Polyglot

August 18, 2026 · View on GitHub

Rust/Wasm-powered SQL transpiler for more than 30 SQL dialects, inspired by sqlglot.

Polyglot parses, generates, transpiles, and formats SQL across more than 30 SQL dialects. It ships as:

a Rust crate (polyglot-sql)
a TypeScript/WASM SDK (@polyglot-sql/sdk)
a Python package (polyglot-sql)
a Go SDK (github.com/tobilg/polyglot/packages/go) backed by the native FFI library

There's also a playground where you can try it out in the browser, as well as Rust API Docs, TypeScript API Docs, and Python API Docs.

Release notes are tracked in CHANGELOG.md.

Features

Transpile SQL between any pair of more than 30 SQL dialects
Parse SQL into a fully-typed AST
Generate SQL back from AST nodes
Format / pretty-print SQL
Fluent builder API for constructing queries programmatically
Validation with syntax, semantic, and schema-aware checks
Column lineage and OpenLineage-compatible payload generation
Compact query analysis facts for projections, relations, CTEs, and set operations
AST visitor utilities for walking, transforming, and analyzing queries
Stack-safety hardening on native targets via default-on stacker
C FFI shared/static library for multi-language bindings (polyglot-sql-ffi)
Python bindings powered by PyO3 (polyglot-sql on PyPI)

Supported Dialects


Athena	BigQuery	ClickHouse	CockroachDB	Databricks
Doris	Dremio	Drill	Druid	DuckDB
Dune	Exasol	Fabric	Hive	Materialize
MySQL	Oracle	PostgreSQL	Presto	Redshift
RisingWave	SingleStore	Snowflake	Solr	Spark
SQLite	StarRocks	Tableau	Teradata	TiDB
Trino	TSQL	DataFusion	Generic SQL

Quick Start

Rust

use polyglot_sql::{transpile, DialectType};

// Transpile MySQL to PostgreSQL
let result = transpile(
    "SELECT IFNULL(a, b) FROM t",
    DialectType::MySQL,
    DialectType::Postgres,
).unwrap();
assert_eq!(result[0], "SELECT COALESCE(a, b) FROM t");

use polyglot_sql::builder::*;

// Fluent query builder
let query = select(["id", "name"])
    .from("users")
    .where_(col("age").gt(lit(18)))
    .order_by(["name"])
    .limit(10)
    .build();

See the full Rust crate README for more examples.

TypeScript

npm install @polyglot-sql/sdk

import { transpile, Dialect } from '@polyglot-sql/sdk';

// Transpile MySQL to PostgreSQL
const result = transpile(
  'SELECT IFNULL(a, b) FROM t',
  Dialect.MySQL,
  Dialect.PostgreSQL,
);
console.log(result.sql[0]); // SELECT COALESCE(a, b) FROM t

import { select, col, lit } from '@polyglot-sql/sdk';

// Fluent query builder
const sql = select('id', 'name')
  .from('users')
  .where(col('age').gt(lit(18)))
  .orderBy(col('name').asc())
  .limit(10)
  .toSql('postgresql');

See the full TypeScript SDK README for more examples.

Go

go get github.com/tobilg/polyglot/packages/go

The Go module contains the PureGo wrapper only. Runtime API calls require a separate matching polyglot-sql-ffi shared library (.so, .dylib, or .dll) from the same Polyglot release or a local FFI build:

cargo build -p polyglot-sql-ffi --profile ffi_release
export POLYGLOT_SQL_FFI_PATH="$PWD/target/ffi_release/libpolyglot_sql_ffi.so"

import (
    "fmt"

    polyglot "github.com/tobilg/polyglot/packages/go"
)

client, err := polyglot.OpenDefault()
if err != nil {
    panic(err)
}
defer client.Close()

result, err := client.Transpile(
    "SELECT IFNULL(a, b) FROM t",
    "mysql",
    "postgres",
)
if err != nil {
    panic(err)
}
fmt.Println(result[0]) // SELECT COALESCE(a, b) FROM t

The Go SDK uses PureGo over polyglot-sql-ffi; it does not download native libraries or bundle release artifacts in the Go module. Build/download the FFI shared library and set POLYGLOT_SQL_FFI_PATH or pass its path to polyglot.Open. See the full Go SDK README.

Lineage and OpenLineage Output

Polyglot can trace column lineage through SQL queries and can generate OpenLineage-compatible JSON payloads from that analysis. The OpenLineage support currently produces columnLineage dataset facets, optional schema facets, and JobEvent / RunEvent payloads for supported query shapes such as SELECT, set-operation queries, INSERT ... SELECT, and CREATE TABLE AS SELECT.

