dsq mit Homebrew, MacPorts, Nix, pacman installieren

Projektlinks

• Homepage
• Upstream-Dokumentation
• Paketmanager-Seite

Befehle und Aliase

• dsq

Projektgeschichte

The README presents dsq as a CLI companion to DataStation, the Multiprocess Labs GUI for querying data files. Its implementation approach is SQLite-centered, which made it convenient and portable for mixed local files but eventually less attractive than columnar/vectorized analytics engines.

The release history moved quickly through 2022: 0.15 added query-file and cache flags, 0.16 added an interactive REPL, 0.22 added logfmt support, and v0.23.0 fixed nested JSON handling. The README later opened with a not-under-active-development notice and recommended DuckDB, ClickHouse-local, and GlareDB instead.

Adoptionsgeschichte

dsq's adoption came from the CLI data-wrangling crowd: people who wanted `jq`-adjacent convenience but preferred SQL over local structured files. It shipped Homebrew installation instructions in the README and has also appeared in MacPorts, Nix, and Arch packages.

Homebrew analytics showed 159 installs over the preceding 365 days during this batch, consistent with a useful but superseded utility.

Wie es verwendet wird

Typical use is `dsq file.json 'SELECT ... FROM {}'`, piping data with `-s`, joining multiple files as numbered tables, pretty-printing results, dumping inferred schema, caching imported data, or using the interactive REPL added in the 0.16 line.

Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

dsq is package-nerd significant because it marks a short transitional moment in local data tools: single-binary SQL over arbitrary files before DuckDB became the obvious answer for many of the same workflows. Its own README now documents that transition by pointing users away from dsq toward stronger analytics engines.

Zeitleiste

• 2022-04-20: 0.15.0 added query-file and cache support.
• 2022-04-26: 0.16.0 added a basic interactive REPL.
• 2022-08-26: v0.22.0 added logfmt support.
• 2022-10-20: v0.23.0 fixed nested JSON query handling and is the Homebrew stable version recorded for this batch.
• Later README state: Upstream marked the project not under active development and recommended DuckDB, ClickHouse-local, and GlareDB.

Related projects

• DataStation is the GUI companion project named by the README.
• DuckDB, ClickHouse-local, and GlareDB are the README's recommended successors or alternatives.
• SQLite is the underlying style of engine the README contrasts with newer columnar/vectorized systems.
• jq is a common neighboring CLI in local JSON/data-wrangling workflows.

Quellen

• https://github.com/multiprocessio/dsq#readme
• https://github.com/multiprocessio/dsq/releases/tag/0.15.0
• https://github.com/multiprocessio/dsq/releases/tag/0.16.0
• https://github.com/multiprocessio/dsq/releases/tag/v0.22.0
• https://github.com/multiprocessio/dsq/releases/tag/v0.23.0
• https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/dsq