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 ems_ambulance_responses_by_month table in this repository, by referencing it like:
"datahub-austintexas-gov/ems-ambulance-responses-by-month-bptg-ndvw:latest"."ems_ambulance_responses_by_month"or in a full query, like:
SELECT
":id", -- Socrata column ID
"percent_responses_into_coa_or_tc_by_tc", -- Percent of responses into City of Austin or Travis County by units stationed in Travis County.
"count_responses_into_coa_or_tc_by_tc", -- Count of responses into City of Austin or Travis County by units stationed in Travis County.
"count_responses_all", -- Count of all responses by regularly scheduled ATCEMS ambulances
"count_responses_into_tc", -- Count of all responses by regularly scheduled ATCEMS ambulances into Travis County.
"count_responses_into_other", -- Count of all responses by regularly scheduled ATCEMS ambulances outside the ATCEMS service area.
"month_key", -- Key field containing year and month in <yyyymm> format.
"count_responses_into_coa_or_tc", -- Count of all responses by regularly scheduled ATCEMS ambulances into City of Austin or Travis County.
"percent_responses_into_coa_by_coa", -- Percent of responses into the City of Austin performed by ambulances stationed in the City of Austin.
"count_responses_into_coa", -- Count of all responses by regularly scheduled ATCEMS ambulances into the City of Austin.
"percent_responses_into_coa_or_tc_by_coa", -- Percent of responses into City of Austin or Travis County by units stationed in the City of Austin.
"month_start_date", -- Month and Year being reported.
"count_responses_into_other_by_tc", -- Count of responses into "Other" areas by units stationed in Travis County.
"count_responses_into_coa_or_tc_by_coa", -- Count of responses into City of Austin or Travis County by units stationed in the City of Austin.
"percent_responses_into_other_by_tc", -- Percent of responses into "Other" areas performed by ambulances stationed in Travis County.
"percent_responses_into_tc_by_tc", -- Percent of responses into Travis County performed by ambulances stationed in Travis County.
"percent_responses_into_other_by_coa", -- Percent of responses into "Other" areas performed by ambulances stationed in the City of Austin.
"percent_responses_into_coa_by_tc", -- Percent of responses into the City of Austin performed by ambulances stationed in Travis County.
"count_responses_into_coa_by_tc", -- Count of responses by ATCEMS ambulances stationed in Travis County into the City of Austin.
"count_responses_into_tc_by_coa", -- Count of responses by ATCEMS ambulances stationed in the City of Austin into Travis County.
"count_responses_into_other_by_coa", -- Count of responses into "Other" areas by units stationed in the City of Austin.
"percent_responses_into_tc_by_coa" -- Percent of responses into Travis County performed by ambulances stationed in the City of Austin.
FROM
"datahub-austintexas-gov/ems-ambulance-responses-by-month-bptg-ndvw:latest"."ems_ambulance_responses_by_month"
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 datahub-austintexas-gov/ems-ambulance-responses-by-month-bptg-ndvw 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 datahub-austintexas-gov/ems-ambulance-responses-by-month-bptg-ndvw: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 datahub-austintexas-gov/ems-ambulance-responses-by-month-bptg-ndvwCheckout 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 datahub-austintexas-gov/ems-ambulance-responses-by-month-bptg-ndvw:latestThis will download all the objects for the latest tag of datahub-austintexas-gov/ems-ambulance-responses-by-month-bptg-ndvw 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 datahub-austintexas-gov/ems-ambulance-responses-by-month-bptg-ndvw: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 datahub-austintexas-gov/ems-ambulance-responses-by-month-bptg-ndvw: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, datahub-austintexas-gov/ems-ambulance-responses-by-month-bptg-ndvw is just another Postgres schema.