Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to gq – like jq or zq, but you use Go
Hi HN. I've gotten pretty tired of needing to learn a custom programming language for a tool I use once a week or less. So I figured, it might be easier to pick up if `jq` used a programming language I already know. Voila, gq.
gq is a JSON query tool similar to jq, but uses Go as its query language instead of jq's custom syntax. It lets users who already know Go query and transform JSON data without learning a separate language. The tool… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. gq – like jq or zq, but you use Go launched in 2022; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Easy JSON Query Processor with a Lispy syntax in Go - cube2222/jql
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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JSON Query▲154I'm working on a tool that will probably involve querying JSON documents and I'm asking myself how to expose that functionality to my users. I like the power of `jq` and the fact that LLMs are proficient at it, but I find it right out impossible to come up with the right `jq` incantations myself. Has anyone here been in a similar situation? Which tool / language did you end up exposing to your users?
Oct 2025 · jsonquerylang.org · its alternatives →
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Interactive JSON filter using jq. Contribute to ynqa/jnv development by creating an account on GitHub.
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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SQL micro-dialect implementation for querying JSON objects. Written purely in Scala. - mmalek06/JsonSql
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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jq extension for Postgres. Contribute to Florents-Tselai/pgJQ development by creating an account on GitHub.
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Easy-to-use JSON Library for Go. Contribute to antonholmquist/jason development by creating an account on GitHub.
2014 · github.com · its alternatives →
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simplest possible native GUI for inspecting JSON objects with jq - fiatjaf/jqview
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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There have been a few times I wanted the ability to select some text out of a Markdown doc. For example, a GitHub CI check to ensure that PRs / issues / etc are properly formatted. This can be done to some extent with regex, but those expressions are brittle and hard to read or edit later. mdq uses a familiar pipe syntax to navigate the Markdown in a structured way. It's in 0.x because I don't want to fully commit to the syntax being stable, in case real-world testing shows that the syntax needs tweaking. But I think the project is in a pretty good spot overall, and would be…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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LINQ for Go▲84.NET LINQ capabilities in Go. Contribute to ahmetb/go-linq development by creating an account on GitHub.
2014 · github.com · its alternatives →
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qq is jq inspired interoperable config format transcoder with interactive querying. It features an optional interactive editor with autocomplete for structured data. And supports inputs and outputs for json, xml, ini, toml, yaml, hcl, tf, and csv to varying degrees of capability.
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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After two years of improvement, I think it's time to share it with you all. Here’s a quick overview: - Common features include validation, formatting, minification, and more. - Visualize JSON in a graph or table view. - Structured comparison with fallback to text comparison. - Navigate though JSON using JSON pointer. - Supports jq. Would love to hear the community's questions, thoughts and comments!
2024 · github.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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Hey HN! Jaiqu is an AI agent for creating repeatable JSON transforms using jq query language syntax. Jaiqu translates complex JSON structures into repeatable jq queries. jq is a command line utility built for fast, reliable JSON queries. Jaiqu takes advantage of the LLMs for both constructing jq queries as well as using feedback to fix errors/invalid results if those queries are incorrect. Writing code to parse JSON is super annoying. It usually involves manually reading huge JSON balls, parsing the keys in a language of your choice, and pulling the data manually. Also, you're likely to…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A query language for JSON-like structures
2021 · mistql.com · its alternatives →
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Query CSVs using SQL. Contribute to jolmg/cq development by creating an account on GitHub.
2019 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Interactive jq tutorial: learn to filter and wrangle JSON files using a command-line interface in your browser.
2021 · sandbox.bio · its alternatives →
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high performance JSON encoder/decoder with stream API for Golang - GitHub - francoispqt/gojay: high performance JSON encoder/decoder with stream API for Golang
2018 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Recently created a minimal persistent relational database in Go. Main focus was on implementing & understanding working the of database, storage management & transaction handling. Use of B+ Tree for storage engine(support for indexing), managing a Free List (for reusing nodes), Support for transactions, Concurrent Reads. Still have many things to add & fix like query processing being one of the main & fixing some bugs Repo link - https://github.com/Sahilb315/AtomixDB Would love to hear your thoughts
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hey, For those of you who don't know my little tool Musoq, I wanted to introduce it as a small tool that allows you to query with SQL-like syntax without any database. It allows you to query various things from niche ones like CAN DBC files, weird ones like C# code, interesting ones with Git querying to regular stuff like CSV, TSV and various others. I am quite a bit experimenting with various things so I'm hybridizing the engine with LLMs or doing other weird stuff that are more or less practical :-) I wanted also to share some recent developments in this little project as I hope it might…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hiya HN! TextQuery is my sabbatical project that I have been working on for the past six months. It was born out of a personal pain point. Anytime I wanted to analyze raw CSV data, I had to create a schema first before I could import it for querying. And to create charts, I had to use yet another tool. I also disliked how bad charts from popular tools like Excel, Google Sheets looked like. I wanted an easier way to do this and TextQuery was my solution: an all-in-one tool to query CSV files using SQL and create beautiful visualizations as well. Currently, it's a macOS app and focused on CSV…
2025 · textquery.app · its alternatives →
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Anyquery▲110Query anything with SQL (e.g. Notion, GitHub, JSON)
2024 · anyquery.dev · its alternatives →
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I've always been curious about how SQL engines actually work. So I built a minimum viable SQL engine in Go. - Supports CSV files as tables - Supports SELECT, FROM, WHERE, LIMIT It's very simple: 1. Parses query string 2. Converts it into an AST representation 3. Executes the query against the CSV 4. Returns the results
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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