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 yourmoney_combined_revenue table in this repository, by referencing it like:
"nj-gov/yourmoney-combined-revenue-akr9-8jzi:latest"."yourmoney_combined_revenue"or in a full query, like:
SELECT
":id", -- Socrata column ID
"afy_mth_04_oct_amt", -- The revenue amount pertaining to the fourth calendar month (October) of the accounting fiscal year.
"afy_mth_02_aug_amt", -- The revenue amount pertaining to the second calendar month (August) of the accounting fiscal year.
"ytd_amt", -- Cumulative revenue amount collected since the beginning of the fiscal year
"afy_mth_13_adjust_amt", -- The revenue amount pertaining to the adjustment/closing period of the accounting fiscal year.
"afy_mth_06_dec_amt", -- The revenue amount pertaining to the sixth calendar month (December) of the accounting fiscal year.
"afy_mth_03_sept_amt", -- The revenue amount pertaining to the third calendar month (September) of the accounting fiscal year.
"afy_mth_01_july_amt", -- The revenue amount pertaining to the first calendar month (July) of the accounting fiscal year.
"afy_mth_12_june_amt", -- The revenue amount pertaining to the final calendar month (June) of the accounting fiscal year.
"afy_mth_10_apr_amt", -- The revenue amount pertaining to the tenth calendar month (April) of the accounting fiscal year.
"afy_mth_09_mar_amt", -- The revenue amount pertaining to the ninth calendar month (March) of the accounting fiscal year.
"afy_mth_08_feb_amt", -- The revenue amount pertaining to the eighth calendar month (February) of the accounting fiscal year.
"afy_mth_07_jan_amt", -- The revenue amount pertaining to the seventh calendar month (January) of the accounting fiscal year.
"revenue_category_desc", -- The budget category of revenue for an authority.
"agency_authority_name", -- An organizational unit or department within the Executive, Judiciary, and Legislative branches of government, includes authorities and commissions. Authorities are an independent authority or commission that is neither a cabinet department nor an agency in but not of a cabinet department.
"month_ending_date", -- The last day of the month of data represented in this dataset.
"afy_mth_11_may_amt", -- The revenue amount pertaining to the eleventh calendar month (May) of the accounting fiscal year.
"afy_mth_05_nov_amt", -- The revenue amount pertaining to the fifth calendar month (November) of the accounting fiscal year.
"accounting_fiscal_year" -- Four digit accounting fiscal year spanning 12 months.
FROM
"nj-gov/yourmoney-combined-revenue-akr9-8jzi:latest"."yourmoney_combined_revenue"
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 nj-gov/yourmoney-combined-revenue-akr9-8jzi 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 nj-gov/yourmoney-combined-revenue-akr9-8jzi: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 nj-gov/yourmoney-combined-revenue-akr9-8jziCheckout 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 nj-gov/yourmoney-combined-revenue-akr9-8jzi:latestThis will download all the objects for the latest tag of nj-gov/yourmoney-combined-revenue-akr9-8jzi 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 nj-gov/yourmoney-combined-revenue-akr9-8jzi: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 nj-gov/yourmoney-combined-revenue-akr9-8jzi: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, nj-gov/yourmoney-combined-revenue-akr9-8jzi is just another Postgres schema.