1,000 lines of code. It enables users to query databases using natural language instead of writing SQL directly. The tool is designed for developers and data… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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Long story short: We (Dataherald) just open-sourced our entire codebase, including the core engine, the clients that interact with it and the backend application layer for authentication and RBAC. You can now use the full solution to build text-to-SQL into your product. The Problem: modern LLMs write syntactically correct SQL, but they struggle with real-world relational data. This is because real world data and schema is messy, natural language can often be ambiguous and LLMs are not trained on your specific dataset. Solution: The core NL-to-SQL engine in Dataherald is an LLM based agent…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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SnapQL is an open-source desktop app (built with Electron) that lets you query your Postgres database using natural language. It’s schema-aware, so you don’t need to copy-paste your schema or write complex SQL by hand. Everything runs locally — your OpenAI API key, your data, and your queries — so it's secure and private. Just connect your DB, describe what you want, and SnapQL writes and runs the SQL for you.
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Would love thoughts! Here is the HF page: https://huggingface.co/chatdb/natural-sql-7b
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hi everyone! I’m excited to open source GritQL, a Rust CLI for searching and transforming source code. GritQL comes from my experiences with conducting large scale refactors and migrations. Usually, I would start exploring a codebase with grep. This is easy to start with, but most migrations end up accumulating additional requirements like ensuring the right packages are imported and excluding cases which don’t have a viable migration path. Eventually, to build a complex migration, I usually ended up having to write a full codemod program with a tool like jscodeshift. This comes with its own…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Powerful PostgreSQL tool is now open source for self-hosting
2021 · supabase.com · its alternatives →
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Search for files using a fun query language. Contribute to kashav/fsql development by creating an account on GitHub.
2017 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hi everyone — thanks for your interest in PRQL — let us know any questions or feedback! We're excited to be releasing 0.2[1], the first version of PRQL you can use in your own projects. It wouldn't exist without the feedback we got from HackerNews when we originally posted the proposal. [1]: https://github.com/prql/prql/releases/tag/0.2.0
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A SQL database implemented purely in TypeScript type annotations. - codemix/ts-sql
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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I played around with GPT-3 to build this demo. Select a public BigQuery dataset and describe your query in natural English, then edit the generated SQL as needed and execute it. https://app.tabbydata.com/sql-assistant-demo
2021 · its alternatives →
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inferring sql queries from plain-text questions about tables - paulfitz/mlsql
2019 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Free browser-based SQL editor powered by DuckDB. Query and visualize CSV, JSON, Parquet and Arrow files locally or from remote URLs. No installation required.
2024 · sql-workbench.com · its alternatives →
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2019 · mprove.io · its alternatives →
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sqlTranslate▲94sql, data, analytics, database, query, syntax, translation
2023 · askai.free · its alternatives →
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I have been working on SQL Explorer, an open source, Django-based reporting and query tool for (gulp!) almost ten years. It's a tool that fits just right for me and many others, and I love and use almost every day. Write SQL, share results, do some analysis, get insight. No surprises. A live demo instance is here (no login or anything required): https://demo.sqlexplorer.io/ And here's a fairly unprofessional, but very enthusiastic, video tour: https://sql-explorer.s3.amazonaws.com/Sql+Explorer+5.mp4 The UI is constrained enough that there's very little to learn,…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Text2Query▲103Turn plain language into powerful database queries
2025 · text2query.com · its alternatives →
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Hey Hacker News! I wanted to share the open source project I have been working on during the last year: SQLPage, a tool to build small web applications entirely in SQL. Building web applications with just SQL isn't as crazy as it seems. Most simple applications can be expressed declaratively as just data queries that fill pre-defined web components. I'd love to hear your feedback and thoughts on it. Would you potentially use it? How can it be improved? Website: https://sql.ophir.dev/ Github: https://github.com/lovasoa/SQLpage Example app:…
2023 · sql.ophir.dev · its alternatives →
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