tabler

tabler

tabler writes input data into tables in a SQLite or PostgreSQL DB. It's the "load" in Extract-Transform-Load, and a fairly minimal one at that.

Caveats:

• tabler is by no means ready for production use! It lacks tests, Travis integration, and has not yet been released in any way.

Features:

• reads from stdin or TCP socket
• parses JSON or Heka protobuf messages (including Heka streaming format)

Building tabler

tabler is built using gb. If you don't have gb installed, first do:

go get github.com/constabulary/gb/...

Then, cd into a checkout of the tabler repo and do:

gb build

That's it.

Using tabler

tabler works in two steps:

1. Create a tables.json describing your tables. The easiest way to do this is to feed a representative sample of your data into tabler -generate-tables.

2. Send data into tabler TABLES_JSON DSN, where TABLES_JSON is the path to your tables.json file, and DSN is a SQLite or PostgreSQL DSN.

tabler does have unfair assumptions about your data. Specifically, if it's JSON, it expects each object to have a "type" property, which specifies which table that data should be inserted into. Making it so that any property name could be used would be a small patch, though.