Query the Data Delivery Network
Query the DDNThe easiest way to query any data on Splitgraph is via the "Data Delivery Network" (DDN). The DDN is a single endpoint that speaks the PostgreSQL wire protocol. Any Splitgraph user can connect to it at data.splitgraph.com:5432 and query any version of over 40,000 datasets that are hosted or proxied by Splitgraph.
For example, you can query the weather_station_in_boulder_colorado_2015 table in this repository, by referencing it like:
"colorado-gov/weather-station-in-boulder-colorado-2015-pfjr-vhp3:latest"."weather_station_in_boulder_colorado_2015"or in a full query, like:
SELECT
":id", -- Socrata column ID
"turbulenceintensity80m", -- The turbulence intensity at 80 meters
"turbulenceintensity2m", -- The turbulence intensity at 2 meters
"avgwindshear", -- The average wind shear over that minute
"winddirectionpkws80m", -- The wind direction at the time of the peak wind speed, measured in degrees from north
"peakwindspeed80m", -- The highest value of wind speed over that minute, in m/s
"avgwindspeedstddev80m", -- The standard deviation of the wind speed, in m/s.
"avgwinddirectionstddev80m", -- The standard deviation of the wind direction, in m/s.
"avgwinddirection80m", -- The average wind direction over that minute, measured at 80 meters in degrees from north.
"avgwindspeed80m", -- The average wind speed over that minute, measured at 80 meters in m/s.
"peakwindspeed10m", -- The highest value of wind speed over that minute, in m/s
"avgwindspeedstddev10m", -- The standard deviation of the wind speed, in m/s.
"avgwinddirectionstddev10m", -- The standard deviation of the wind direction, in m/s.
"peakwindspeed2m", -- The highest value of wind speed over that minute, at 2 meters in m/s.
"avgwindspeedstddev2m", -- The standard deviation of the wind speed, at 2 meters in m/s.
"avgwinddirectionstddev2m", -- The standard deviation of the wind direction, at 2 meters in m/s.
"avgwinddirection2m", -- The average wind direction over that minute, measured at 2 meters in degrees from north.
"avgwindspeed2m", -- The average wind speed over that minute, measured at 2 meters in m/s.
"precipitationaccumulated", -- The amount of precipitation to fall during that day up to that minute, measured in mm
"stationpressure", -- The barometric pressure at the station, measured in mBar
"relhumidity", -- The relative humidity, as a percentage (eg 86.3)
"dewpoint", -- The dew point temperature, measured in degrees Celsius
"windchill", -- Wind chill factor
"temp80m", -- Temperature at 80 meters in degrees Celsius
"temp50m", -- Temperature at 50 meters in degrees Celsius
"temp2m", -- Temperature at 2 meters in degrees Celsius
"date", -- The date and time the data was recorded ( eg 02/20/2010 10:30)
"avgwindspeed10m", -- The average wind speed over that minute, measured at 10 meters in m/s.
"winddirectionpkws2m", -- The wind direction at the time of the peak wind speed, measured in degrees from north
"avgwinddirection10m", -- The average wind direction over that minute, measured at 10 meters in degrees from north.
"winddirectionpkws10m", -- The wind direction at the time of the peak wind speed, measured in degrees from north
"turbulenceintensity10m" -- The turbulence intensity at 10 meters
FROM
"colorado-gov/weather-station-in-boulder-colorado-2015-pfjr-vhp3:latest"."weather_station_in_boulder_colorado_2015"
LIMIT 100;Connecting to the DDN is easy. All you need is an existing SQL client that can connect to Postgres. As long as you have a SQL client ready, you'll be able to query colorado-gov/weather-station-in-boulder-colorado-2015-pfjr-vhp3 with SQL in under 60 seconds.
Query Your Local Engine
bash -c "$(curl -sL https://github.com/splitgraph/splitgraph/releases/latest/download/install.sh)"Read the installation docs.
Splitgraph Cloud is built around Splitgraph Core (GitHub), which includes a local Splitgraph Engine packaged as a Docker image. Splitgraph Cloud is basically a scaled-up version of that local Engine. When you query the Data Delivery Network or the REST API, we mount the relevant datasets in an Engine on our servers and execute your query on it.
It's possible to run this engine locally. You'll need a Mac, Windows or Linux system to install sgr, and a Docker installation to run the engine. You don't need to know how to actually use Docker; sgrcan manage the image, container and volume for you.
There are a few ways to ingest data into the local engine.
For external repositories, the Splitgraph Engine can "mount" upstream data sources by using sgr mount. This feature is built around Postgres Foreign Data Wrappers (FDW). You can write custom "mount handlers" for any upstream data source. For an example, we blogged about making a custom mount handler for HackerNews stories.
For hosted datasets (like this repository), where the author has pushed Splitgraph Images to the repository, you can "clone" and/or "checkout" the data using sgr cloneand sgr checkout.
Cloning Data
Because colorado-gov/weather-station-in-boulder-colorado-2015-pfjr-vhp3:latest is a Splitgraph Image, you can clone the data from Spltgraph Cloud to your local engine, where you can query it like any other Postgres database, using any of your existing tools.
First, install Splitgraph if you haven't already.
Clone the metadata with sgr clone
This will be quick, and does not download the actual data.
sgr clone colorado-gov/weather-station-in-boulder-colorado-2015-pfjr-vhp3Checkout the data
Once you've cloned the data, you need to "checkout" the tag that you want. For example, to checkout the latest tag:
sgr checkout colorado-gov/weather-station-in-boulder-colorado-2015-pfjr-vhp3:latestThis will download all the objects for the latest tag of colorado-gov/weather-station-in-boulder-colorado-2015-pfjr-vhp3 and load them into the Splitgraph Engine. Depending on your connection speed and the size of the data, you will need to wait for the checkout to complete. Once it's complete, you will be able to query the data like you would any other Postgres database.
Alternatively, use "layered checkout" to avoid downloading all the data
The data in colorado-gov/weather-station-in-boulder-colorado-2015-pfjr-vhp3:latest is 0 bytes. If this is too big to download all at once, or perhaps you only need to query a subset of it, you can use a layered checkout.:
sgr checkout --layered colorado-gov/weather-station-in-boulder-colorado-2015-pfjr-vhp3:latestThis will not download all the data, but it will create a schema comprised of foreign tables, that you can query as you would any other data. Splitgraph will lazily download the required objects as you query the data. In some cases, this might be faster or more efficient than a regular checkout.
Read the layered querying documentation to learn about when and why you might want to use layered queries.
Query the data with your existing tools
Once you've loaded the data into your local Splitgraph Engine, you can query it with any of your existing tools. As far as they're concerned, colorado-gov/weather-station-in-boulder-colorado-2015-pfjr-vhp3 is just another Postgres schema.