An easily customizable SQL parser and transpiler
Project description
SQLGlot
SQLGlot is a no dependency Python SQL parser, transpiler, and optimizer. It can be used to format SQL or translate between different dialects like DuckDB, Presto, Spark, Snowflake, and BigQuery. It aims to read a wide variety of SQL inputs and output syntactically correct SQL in the targeted dialects.
It is a very comprehensive generic SQL parser with a robust test suite. It is also quite performant while being written purely in Python.
You can easily customize the parser, analyze queries, traverse expression trees, and programmatically build SQL.
Syntax errors are highlighted and dialect incompatibilities can warn or raise depending on configurations.
Contributions are very welcome in SQLGlot; read the contribution guide to get started!
Table of Contents
Install
From PyPI:
pip3 install sqlglot
Or with a local checkout:
pip3 install -e .
Requirements for development (optional):
pip3 install -r dev-requirements.txt
Documentation
SQLGlot's uses pdocs to serve its API documentation:
pdoc sqlglot --docformat google
Run Tests and Lint
# set `SKIP_INTEGRATION=1` to skip integration tests
./run_checks.sh
Examples
Formatting and Transpiling
Easily translate from one dialect to another. For example, date/time functions vary from dialects and can be hard to deal with:
import sqlglot
sqlglot.transpile("SELECT EPOCH_MS(1618088028295)", read="duckdb", write="hive")[0]
'SELECT FROM_UNIXTIME(1618088028295 / 1000)'
SQLGlot can even translate custom time formats:
import sqlglot
sqlglot.transpile("SELECT STRFTIME(x, '%y-%-m-%S')", read="duckdb", write="hive")[0]
"SELECT DATE_FORMAT(x, 'yy-M-ss')"
As another example, let's suppose that we want to read in a SQL query that contains a CTE and a cast to REAL, and then transpile it to Spark, which uses backticks as identifiers and FLOAT instead of REAL:
import sqlglot
sql = """WITH baz AS (SELECT a, c FROM foo WHERE a = 1) SELECT f.a, b.b, baz.c, CAST("b"."a" AS REAL) d FROM foo f JOIN bar b ON f.a = b.a LEFT JOIN baz ON f.a = baz.a"""
print(sqlglot.transpile(sql, write="spark", identify=True, pretty=True)[0])
WITH `baz` AS (
SELECT
`a`,
`c`
FROM `foo`
WHERE
`a` = 1
)
SELECT
`f`.`a`,
`b`.`b`,
`baz`.`c`,
CAST(`b`.`a` AS FLOAT) AS `d`
FROM `foo` AS `f`
JOIN `bar` AS `b`
ON `f`.`a` = `b`.`a`
LEFT JOIN `baz`
ON `f`.`a` = `baz`.`a`
Metadata
You can explore SQL with expression helpers to do things like find columns and tables:
from sqlglot import parse_one, exp
# print all column references (a and b)
for column in parse_one("SELECT a, b + 1 AS c FROM d").find_all(exp.Column):
print(column.alias_or_name)
# find all projections in select statements (a and c)
for select in parse_one("SELECT a, b + 1 AS c FROM d").find_all(exp.Select):
for projection in select.expressions:
print(projection.alias_or_name)
# find all tables (x, y, z)
for table in parse_one("SELECT * FROM x JOIN y JOIN z").find_all(exp.Table):
print(table.name)
Parser Errors
A syntax error will result in a parser error:
import sqlglot
sqlglot.transpile("SELECT foo( FROM bar")
sqlglot.errors.ParseError: Expecting ). Line 1, Col: 13.