Lineage can be selected by output name or by zero-based output ordinal. Ordered output metadata preserves unnamed projections and unresolved wildcards, so callers can decide whether a positional lookup is complete before tracing it. Immediate set-operation branch roots include the operator, original zero-based branch ordinal, and ALL flag. For OpenLineage, both UNION branches are direct value dependencies; the right branch of EXCEPT and INTERSECT is an indirect FILTER dependency.

OpenLineage transport and client emission are intentionally out of scope: Polyglot builds payloads for callers to inspect, persist, or send through their own infrastructure.

TypeScript SDK examples: packages/sdk/README.md
Python examples: crates/polyglot-sql-python/README.md
Go examples: packages/go/README.md

Compact Query Analysis

For applications that need summary facts instead of a full AST or full lineage graph, analyze_query / analyzeQuery returns a compact payload with output projections, direct visible relations, transitive physical baseTables, CTE names and top-level cteFacts, original starProjections, set-operation branches, transform kinds, conservative projection nullability, optional type hints, and upstream column references. The API is additive and uses the same optional ValidationSchema shape as schema-aware validation and lineage. Each set-operation branch is classified as a value or filter contribution. Validation uses broad type families, while query analysis preserves detailed schema type strings such as DECIMAL(10,2) for typeHint values when they can be parsed. For physical relations, name remains the qualified display name while catalog, schema, and table expose parsed identifier parts for consumers that need to distinguish qualifiers from table names.

Validation schema JSON uses:

{
  "strict": true,
  "tables": [
    {
      "name": "orders",
      "schema": "analytics",
      "aliases": ["o"],
      "primaryKey": ["id"],
      "uniqueKeys": [["external_id"]],
      "foreignKeys": [
        {
          "columns": ["customer_id"],
          "references": { "table": "customers", "columns": ["id"] }
        }
      ],
      "columns": [
        { "name": "id", "type": "INT", "nullable": false, "primaryKey": true },
        { "name": "amount", "type": "DECIMAL(10,2)", "nullable": true }
      ]
    }
  ]
}

Use the type key for column types in JSON. dataType / data_type are not accepted aliases for this schema payload.

Format Guard Rails

SQL formatting runs through guard limits in Rust core to prevent pathological inputs from exhausting memory:

maxInputBytes: 16 MiB (default)
maxTokens: 1_000_000 (default)
maxAstNodes: 1_000_000 (default)
maxSetOpChain: 256 (default)

Guard failures return error codes in the message (E_GUARD_INPUT_TOO_LARGE, E_GUARD_TOKEN_BUDGET_EXCEEDED, E_GUARD_AST_BUDGET_EXCEEDED, E_GUARD_SET_OP_CHAIN_EXCEEDED).

Configuration surface by runtime:

Rust: configurable via format_with_options.
WASM: configurable via format_sql_with_options / format_sql_with_options_value.
TypeScript SDK: configurable via formatWithOptions.
C FFI: configurable via polyglot_format_with_options.
Python: configurable via keyword-only format_sql(..., max_*) overrides.

WASM low-level example (from polyglot-sql-wasm exports):

import init, { format_sql_with_options } from "./polyglot_sql_wasm.js";

await init();
const raw = format_sql_with_options(
  "SELECT a,b FROM t",
  "generic",
  JSON.stringify({
    maxInputBytes: 2 * 1024 * 1024,
    maxTokens: 250000,
    maxAstNodes: 250000,
    maxSetOpChain: 128
  }),
);
const result = JSON.parse(raw);

Stack Safety

On native Rust builds, polyglot-sql enables the optional stacker feature by default. This adds stack-growth protection around the deepest parser / generator / transpile entry points so pathological or heavily nested SQL is less likely to abort the process with a stack overflow.

Important scope notes:

Rust, C FFI, and Python native builds inherit this by default.
WASM does not use stacker; polyglot-sql-wasm depends on the core crate with default-features = false.
A few paths still use explicitly larger thread stacks as defense-in-depth for very deep workloads, especially some test harnesses, the Python worker thread, and the bench_json example.

If you want to disable stacker for a native Rust build, turn off default features and opt back into the ones you need:

[dependencies]
polyglot-sql = { version = "0.9.2", default-features = false, features = ["all-dialects", "transpile"] }

That can reduce overhead slightly on trusted inputs, but you lose the default stack-growth protection for deeply nested SQL.

Project Structure

polyglot/
├── crates/
│   ├── polyglot-sql/           # Core Rust library (parser, generator, builder)
│   ├── polyglot-sql-function-catalogs/ # Optional dialect function catalogs (feature-gated data)
│   ├── polyglot-sql-wasm/      # WASM bindings
│   ├── polyglot-sql-ffi/       # C ABI bindings (.so/.dylib/.dll + .a/.lib + header)
│   └── polyglot-sql-python/    # Python bindings (PyO3 + maturin, published on PyPI)
├── packages/
│   ├── sdk/                    # TypeScript SDK (@polyglot-sql/sdk on npm)
│   ├── go/                     # Go SDK backed by polyglot-sql-ffi
│   ├── documentation/          # TypeScript API documentation site
│   ├── playground/             # Playground for testing the SDK (React 19, Tailwind v4, Vite)
│   └── python-docs/            # Python API documentation site (Cloudflare Pages)
├── examples/
│   ├── rust/                   # Rust example
│   ├── typescript/             # TypeScript SDK example
│   └── c/                      # C FFI example
└── tools/
    ├── sqlglot-compare/        # Test extraction & comparison tool
    └── bench-compare/          # Performance benchmarks

Examples

Standalone example projects are available in the examples/ directory. Each one pulls the latest published package and can be run independently.

