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Query Abstraction Layer

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Query Abstraction Layer
Developer(s)Nicklas Börjesson
Initial releaseSeptember 2013 (2013-09)[1]
Stable release
0.4.0[2] / October 31, 2014 (2014-10-31)
Written inPython
Operating systemCross-platform
TypePython libraries
LicenseBSD license
Websitewww.optimalbpm.se/wiki/index.php/QAL

QAL is an open-source development project that aims to create a collection of libraries for mixing, moving, merging, substituting and transforming data;[3] also in some cases, such as MongoDB, schemas.

Description

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Sources and destinations include different database backends, file formats like .csv, XML and spreadsheets. Even untidy HTML web pages can be used as both a source and destination.

For SQL/RDBMS backends, it has a database abstraction layer that supports basic connectivity to Postgres, MySQL / MariaDB, IBM Db2, Oracle and MS SQL Server.[4] It uses XML formats (the SQL schema is self-generated) for representation of queries, transformation and merging, making it all processable by scripts.

With regards to SQL, QAL uses a subset of SQL features[5] and data types,[6] which while obviously not complete however is sufficient for most usages. It is however easy to instead use backend-specific SQL when the queries do not have to be backend-agnostic.

It is currently distributed as a Python Library (.egg)[7] and a Debian package file (.deb).[8]

It is related to the Optimal BPM (Business Process Management) project.[9] The Optimal BPM SourceForge project used to be DAL/QAL.[1]

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 This article incorporates http://sourceforge.net/projects/qal/ text available under the CC0 license.

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