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24 alternatives to LLQL

A tool to run SQL query with pattern matching on LLVM IR/BC

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. LLQL launched in 2024; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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FSQL – Search through your file system with SQL-esque queries▲341
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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My LLM CLI tool can run tools now, from Python code or plugins▲529
LLM 0.26 is out with the biggest new feature since I started the project: support for tools. You can now use the LLM CLI tool—and Python library—to grant LLMs from …
2025 · simonwillison.net · its alternatives →
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We open sourced our entire text-to-SQL product▲464
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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OctoSQL – Query and join multiple databases and files, written in Go▲310
OctoSQL is a query tool that allows you to join, analyse and transform data from multiple databases and file formats using SQL. - cube2222/octosql
2019 · github.com · its alternatives →
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jql – Easier jq Alternative with a Lispy Syntax Written in Go▲217
Easy JSON Query Processor with a Lispy syntax in Go - cube2222/jql
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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ShapedQL▲211
The SQL engine for search, feeds, and AI agents
Jan 2026 · its alternatives →
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GritQL, a Rust CLI for rewriting source code▲280
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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cq – Query CSVs using SQL▲80
Query CSVs using SQL. Contribute to jolmg/cq development by creating an account on GitHub.
2019 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Query Your Sheets with SheetSQL▲128
Hello HN! I've developed a tool named SheetSQL that allows you to query, join, export, and schedule your queries to Google Sheets through a straightforward SQL interface in the browser. This tool is a simple, first iteration of the idea, so I'm eager to receive feedback on it. You can contact me at taras [at] sheetsql.io :D. I'd love to find out if it could be useful for folks out there! As someone working in fintech, I constantly deal with sheets and often find it challenging to perform seemingly simple tasks like JOINs natively. However, I'm familiar with SQL, which inspired the creation…
2024 · sheetsql.io · its alternatives →
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I wrote an open-source browser alternative for Computer Use for any LLM▲180
Hey HN, I made Browser-Use, an open-source tool that lets (all Langchain supported) LLMs execute tasks directly in the browser just with function calling. It allows you to build agents that interact with web elements using natural language prompts. We created a layer that simplifies website interaction for LLMs by extracting xPaths and interactive elements like buttons and input fields (and other fancy things). This enables you to design custom web automation and scraping functions without manual inspection through DevTools. Hasn't this been done a lot of times? Good question, as a general…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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DB-GPT, an LLM tool for database▲156
open-source agentic AI data assistant for the next generation of AI + Data products. - eosphoros-ai/DB-GPT
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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SnapQL – Desktop app to query Postgres with AI▲104
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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PipeSQL – Building SQL queries bottom-up using pipes and filters▲36
2014 · pipesql.com · its alternatives →
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PyQL▲15
A tool to run SQL queries on Python files built using GitQL
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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CodeQL-Like Analyzer for Go▲39
Define and run pattern-based custom linting rules. - quasilyte/go-ruleguard
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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JQL by Mixpanel▲96
A powerful new query language to analyze your data
2016 · mixpanel.com · its alternatives →
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OpenSheet▲86
Hi folks. I've been doing some experiments on how LLMs could get more handy in the day to day of working with files (CSV, Parquet, etc). Earlier last year, I built https://datakit.page and evolved it over and over into an all in-browser experience with help of duckdb-wasm. Got loads of feedbacks and I think it turned into a good shape with being an adhoc local data studio, but I kept hearing two main things/issues: Why can't the AI also change cells in the file we give to it? Why can't we modify this grid ourselves? So besides the whole READ and text-to-SQL flows, what seemed…
Feb 2026 · opensheet.app · its alternatives →
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ShapedQL – A SQL engine for multi-stage ranking and RAG▲80
Hi HN, I’m Tullie, founder of Shaped. Previously, I was a researcher at Meta AI, worked on ranking for Instagram Reels, and was a contributor to PyTorch Lightning. We built ShapedQL because we noticed that while retrieval (finding 1,000 items) has been commoditized by vector DBs, ranking (finding the best 10 items) is still an infrastructure problem. To build a decent for you feed or a RAG system with long-term memory, you usually have to put together a vector DB (Pinecone/Milvus), a feature store (Redis), an inference service, and thousands of lines of Python to handle business logic…
Jan 2026 · playground.shaped.ai · its alternatives →
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SPyQL – SQL with Python in the middle▲105
SPyQL (https://github.com/dcmoura/spyql) is SQL with Python in the middle, an open-source project fully written in Python for making command-line data processing more intuitive, readable and powerful. Try mixing in the same pot: a SQL SELECT for providing the structure, Python expressions for defining transformations and conditions, the essence of awk as a data-processing language, and the JSON handling capabilities of jq. How does a SPyQL query looks like? $ spyql “ IMPORT pendulum AS p SELECT (p.now() - p.from_timestamp(purchase_ts)).in_days() AS days_ago, sum_agg(price…
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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GoSQL – A query engine in 319 LoC▲81
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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Musoq – Query Anything with SQL Syntax (Git, C#, CSV, Can DBC)▲56
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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JinjaSQL – Generate SQL Queries using a Jinja Template▲77
Template Language for SQL with Automatic Bind Parameter Extraction - sripathikrishnan/jinjasql
2016 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Querying JSON documents using SQL-like language in Scala▲70
SQL micro-dialect implementation for querying JSON objects. Written purely in Scala. - mmalek06/JsonSql
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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ClangQL – Query C++ codebases using SQLite▲73
Query C++ codebases using SQLite. Contribute to frabert/ClangQL development by creating an account on GitHub.
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →

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