rq

This is the home of the tool called rq (record query). It's a tool that's used for performing queries on streams of records in various formats.

The goal is to make ad-hoc exploration of data sets easy without having to use more heavy-weight tools like SQL/MapReduce/custom programs. rq fills a similar niche as tools like awk or sed, but works with structured (record) data instead of text.

It was created with love out of the best parts of Rust, C and Javascript, and is distributed as a dependency-free binary on many operating systems and architectures.

Quick links

• Installation — How to install rq.
• Tutorial — Learn rq from scratch.
• Demo — Showing off misc. rq features.
• Process quick reference — Quickly find a process you need.
• Protobuf — Configure Protobuf specifics.
• Development — Contribute to rq.

Platform support status

OS	Intel x86		ARM
	i686	x86_64	v61	v6 HF2	v73
Linux glibc4
Linux musl5
Mac OS X

¹ For example Raspberry Pi 1 (A and B) running Raspbian.
² For example Raspberry Pi 1 (A and B) running Arch Linux.
³ For example Raspberry Pi 2+.
⁴ Requires a recent version of glibc/libstdc++, so use musl if possible.
⁵ Completely statically linked; only depends on a recent kernel version.

Format support status

Format	Read	Write
Apache Avro	✔️	✖️
CBOR	✔️	✔️
HJSON	✔️	✔️
JSON	✔️	✔️
MessagePack	✔️	✔️
Google Protocol Buffers	✔️	✖️
YAML	✔️	✔️
TOML	✔️	✔️