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24 alternatives to soarSQL

The analytical SQL editor - powered by duckDB

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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    I built Duck-UI, a web-based SQL editor that runs DuckDB entirely in your browser via WebAssembly. No backend required. The Problem: Every time I needed to query csv, parquet, or even to play with SQL, I had to either: (a) spin up a Jupyter notebook (b) use the CLI (c) upload to a hosted service. Friction at every step (TOO MUCH to load a csv or even to test some sql (study)... The Solution: DuckDB's WASM runtime lets us run SQL analysis client-side. Load CSV/JSON/Parquet files from disk or URL, write SQL, get results instantly. Data stays on your machine. What It Does: SQL editor…

    2025 · demo.duckui.com · its alternatives →

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    Write SQL without knowing SQL

    2023 · supabase.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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    hi hn, hydra ceo here hydra is an open source, column-oriented postgres. you can set up remarkably fast aggregates on your project in minutes to query billions of rows instantly. postgres is great, but aggregates can take minutes to hours to return results on large data sets. long-running analytical queries hog database resources and degrade performance. use hydra to run much faster analytics on postgres without making code changes. data is automatically loaded into columnar format and compressed. connect to hydra with your preferred postgres client (psql, dbeaver, etc). following 4 months…

    2023 · hydra-so.notion.site · 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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    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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    Hey HN! We’ve built Pretzel, an open-source data exploration and visualization tool that runs fully in the browser and can handle large files (200 MB CSV on my 8gb MacBook air is snappy). It’s also reactive - so if, for example, you change a filter, all the data transform blocks after it re-evaluate automatically. You can try it here: https://pretzelai.github.io/ (static hosted webpage) or see a demo video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73wNEun_L7w You can play with the demo CSV that’s pre-loaded (GitHub data of text-editor adjacent projects) or upload…

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    WhatTheDuck is an in-browser sql tool to analyze csv files that uses duckdb-wasm under the hood. Please provide feedback/issues/pull requests.

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    I created a web page to compare different analytical databases (both self-managed and services, open-source and proprietary) on a realistic dataset. It contains 20+ databases, each with installation and data loading scripts. And they can be compared to each other on a set of 43 queries, by data load time or by storage size. There are switches to select different types of databases for comparison - for example, only MySQL compatible or PostgreSQL compatible. If you play with the switches, many interesting details will be uncovered. Full description:…

    2022 · benchmark.clickhouse.com · its alternatives →

  10. 10HO

    hi hn, hydra ceo here hydra is an open-source extension that adds columnar tables to Postgres for efficient analytical reporting. With Hydra, you can analyze billions of rows instantly without changing code. demo video (5 min): https://youtu.be/1yzxgb0Oyrw github repo: https://github.com/hydradatabase/hydra For 1.0 GA release, aggregate queries are over *60% faster* than Hydra beta due to aggregate vectorization. Spatial indexes (gin, gist, spgist, and rum indexes) and pg_hint_plan are now enabled for performance optimization. postgres is great, but…

    2023 · hydra.so · its alternatives →

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    From the company behind Dolt—the world's first fully versioned database—comes DoltgreSQL, which implements PostgreSQL's variant of SQL. DoltgreSQL is at a very early stage, and we have quite a lot of work left to do, but we'd love to hear all thoughts and opinions! You can read more in the announcement blog post: https://www.dolthub.com/blog/2023-11-01-announcing-doltgresq...

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Powerful online SQL sandbox

    2024 · sqlplayground.app · its alternatives →

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    DuckDB for streaming data. Contribute to turbolytics/sql-flow development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2024 · github.com · 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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    A SQL spreadsheet desktop app that queries and visualizes CSV files using SQL.

    2021 · superintendent.app · its alternatives →

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    Quick and dirty duckdb in the browser, parquet!

    2025 · quak.dev · its alternatives →

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    Try running a query anywhere from PostgreSQL to DuckDB without leaving your browser.

    2023 · codapi.org · its alternatives →

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    Data analytics made easy 📊

    2019 · its alternatives →

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    Anyquery▲110

    Query 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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    Postgres extension that speeds up analytics queries by upto 90% - sushrut141/pg_analytica

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    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 →

  23. 23CQ

    Import CSVs, write SQL, and instantly share it with anyone. Runs 100% in-browser, so you're in control of your data.

    2022 · csvfiddle.io · its alternatives →

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    Start innovating your database productivity with SQLGate - Oracle, SQLServer, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, DB2, and Tibero!

    2019 · sqlgate.com · its alternatives →

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