> 3 нояб. 2016 г., в 0:28, Denis Akhiyarov <[email protected]> 
> написал(а):
> 
> How does this compare to LINQ in .NET?

Denis,

  PythonQL is very similar to LINQ actually. The syntax is a little different - 
more Pythonic vs SQL, the clauses can be composed arbitrarily, we have named 
tuples, that make nested queries easier to write and a few minor bells and 
whistles. 
> 
>> On Tuesday, November 1, 2016 at 2:03:44 PM UTC-5, Pavel Velikhov wrote:
>> Hi David!
>> 
>>   I haven’t used blaze, but its looks quite similar to pandas, at least 
>> conceptually. Thanks for
>> the reference!
>> 
>>   The big difference with PythonQL is that we actually extend the syntax of 
>> Python with a few
>> constructs that are typically used in query languages (group by, order by, 
>> window, let clause). 
>> The language extension is quite small and easy to grasp, but its very 
>> powerful: you can use 
>> this language to easily formulate pretty complex queries is a rather simple 
>> way.
>> 
>>   So traditionally - a query language (PythonQL) is good at expressing 
>> complex things easily, but
>> then you need a lot of work from the optimizer and the database to turn it 
>> into an efficient plan. A
>> library like blaze or pandas is more of an “algebra” - its really a plan 
>> specification. It will usually
>> take much longer to memorize all the operators and ways of doing things in 
>> such a library and typically
>> you have to go back to the documentation to do things that differ slightly 
>> from what you typically do.
>> 
>>   Oh yeah, so far our execution engine is pretty simple and not too 
>> efficient, but we plan to fix this
>> in the future and be at least comparable to pandas performance (need to look 
>> at what’ s under the
>> hood in blaze).
>> 
>>  Of course this is my take (although I heard a few similar things from our 
>> early users). It would be
>> interesting to see how other folks compare the two approaches.
>> 
>>   Btw. we have built a library for working with pandas Dataframes, we could 
>> do it for blaze too, I suppose.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> On 1 Nov 2016, at 21:17, David Mertz <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>> How do you see this as different from Blaze 
>>> (http://blaze.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html)?
>>> A
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> On Nov 1, 2016 1:34 AM, "Pavel Velikhov" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> Hi Folks,
>>>> 
>>>>   We have released PythonQL, a query language extension to Python (we have 
>>>> extended Python’s comprehensions with a full-fledged query language,
>>>> drawing from the useful features of SQL, XQuery and JSONiq). Take a look 
>>>> at the project here: http://www.pythonql.org and lets us know what you 
>>>> think!
>>>> 
>>>>   The way PythonQL currently works is you mark PythonQL files with a 
>>>> special encoding and the system runs a preprocessor for all such files. We 
>>>> have
>>>> an interactive interpreter and Jupyter support planned.
>>>> 
>>>> Best regards!
>>>> PythonQL team
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