- You don't need SQL to transform and manipulate data in Pretzel - we have visual blocks where you can construct a transform chain (though we do support manual SQL blocks now!)
- We have better CSV parsing (I spent a fair bit of time on this!). See one of our test case CSVs here that breaks (https://imgur.com/a/O8XMfET)
- We allow plotting!
- We support PRQL - which IMO is a better way to build data pipelines (but we also support SQL)
- We have AI Blocks! You can use your API keys (or our server) to get SQL from text which you can edit
- We're currently adding support for Python via Pyodide (pyodide.org) so you can do complex data transforms, even train simple ML models right inside the browser!
- Lastly, we'll be adding a ton more features to Pretzel over the coming months (many of them have been asked for in this thread actually!)
Support for multiple files is crucial - we'll be adding that soon. Right now, we're rethinking our whole task execution architecture so any major features will have to wait until then.
We're different in a couple of ways:
- You don't need SQL to transform and manipulate data in Pretzel - we have visual blocks where you can construct a transform chain (though we do support manual SQL blocks now!)
- We have better CSV parsing (I spent a fair bit of time on this!). See one of our test case CSVs here that breaks (https://imgur.com/a/O8XMfET)
- We allow plotting!
- We support PRQL - which IMO is a better way to build data pipelines (but we also support SQL)
- We have AI Blocks! You can use your API keys (or our server) to get SQL from text which you can edit
- We're currently adding support for Python via Pyodide (pyodide.org) so you can do complex data transforms, even train simple ML models right inside the browser!
- Lastly, we'll be adding a ton more features to Pretzel over the coming months (many of them have been asked for in this thread actually!)
Support for multiple files is crucial - we'll be adding that soon. Right now, we're rethinking our whole task execution architecture so any major features will have to wait until then.