relational/README.md
Salvo 'LtWorf' Tomaselli cf377eca46 Initial Qt5/Python3 switch
This converts the GUI code to use Qt5 and Python3

The GUI is still somewhat buggy, and it can't open files yet,
but seems to be mostly working, extensive testing will
be needed before this can be released.
2015-02-19 14:00:47 +01:00

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Relational an educational tool to provide a workspace for experimenting with relational algebra, an offshoot of first-order logic.

It provides GUI that can be used for executing relational queries, and also provides a command line interface.

Provides a standalone Python module that can be used for executing relational queries, parsing relational expressions and optimizing them.

Install

Windows installer can be found here: https://code.google.com/p/relational/downloads/list

For Linux, check your distribution's packages, relational is available on Debian and Ubuntu.

Syntax

These are some valid queries

σage > 25 and rank == weight(A)
σ (name.upper().startswith('J') and age>21 )(people)
Q ᐅᐊ π a,b(A) ᐅᐊ B
ρid➡i,name➡n(A) - π a,b(π a,b(A)) ᑎ σage > 25 or rank = weight(A)
π a,b(π a,b(A))
ρid➡i,name➡n(π a,b(A))
A ᐅᐊ B

More documentation can be found here http://ltworf.github.io/relational/

Run from sources

To launch the application, run

./relational_gui.py

If it needs some dependencies: Qt5, Python 3.4 or greater, PyQt5

It can run on osx but this is not supported.