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PipeSQL is a development tool that helps build SQL queries using a pipes-and-filters approach. Rather than writing queries from top-down, it constructs them bottom-up by chaining together modular components. 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. PipeSQL – Building SQL queries bottom-up using pipes and filters launched in 2014; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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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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    Get and manipulate data with a visual programming interface.

    2017 · pipes.digital · its alternatives →

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    Through months of design, prototypes, and user tests we made a visual version of SQL - which has proven to enable 80% of business users to write complex quer…

    2020 · chartio.com · its alternatives →

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    Open-source tutorial website to learn GraphQL development

    2017 · howtographql.com · its alternatives →

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    Contribute to akdor1154/python-csql development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2020 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    We’re Robin, Louis, and Thomas. Pipelex is a DSL and a Python runtime for repeatable AI workflows. Think Dockerfile/SQL for multi-step LLM pipelines: you declare steps and interfaces; any model/provider can fill them. Why this instead of yet another workflow builder? - Declarative, not glue code: you state what to do; the runtime figures out how. - Agent-first: each step carries natural-language context (purpose, inputs/outputs with meaning) so LLMs can follow, audit, and optimize. Our MCP server enables agents to run pipelines but also to build new pipelines on demand. - Open…

    Oct 2025 · 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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    ShapedQL▲211

    The SQL engine for search, feeds, and AI agents

    Jan 2026 · 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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    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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    Instantly query your cloud, code, logs & more with SQL. Build on thousands of open-source benchmarks & dashboards for security & insights.

    2021 · steampipe.io · its alternatives →

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    Open-source database that runs SQL queries continuously

    2015 · its alternatives →

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    GraphQL for Postgres. Contribute to solidsnack/GraphpostgresQL development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2015 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    soarSQL▲98

    The analytical SQL editor - powered by duckDB

    2025 · its alternatives →

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    QuellQL▲84

    Quell provides a caching solution for GraphQL

    2021 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Skip SQL and chat with your Postgresql database

    2025 · queryhub.ai · its alternatives →

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    PugSQL is a Python library for interacting with your database the way the gods intended.

    2019 · pugsql.org · its alternatives →

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    Hey all, I just released v2.0.0 of FilterQL, a query language and TypeScript library. This version adds support for Operations, which allow you to transform the data after filtering. If you think this would be useful in a project you're working on, give it a try and let me know what you think!

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    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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    PyQL▲15

    A tool to run SQL queries on Python files built using GitQL

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Quell▲71

    The lightweight caching solution for GraphQL queries

    2023 · quell.dev · its alternatives →

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    IrisQL▲82

    GraphQL schema made easy

    2020 · its alternatives →

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    Seeknal▲57

    Data & AI/ML CLI for pipelines and NL queries

    Apr 2026 · seeknal.exe.xyz · 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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