About GlareDB
GlareDB is a light and fast SQL database aimed at analytics. The project describes it as a lightweight, ergonomic database for quickly running analytics across a variety of sources, and it is written in Rust. It is meant for developers and analysts who want to query data with SQL without setting up a heavy data warehouse.
Installation is a single command from the project's site, and documentation, a blog and a changelog are available there. GlareDB uses calendar versioning in a year, month and patch format, so version 25.5.0 was the first release in May 2025. The code is licensed under MIT, and the company behind it is GlareDB, Inc. The README itself is brief, so see the documentation for supported data sources and query features.
Key features
- SQL database focused on analytics
- Queries across a variety of data sources
- Written in Rust
- Single-command installation
- Calendar-versioned releases
Good fit for
- →Running analytical SQL queries on local data
- →Querying data from several sources with one tool
- Built with
- Rust
- Tags
- database
- sql
- analytics
- rust
- olap
- data
- query-engine
- lightweight
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