select foo( FROM bar
~~~~
Unsupported Errors
Presto APPROX_DISTINCT supports the accuracy argument which is not supported in Hive:
import sqlglot
sqlglot.transpile("SELECT APPROX_DISTINCT(a, 0.1) FROM foo", read="presto", write="hive")
APPROX_COUNT_DISTINCT does not support accuracy
'SELECT APPROX_COUNT_DISTINCT(a) FROM foo'
Build and Modify SQL
SQLGlot supports incrementally building sql expressions:
from sqlglot import select, condition
where = condition("x=1").and_("y=1")
select("*").from_("y").where(where).sql()
'SELECT * FROM y WHERE x = 1 AND y = 1'
You can also modify a parsed tree:
from sqlglot import parse_one
parse_one("SELECT x FROM y").from_("z").sql()
'SELECT x FROM y, z'
There is also a way to recursively transform the parsed tree by applying a mapping function to each tree node:
from sqlglot import exp, parse_one
expression_tree = parse_one("SELECT a FROM x")
def transformer(node):
if isinstance(node, exp.Column) and node.name == "a":
return parse_one("FUN(a)")
return node
transformed_tree = expression_tree.transform(transformer)
transformed_tree.sql()
'SELECT FUN(a) FROM x'
SQL Optimizer
SQLGlot can rewrite queries into an "optimized" form. It performs a variety of techniques to create a new canonical AST. This AST can be used to standardize queries or provide the foundations for implementing an actual engine. For example:
import sqlglot
from sqlglot.optimizer import optimize
print(
optimize(
sqlglot.parse_one("""
SELECT A OR (B OR (C AND D))
FROM x
WHERE Z = date '2021-01-01' + INTERVAL '1' month OR 1 = 0
"""),
schema={"x": {"A": "INT", "B": "INT", "C": "INT", "D": "INT", "Z": "STRING"}}
).sql(pretty=True)
)
SELECT
(
"x"."A" OR "x"."B" OR "x"."C"
) AND (
"x"."A" OR "x"."B" OR "x"."D"
) AS "_col_0"
FROM "x" AS "x"
WHERE
"x"."Z" = CAST('2021-02-01' AS DATE)
SQL Annotations
SQLGlot supports annotations in the sql expression. This is an experimental feature that is not part of any of the SQL standards but it can be useful when needing to annotate what a selected field is supposed to be. Below is an example:
SELECT
user # primary_key,
country
FROM users
AST Introspection
You can see the AST version of the sql by calling repr:
from sqlglot import parse_one
print(repr(parse_one("SELECT a + 1 AS z")))
(SELECT expressions:
(ALIAS this:
(ADD this:
(COLUMN this:
(IDENTIFIER this: a, quoted: False)), expression:
(LITERAL this: 1, is_string: False)), alias:
(IDENTIFIER this: z, quoted: False)))
AST Diff
SQLGlot can calculate the difference between two expressions and output changes in a form of a sequence of actions needed to transform a source expression into a target one:
from sqlglot import diff, parse_one
diff(parse_one("SELECT a + b, c, d"), parse_one("SELECT c, a - b, d"))
[
Remove(expression=(ADD this:
(COLUMN this:
(IDENTIFIER this: a, quoted: False)), expression:
(COLUMN this:
(IDENTIFIER this: b, quoted: False)))),
Insert(expression=(SUB this:
(COLUMN this:
(IDENTIFIER this: a, quoted: False)), expression:
(COLUMN this:
(IDENTIFIER this: b, quoted: False)))),
Move(expression=(COLUMN this:
(IDENTIFIER this: c, quoted: False))),
Keep(source=(IDENTIFIER this: b, quoted: False), target=(IDENTIFIER this: b, quoted: False)),
...
]
Custom Dialects
Dialects can be added by subclassing Dialect:
from sqlglot import exp
from sqlglot.dialects.dialect import Dialect
from sqlglot.generator import Generator
from sqlglot.tokens import Tokenizer, TokenType
class Custom(Dialect):
class Tokenizer(Tokenizer):
QUOTES = ["'", '"']
IDENTIFIERS = ["`"]
KEYWORDS = {
**Tokenizer.KEYWORDS,
"INT64": TokenType.BIGINT,
"FLOAT64": TokenType.DOUBLE,
}
class Generator(Generator):
TRANSFORMS = {exp.Array: lambda self, e: f"[{self.expressions(e)}]"}
TYPE_MAPPING = {
exp.DataType.Type.TINYINT: "INT64",
exp.DataType.Type.SMALLINT: "INT64",
exp.DataType.Type.INT: "INT64",
exp.DataType.Type.BIGINT: "INT64",
exp.DataType.Type.DECIMAL: "NUMERIC",
exp.DataType.Type.FLOAT: "FLOAT64",
exp.DataType.Type.DOUBLE: "FLOAT64",
exp.DataType.Type.BOOLEAN: "BOOL",
exp.DataType.Type.TEXT: "STRING",
}
print(Dialect["custom"])
<class '__main__.Custom'>
Benchmarks
Benchmarks run on Python 3.10.5 in seconds.
| Query | sqlglot | sqltree | sqlparse | moz_sql_parser | sqloxide |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| tpch | 0.01178 (1.0) | 0.01173 (0.995) | 0.04676 (3.966) | 0.06800 (5.768) | 0.00094 (0.080) |
| short | 0.00084 (1.0) | 0.00079 (0.948) | 0.00296 (3.524) | 0.00443 (5.266) | 0.00006 (0.072) |
| long | 0.01102 (1.0) | 0.01044 (0.947) | 0.04349 (3.945) | 0.05998 (5.440) | 0.00084 (0.077) |
| crazy | 0.03751 (1.0) | 0.03471 (0.925) | 11.0796 (295.3) | 1.03355 (27.55) | 0.00529 (0.141) |
Optional Dependencies
SQLGlot uses dateutil to simplify literal timedelta expressions. The optimizer will not simplify expressions like the following if the module cannot be found:
x + interval '1' month
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