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Query the Data Delivery Network

Query the DDN

The 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 resident_survey_2022_demographics table in this repository, by referencing it like:

"norfolk-gov/resident-survey-2022-demographics-f3mt-z6yp:latest"."resident_survey_2022_demographics"

or in a full query, like:

SELECT
    ":id", -- Socrata column ID
    "response_method_mail_or_web", -- Indicates if the survey respondent responded via mail or web
    "question_category", -- The overall category that the survey question falls under
    "question", -- The survey question
    "question_response", -- The response that the resident provided to the survey question
    "number_of_responses", -- The number of responses, grouped by Response Method, Random Sample Survey, Demographic Question, Demographic Response, Question Category, Question, and Response
    "demographic_response", -- The response provided by the survey respondent regarding their demographic information
    "demographic_question", -- The question asked to the survey respondent regarding their demographic information
    "random_sample_survey" -- Indicates whether the survey response was part of the random sample of Norfolk households or rather the response was from the general public survey link. (Yes = responses are part of the random sample of city households; No = responses are not part of the random sample of city households)
FROM
    "norfolk-gov/resident-survey-2022-demographics-f3mt-z6yp:latest"."resident_survey_2022_demographics"
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 norfolk-gov/resident-survey-2022-demographics-f3mt-z6yp with SQL in under 60 seconds.

Query Your Local Engine

Install Splitgraph Locally
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 norfolk-gov/resident-survey-2022-demographics-f3mt-z6yp: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 norfolk-gov/resident-survey-2022-demographics-f3mt-z6yp

Checkout 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 norfolk-gov/resident-survey-2022-demographics-f3mt-z6yp:latest

This will download all the objects for the latest tag of norfolk-gov/resident-survey-2022-demographics-f3mt-z6yp 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 norfolk-gov/resident-survey-2022-demographics-f3mt-z6yp: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 norfolk-gov/resident-survey-2022-demographics-f3mt-z6yp:latest

This 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, norfolk-gov/resident-survey-2022-demographics-f3mt-z6yp is just another Postgres schema.

Related Documentation:

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