It’s an RFI, not an RFP. They are basically looking to build a list of vendors who might be interested in bidding an RFP or competing in a domain-relevant contest.
I originally wrote this because sometimes a CLI or TUI is just super convenient. I used to use the DuckDB and Sqlite CLIs a lot, but was frustrated by their limitations, especially for doing data analysis work (my background).
b. any particular reason why you chose to implement it the way you did (e.g. I see you use Python + Textual as opposed to something like https://charm.sh/libs/)
c. any major functionality you feel it's missing?
d. any limitations (e.g. doesn't work with Oracle?)
A. I was using the DuckDB CLI and kept hitting walls on analyses. Had a shower thought of “I wonder if anyone has used Textual for a DuckDB client” and decided to build one myself.
B. This uses Textual, a python framework for TUIs. Python is my language of choice.
C. Hoping for more db adapters soon. Canceling queries is a missing piece I have yet to figure out
E. Maybe if you don’t use Python apps and do have another sql client you really like.
Fair enough (author here). I just launched support for any databases other than DuckDb and published a guide to create adapters for new dbs. I’m expecting the community to step up here, since I’d rather spend my time adding features to Harlequin. ODBC should be coming shortly. The hard part is honestly just having access to a DB server for testing.
The Harlequin v1.0 release made it to the Front Page -- I'm back to announce v1.5, which adds support for other databases (and addresses the biggest feedback I got on HN).
