Hummm, what you mean by data science?

Like running analysis in a Jupiter notebook?

Indeed I am not sure this case is a good fit...

Yes, that's what I meant. And possibly for ML preprocessing.

Just out of curiosity, who do you imagine your users will be?

The problem with data science is that usually you have relatively big datasets, you care more about throughput than latency and you work in secure an environment where you can definitely have access to the database credentials.

Streaming over the network the result of a big select is not ideal, moreover I believe that data scientist prefer to work with common technologies. I mean that there are already adapter for SQLite or PG or MySQL, while for RediSQL it won't be as straightforward.

I am thinking to developers for the JAM stack would be interested to this sort of API. Or people that want a database without having to think too much about it.

Well, many choose to do their data-science over aws and similar, so I'm not sure there's a big different. I see you point about throughput and network load, but part of DS is data analysis, where the work is mostly exploratory: finding connections in existing data, and working heavily with aggregated data and previews, rather than just using it as a pipeline for other systems.

I think for most JAMs the network is a bigger hindrance than the query time. So, I hope you know what you're doing.

Anyway, cool project. I'll make sure to check back in a while and see where it went. I'm working on an "adapter" (so-to-speak) that queries SQL, so maybe I'll add yours too when the time is right.

The advantages of using an API like these on JAM it would be that very sophisticated application could be written completely client side. Which is quite interesting IMHO.

What is your project?

My project is an interpreted query language that compiles to SQL (with support for several backends).

It is more capable than ORMs, and provides a layer of abstraction that SQL direly needs but lacks, as well as a shorter syntax, that is in-line with other popular languages.

Here is a very early version of it: https://github.com/erezsh/preql

I've kept working on it, but privately, and I'm trying to make it into a product.

I will probably release it as open-source when it's ready. I still need to figure out the right license, financial model, etc.