q - Text as a Database
On 25 Feb, 2014 By Michael.Walker 0 Comments
q - Text as a Database is a tool that handles text files as databases allowing you to query stuff in
files,
Have you ever stared at a text file on the screen, hoping it would have been a database so you could ask anything you want about it? I had that feeling many times, and I've finally understood that it's not the databasethat I want. It's the language - SQL.
SQL is a declarative language for data, and as such it allows me to define what I want without caring about how exactly it's done. This is the reason SQL is so powerful, because it treats data as data and not as bits and bytes (and chars).
The goal of this tool is to provide a bridge between the world of text files and of SQL.