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 spae table in this repository, by referencing it like:
"datos-gov-co/spae-qas9-5tya:latest"."spae"or in a full query, like:
SELECT
":id", -- Socrata column ID
"agricultor_a_campesino", -- se conoce como agricultor campesino familar y comunitario
"interesado_en_recibir_oferta", -- capacitacion que ayuda al productor a tener mayor conocimiento
"area_total_del_predio", -- cantidad de hectareas que contiene el area
"servicios_domesticos_con", -- si el predio cuenta con servicios establecidos
"predio_registrado_ante_el", -- si el predio esta registrado ante el ICA
"figura_de_tenencia_del_predio", -- lugar donde se ubica el predio para dicho servicio prestado
"municipio_pdet", -- conoce los programas de desarrollo con enfoque territorial
"accede_a_internet_de_la", -- si tiene acceso a internet
"registrado_como", -- si tenia alguna produccion de peces
"pertenece_a_alguna_figura", -- pertenese a alguna asociacion o junta
"unidad_de_medida_del_area_1", -- cantidad en hectarias donde se siembra el cafe
"participa_en_espacios_como", -- pertenece a alguna organizacion
"ejerce_los_mecanismos_de", -- ejerce mecanismos de participacion ciudadana
"conoce_los_ecanismos_de", -- Conoce los mecanismos de participacion ciudadano
"vereda_en_que_se_ubica_el", -- lugar donde se situa dicho servicio
"medio_de_transporte_que_usa", -- tipo de medio de trasporte que se usa para la extraccion de productos
"area_total_productiva_usada", -- area del predio que se ocupa en cultivacion
"vende_la_mayoria_de_los", -- lugar dinde destribuye o vende
"fecha_de_registro", -- fecha donde se realizo la encuesta
"nombre_del_predio_o_finca", -- lugar donde se destina el servicio publico
"nombre_de_la_organizacion", -- nombre de la asociacion o vereda a la que pertenece
"actualmente_es_usuario_usuaria", -- si tiene asistencia tecnica segun el cultivo
"descripcion_de_lineas", -- linea productiva 1 ( cafe )
"beneficiario_a_de_procesos", -- si viene de conflicto armado
"cuenta_con_agua_potable", -- si cuenta con planta o acueducto
"registrado_a_en_el_sisben", -- si esta registrado en el SISBEN
"departamento", -- Departamento donde esta ubicado el lote
"conoce_y_o_gestiona_planes", -- en la comunidad solicita proyectos agropecuarios
"municipio", -- Municipio de ubicaciuon del lote
"grado_de_escolaridad_y_nivel", -- Educacion del dueño del predio
"pertenencia_etnica", -- pertenencia etnica
"cantidad_de_personas_que", -- cantidad de usuarios del predio
"disponibilidad_de_agua_en", -- si constante el agua o temporal
"beneficiario_a_del_fondo", -- Si a tenido beneficios del pograma fondo nacional de tierras
"beneficiario_a_del_programa", -- En el lote anterior mente se sembraba cultivos para uso ilicito
"permisos_y_o_licencias", -- si tiene los permisos necesarios y regentes
"estado_en_que_se_encuentra", -- estado en que se encuentra, bueno o malo
"fuente_de_donde_proviene", -- fuente de donde extrae el agua
"tiempo_que_tarda_en_llegar", -- distancia en tiempo que usa para llegar al muniicpio
"poblacion_sujeta_de_los", -- personas que sean beneficiado con el programa de desarrollo con enfoque territorial
"tipos_de_acceso_vial_con", -- clasificacion de estado de la via en la que se encuentra
"unidad_de_medida_del_area", -- cantidad de area que el productor toma para agropecuario
"condicion_de_victima_en_los" -- si es vectima del conflicto
FROM
"datos-gov-co/spae-qas9-5tya:latest"."spae"
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 datos-gov-co/spae-qas9-5tya 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 datos-gov-co/spae-qas9-5tya: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 datos-gov-co/spae-qas9-5tyaCheckout 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 datos-gov-co/spae-qas9-5tya:latestThis will download all the objects for the latest tag of datos-gov-co/spae-qas9-5tya 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 datos-gov-co/spae-qas9-5tya: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 datos-gov-co/spae-qas9-5tya: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, datos-gov-co/spae-qas9-5tya is just another Postgres schema.