是否有(大致)SQL或类似xquery的语言来查询JSON?

我正在考虑非常小的数据集,很好地映射到JSON,它将很容易回答查询,如“X的所有值是什么,Y > 3”或做通常的SUM / COUNT类型操作。

作为一个完全虚构的例子,是这样的:

[{"x": 2, "y": 0}}, {"x": 3, "y": 1}, {"x": 4, "y": 1}]

SUM(X) WHERE Y > 0     (would equate to 7)
LIST(X) WHERE Y > 0    (would equate to [3,4])

我认为这将在客户端和服务器端工作,结果将被转换为适当的特定于语言的数据结构(或者可能保留为JSON)

快速搜索一下谷歌,就会发现人们已经考虑过它并实现了一些东西(JAQL),但它似乎还没有一个标准的用法或库集出现。虽然单独实现每个功能都是相当琐碎的,但如果有人已经做对了,我就不想重新发明轮子。

有什么建议吗?

Edit: This may indeed be a bad idea or JSON may be too generic a format for what I'm thinking.. The reason for wanting a query language instead of just doing the summing/etc functions directly as needed is that I hope to build the queries dynamically based on user-input. Kinda like the argument that "we don't need SQL, we can just write the functions we need". Eventually that either gets out of hand or you end up writing your own version of SQL as you push it further and further. (Okay, I know that is a bit of a silly argument, but you get the idea..)


当前回答

如果你使用的是。net,那么Json。NET支持JSON之上的LINQ查询。这篇文章有一些例子。它支持过滤、映射、分组等。

其他回答

我赞同只使用自己的javascript,但对于更复杂的东西,您可以查看dojo数据。还没有使用过,但看起来它大致提供了您正在寻找的那种查询接口。

下面是一些简单的javascript库,也可以做到这一点:

Dollar Q is a nice lightweight library. It has a familiar feel to the chaining syntax made popular by jQuery and is only 373 SLOC. SpahQL is a fully featured query language with a syntax similar to XPath (Homepage, Github jFunk is an in progress query language, with a syntax similar to CSS/jQuery selectors. It looked promising, but hasn't had any development beyond its in initial commit. (added 2014): the jq command line tool has a neat syntax, but unfortunately it is a c library. Example usage: < package.json jq '.dependencies | to_entries | .[] | select(.value | startswith("git")) | .key'

PythonQL提供了一种嵌入式语法,IMHO是对SQL的改进,主要是因为group、window、where、let等可以自由混合。

$ cat x.py
#coding: pythonql
data = [{"x": 2, "y": 0}, {"x": 3, "y": 1}, {"x": 4, "y": 1}]
q = [x match {'x': as x, 'y': as y} in data where y > 0]
print(sum(q))
print(list(q))

q = [x match {'x': as x, 'y': as y} as d in data where d['y'] > 0]
print(sum(q))

这段代码显示了您的问题的两个不同答案,这取决于您需要处理整个结构或仅处理值。执行会给你预期的结果。

$ python x.py
7
[3, 4]
7

JMESPath工作起来非常简单和良好:http://jmespath.org/。 它有一个完整的规范和多种语言的库。亚马逊在AWS命令行界面中使用它,所以它必须非常稳定。

语法的例子:

// Select a single item
people[1].firstName

// Select a slice of an array
people[0:5]

// Select all the first names
people[*].firstName

// Select all first names based on search term
people[?state=='VA'].firstName

// Count how many people are over 35
length(people[?age>`35`])

// Select only the name and age of people over 35
people[?age>`35`].{name: name, age: age}

// Join expressions together to sort and join elements into a string
people[?state == 'WA'].name | sort(@) | join(', ', @)

在文档中还有更多的实例可以使用。

ObjectPath是用于复杂或结构未知的JSON文档的简单而轻量级的查询语言。它类似于XPath或JSONPath,但由于嵌入了算术计算、比较机制和内置函数,它的功能要强大得多。

Python版本已经成熟,已用于生产环境。JS仍处于测试阶段。

在不久的将来,我们可能会提供一个完整的Javascript版本。我们还想进一步开发它,以便它可以作为Mongo查询的一个更简单的替代品。