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 occupational_employment_and_wage_statistics table in this repository, by referencing it like:
"ny-gov/occupational-employment-and-wage-statistics-gkgz-nw24:latest"."occupational_employment_and_wage_statistics"or in a full query, like:
SELECT
":id", -- Socrata column ID
"experienced_wage", -- Experienced wage - Average of the top two thirds of wages in an occupation.
"employment", -- Occupational Employment – The number of part-time and full-time workers who are paid a wage or salary
"median", -- Median Wage
"area_type", -- Type of Area: 1 - Statewide, 10 - Labor Market Region
"area", -- Geographic Area Code: 1 - Capital Region; 2 - Central New York Region; 3 - Finger Lakes Region; 4 - Hudson Valley Region; 5 - Long Island Region; 6 - Mohawk Valley Region; 7 - New York City Region; 8 - North Country Region; 9 - Southern Tier Region; 10 - Western New York Region; 36 - New York Statewide.
"area_name", -- New York State consists of 62 counties. Counties are the building blocks used to build progressively larger geographic areas for which labor market statistics are reported. New York has 10 Labor market regions: Capital Region - Albany, Columbia, Greene, Rensselaer, Saratoga, Schenectady, Warren, and Washington counties. Central New York Region - Cayuga, Cortland, Onondaga, and Oswego counties. Finger Lakes Region - Genesee, Livingston, Monroe, Ontario, Orleans, Seneca, Wayne, Wyoming, and Yates counties. Hudson Valley Region - Dutchess, Orange, Putnam, Rockland, Sullivan, Ulster and Westchester counties. Long Island Region - Nassau and Suffolk counties. Mohawk Valley Region - Fulton, Herkimer, Madison, Montgomery, Oneida, and Schoharie counties. New York City Region - Bronx, Kings, New York, Queens and Richmond counties. North Country Region - Clinton, Essex, Franklin, Hamilton, Jefferson, Lewis, and St. Lawrence counties. Southern Tier Region - Broome, Chemung, Chenango, Delaware, Otsego, Schuyler, Steuben, Tioga, and Tompkins counties. Western New York Region - Allegany, Cattaraugus, Chautauqua, Erie, and Niagara counties. New York State - The aggregate of all counties in New York
"standard_occupational_code", -- Standardized coding structure used to identify occupational titles
"occupational_title", -- The OEWS survey categorizes workers into 821 detailed occupations based on the Office of Management and Budget’s 2010 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. Together, these detailed occupations make up 22 of the 23 SOC major occupational groups. Major group 55, Military Specific Occupations, is not included
"entry_wage", -- Entry Wage - Average of bottom third of wages in an occupation.
"mean" -- Average Wage
FROM
"ny-gov/occupational-employment-and-wage-statistics-gkgz-nw24:latest"."occupational_employment_and_wage_statistics"
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 ny-gov/occupational-employment-and-wage-statistics-gkgz-nw24 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 ny-gov/occupational-employment-and-wage-statistics-gkgz-nw24: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 ny-gov/occupational-employment-and-wage-statistics-gkgz-nw24Checkout 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 ny-gov/occupational-employment-and-wage-statistics-gkgz-nw24:latestThis will download all the objects for the latest tag of ny-gov/occupational-employment-and-wage-statistics-gkgz-nw24 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 ny-gov/occupational-employment-and-wage-statistics-gkgz-nw24: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 ny-gov/occupational-employment-and-wage-statistics-gkgz-nw24: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, ny-gov/occupational-employment-and-wage-statistics-gkgz-nw24 is just another Postgres schema.