This is cool. Not really the same but reminds me a bit of osquery?

https://osquery.io/

Wonder what kind of integration could happen there...

On Tue, Jul 25, 2017 at 8:32 AM, Josh Elser <[email protected]> wrote:

> I (think?) I have some free time, so let me play around with this today :)
>
>
> On 7/25/17 3:13 AM, Julian Hyde wrote:
>
>> I had an idea last week and implemented it quickly over the weekend. You
>> know how bash hackers write pipelines of operations like grep, sort, uniq,
>> sed? Those are basically relational operations, but the pipelines are
>> difficult to write because you’re dealing with space-separated strings. So,
>> my idea was to allow people to write the same pipelines using SQL. Which
>> meant making SQL easily available from the command line, and making the
>> data sources of those operations (shell commands such as du, ps, git log)
>> available as tables.
>>
>> I call this the OS adapter, and the script that launches SQL from the
>> command line is sqlsh. To find the 5 most prolific committers you’d type
>>
>> $ git log | grep Author: | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr | head -5
>>
>> and now you can instead type
>>
>> $ ./sqlsh select author, count\(\*\) from git_commits group by 1 order by
>> 2 desc limit 5
>>
>> and Calcite reads from the same data source and executes the query using
>> its operators.
>>
>> It’s ready to commit. Can someone please review
>> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CALCITE-1896 <
>> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CALCITE-1896>?
>>
>> It would be great to get contributions to this. Adding new data sources
>> (/etc/passwd, netstat, the file system, apt, the maven repo) should be
>> fairly straightforward.
>>
>> Julian
>>
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