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 arpa_state_fiscal_recovery_quarterly_project table in this repository, by referencing it like:
"vermont-gov/arpa-state-fiscal-recovery-quarterly-project-nc3y-uag4:latest"."arpa_state_fiscal_recovery_quarterly_project"or in a full query, like:
SELECT
":id", -- Socrata column ID
"total_subaward_obligations", -- The total amount of ARPA SFR dollars obligated for greater than or equal to $50,000. Subawards include grants, contracts, and direct payments.
"total_aggregate_obligations", -- The total amount of ARPA SFR dollars obligated for awards less than $50,000 and disbursements to individuals.
"project_identification_number", -- The unique identification number associated with the project used for tracking purposes.
"project_name", -- The name of the project.
"project_description", -- A brief description of the project.
"total_aggregate_expenditures", -- The total amount of ARPA SFR dollars expended for awards less than $50,000 and disbursements to individuals.
"total_subaward_expenditures", -- The total amount of ARPA SFR dollars expended for greater than or equal to $50,000. Subawards include grants, contracts, and direct payments
"total_expenditures", -- The total amount ofARPA SFR dollars expended through this project as of reporting quarter end. An expenditure is the amount that has been incurred as a liability of the entity (the service has been rendered or the good has been delivered to the entity)
"entity", -- The acronym associated with the unit responsible for reporting on the project.
"number_of_subawards", -- The total number of subawards greater than or equal to $50,000. Subawards include grants, contracts, and direct payments
"project_expenditure_category", -- The expenditure category the project is associated with. A project can only have one expenditure category.
"project_status", -- The current status of the project.
"project_expenditure", -- The expenditure subcategory the project is associated with.
"project_allocation", -- The amount of ARPA SFR dollars allocated for the project.
"total_obligations" -- The total amount of ARPA SFR dollars obligated through this project as of reporting quarter end. An obligation is an order placed for property and services, contracts and subawards made, and similar transactions that require payment
FROM
"vermont-gov/arpa-state-fiscal-recovery-quarterly-project-nc3y-uag4:latest"."arpa_state_fiscal_recovery_quarterly_project"
LIMIT 100;Connecting to the DDN is easy. All you need is an existing SQL client that can connect to Postgres. As long as you have a SQL client ready, you'll be able to query vermont-gov/arpa-state-fiscal-recovery-quarterly-project-nc3y-uag4 with SQL in under 60 seconds.
Query Your Local Engine
bash -c "$(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 vermont-gov/arpa-state-fiscal-recovery-quarterly-project-nc3y-uag4: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 vermont-gov/arpa-state-fiscal-recovery-quarterly-project-nc3y-uag4Checkout 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 vermont-gov/arpa-state-fiscal-recovery-quarterly-project-nc3y-uag4:latestThis will download all the objects for the latest tag of vermont-gov/arpa-state-fiscal-recovery-quarterly-project-nc3y-uag4 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 vermont-gov/arpa-state-fiscal-recovery-quarterly-project-nc3y-uag4: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 vermont-gov/arpa-state-fiscal-recovery-quarterly-project-nc3y-uag4: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, vermont-gov/arpa-state-fiscal-recovery-quarterly-project-nc3y-uag4 is just another Postgres schema.