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AI · August 23, 2023

Dataherald AI – Natural Language to SQL Engine

Hi HN community. We are excited to open source Dataherald’s natural-language-to-SQL engine today (https://github.com/Dataherald/dataherald). This engine allows you to set up an API from your structured database that can answer questions in plain English. GPT-4 class LLMs have gotten remarkably good at writing SQL. However, out-of-the-box LLMs and existing frameworks would not work with our own structured data at a necessary quality level. For example, given the question “what was the average rent in Los Angeles in May 2023?” a reasonable human would either assume the…

Dataherald AI – Natural Language to SQL Engine launched on August 23, 2023 with 215 votes, #175 of 4,347 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 3 years on.

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In plain words

Dataherald AI is an open-source engine that converts natural language questions into SQL queries for structured databases. It enables users to set up an API that answers plain English questions by querying database tables directly. The engine addresses limitations in standard large language models by improving accuracy when handling ambiguous queries, such as distinguishing between multiple cities with the same name or understanding implicit context in questions.

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Interact with your SQL database, Natural Language to SQL using LLMs - Dataherald/dataherald

In the maker’s words, at launch

Hi HN community. We are excited to open source Dataherald’s natural-language-to-SQL engine today (https://github.com/Dataherald/dataherald). This engine allows you to set up an API from your structured database that can answer questions in plain English. GPT-4 class LLMs have gotten remarkably…

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