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 odf_fire_occurrence_data_20002022 table in this repository, by referencing it like:
"oregon-gov/odf-fire-occurrence-data-20002022-fbwv-q84y:latest"."odf_fire_occurrence_data_20002022"or in a full query, like:
SELECT
":id", -- Socrata column ID
"distfirenumber", -- Original Short Fire Number
"unitcode", -- ODF Administrative Fire Protection Unit Code
"districtcode", -- ODF Administrative Fire Protection District Code
"modifieddate", -- Record Modified Date and Time
"creationdate", -- Record Creation Date and Time
"control_datetime", -- Control Date and Time
"discover_datetime", -- Discover Date and Time
"reportdatetime", -- Report Date and Time
"ign_datetime", -- Ignition Date and Time
"reguserestriction", -- Regulated Use Restriction Level in Effect
"county", -- County
"landmarklocation", -- Landmark Location
"subdiv", -- Public Land Survey - Section Subdivision
"sec", -- Public Land Survey - Section
"rng", -- Public Land Survey - Range
"twn", -- Public Land Survey - Township
"fo_landowntype", -- Fire Origin Land Ownership Type
"latlongdd", -- Lat-Long DD Combo for data.oregon.gov
"long_dd", -- Longitude in Decimal Degrees
"lat_dd", -- Latitude in Decimal Degrees
"specificcause", -- Specific Cause
"causeby", -- Cause Demographic (who)
"protected_acres", -- ODF Protected Acres burned
"esttotalacres", -- Total Acres - Estimated (Please verify)
"size_class", -- Fire Size Class
"firename", -- Fire Name
"fullfirenumber", -- Full fire number FireYear-DistrictUnitFireNumber-FiscalYear
"unitname", -- ODF Administrative Fire Protection Unit
"serial", -- Unique ID in Agency Database
"industrial_restriction", -- Industrial Restriction Level in Effect
"regusezone", -- Regulated Use Zone
"generalcause", -- General Cause
"districtname", -- ODF Administrative Fire Protection District
"area", -- ODF Administrative Fire Protection Area
"fireyear", -- Fire Year
":@computed_region_i25a_xk5b", -- This column was automatically created in order to record in what polygon from the dataset 'Counties' (i25a-xk5b) the point in column 'latlongdd' is located. This enables the creation of region maps (choropleths) in the visualization canvas and data lens.
":@computed_region_ciix_jbrk", -- This column was automatically created in order to record in what polygon from the dataset '2010 Senate Districts' (ciix-jbrk) the point in column 'latlongdd' is located. This enables the creation of region maps (choropleths) in the visualization canvas and data lens.
":@computed_region_7u8j_y3re", -- This column was automatically created in order to record in what polygon from the dataset '2010 House Districts' (7u8j-y3re) the point in column 'latlongdd' is located. This enables the creation of region maps (choropleths) in the visualization canvas and data lens.
"firecategory", -- STAT fires are those where ODF is the primary fire protecting agency
"cause_comments", -- Cause Comments
"humanorlightning" -- Main Cause (Human or Lightning)
FROM
"oregon-gov/odf-fire-occurrence-data-20002022-fbwv-q84y:latest"."odf_fire_occurrence_data_20002022"
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 oregon-gov/odf-fire-occurrence-data-20002022-fbwv-q84y 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 oregon-gov/odf-fire-occurrence-data-20002022-fbwv-q84y: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 oregon-gov/odf-fire-occurrence-data-20002022-fbwv-q84yCheckout 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 oregon-gov/odf-fire-occurrence-data-20002022-fbwv-q84y:latestThis will download all the objects for the latest tag of oregon-gov/odf-fire-occurrence-data-20002022-fbwv-q84y 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 oregon-gov/odf-fire-occurrence-data-20002022-fbwv-q84y: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 oregon-gov/odf-fire-occurrence-data-20002022-fbwv-q84y: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, oregon-gov/odf-fire-occurrence-data-20002022-fbwv-q84y is just another Postgres schema.