# GlareDB/glaredb

GlareDB: A light and fast SQL database for analytics

Repository: https://github.com/GlareDB/glaredb
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/glaredb
Homepage: https://glaredb.com
Language: Rust
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: database, sql, analytics, rust
Last push: 2025-11-14T14:12:39+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 57/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 52, release rhythm 40, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 1560, "days_push": 292, "days_rel": 440, "gap_med": 1.0, "n_releases_24m": 35}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1021, forks 54 (observed 2026-08-28T04:03:15.923441+00:00)

## What it is
GlareDB is a lightweight, fast SQL database engine built in Rust for running analytics queries directly against files and object storage like Parquet, CSV, S3, GCS, and Iceberg tables. It ships as an installable CLI, embeddable Rust crates, and a Python client.

## Use cases
- query parquet files with sql
- run analytics on csv files locally
- query data in s3 buckets with sql
- embed a sql analytics engine in a rust application
- analyze iceberg tables without a warehouse
- quick ad-hoc sql over cloud object storage

## When to choose
- you need fast ad-hoc SQL analytics over files in S3, GCS, or local disk
- you want a lightweight embedded OLAP engine without running a server cluster
- you query Parquet, CSV, or Iceberg data directly
- you want to embed an analytics database inside a Rust program

## When to avoid
- you need a full transactional OLTP database with concurrent writes
- you require long-running multi-user production data warehousing with mature ecosystem support
- you depend on a stable, documented embedding API today

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: active
- function: database, search-engine, cli, etl
- domain: databases, analytics, developer-tools
- platform: rust, windows, cli, python
- tags: sql-analytics, parquet, iceberg, object-storage, embedded-database, olap, data-engineering, linux, macos

## Member repositories
- GlareDB/glaredb (main) score 57

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:15.923441+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T07:08:47.274890+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/GlareDB/glaredb (fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:15.923441+00:00, sha 46608afc0bd3)
  - homepage: https://glaredb.com (fetched 2026-08-29T13:09:01.217356+00:00, sha a74c4fbe0031)
  - site_page: https://glaredb.com/docs (fetched 2026-08-29T13:09:01.220044+00:00, sha ec96ffd4a8f9)
  - site_page: https://glaredb.com/changelog (fetched 2026-08-29T13:09:01.222156+00:00, sha 85570b4f8986)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.