Rust

cargo run --manifest-path examples/rust/Cargo.toml

TypeScript

cd examples/typescript
pnpm install --ignore-workspace && pnpm start

Building from Source

# Build Rust core
cargo build -p polyglot-sql

# Build C FFI crate (shared/static libs + generated header)
cargo build -p polyglot-sql-ffi --profile ffi_release

# Build Python extension / wheel
make develop-python
make build-python

# Build WASM + TypeScript SDK
make build-all

# Or step by step:
cd crates/polyglot-sql-wasm && wasm-pack build --target bundler --release
cd packages/sdk && npm run build

C FFI

Polyglot provides a stable C ABI in crates/polyglot-sql-ffi.

Crate README: crates/polyglot-sql-ffi/README.md
Generated header: crates/polyglot-sql-ffi/polyglot_sql.h
Example program: examples/c/main.c
Make targets:
- make build-ffi
- make generate-ffi-header
- make build-ffi-example
- make test-ffi

For tagged releases (v*), CI also attaches prebuilt FFI artifacts and checksums to GitHub Releases.

Python Bindings

Polyglot provides first-party Python bindings in crates/polyglot-sql-python.

Crate README: crates/polyglot-sql-python/README.md
Package name on PyPI: polyglot-sql
Make targets:
- make develop-python
- make test-python
- make typecheck-python
- make build-python

Function Catalogs

Optional dialect function catalogs are provided via crates/polyglot-sql-function-catalogs.

Crate README: crates/polyglot-sql-function-catalogs/README.md
Core feature flags:
- stacker (enabled by default on native polyglot-sql builds)
- function-catalog-clickhouse
- function-catalog-duckdb
- function-catalog-all-dialects
Intended behavior: compile-time inclusion, one-time load in core, auto-use during schema validation type checks.

Testing

Polyglot currently runs 11,333 SQLGlot fixture cases plus additional project-specific suites. All strict pass/fail suites are at 100% in the latest verification run.

Category	Count	Pass Rate
SQLGlot generic identity	977	100%
SQLGlot dialect identity	4,086	100%
SQLGlot transpilation	6,061	100%
SQLGlot transpile (generic)	154	100%
SQLGlot parser	32	100%
SQLGlot pretty-print	23	100%
Lib unit tests (non-ignored)	1,150	100%
Custom dialect identity	276	100%
Custom dialect transpilation	347	100%
ClickHouse parser corpus (non-skipped)	9,417	100%
ClickHouse normalized round trips (in-scope)	121,020	100%
FFI tests (unit + integration)	67	100%
Python bindings tests (non-skipped)	178	100%
Total (strict Rust/FFI pass/fail case count)	143,610	100%

One Rust unit test is ignored, one Python capability-contract test is skipped unless POLYGLOT_API_CONTRACT is configured (179/179 pass when it is), and 172 out-of-scope KQL/non-SQL ClickHouse fixtures are excluded from the strict counts.

# Setup fixtures (required once)
make setup-fixtures

# Run all tests
make test-rust-all          # All 11,333 SQLGlot fixture cases
make test-rust-lib          # 1,150 active lib unit tests (1 ignored)
make test-rust-verify       # All 143,610 strict Rust/FFI cases
make test-ffi               # 67 FFI unit/integration tests
make test-python            # 178 active Python tests (1 contract test skipped by default)

# Individual test suites
make test-rust-identity     # 977 generic identity cases
make test-rust-dialect      # 4,086 dialect identity cases
make test-rust-transpile    # 6,061 transpilation cases
make test-rust-transpile-generic # 154 generic transpile cases
make test-rust-parser       # 32 parser cases
make test-rust-pretty       # 23 pretty-print cases
make test-rust-clickhouse-parser   # 9,417 ClickHouse files
make test-rust-clickhouse-coverage # 121,020 normalized round trips

# Additional tests
make test-rust-roundtrip    # Organized roundtrip unit tests
make test-rust-matrix       # Dialect matrix transpilation tests
make test-rust-compat       # SQLGlot compatibility tests
make test-rust-errors       # Error handling tests
make test-rust-functions    # Function normalization tests

# TypeScript SDK tests
cd packages/sdk && npm test

# Full comparison against Python SQLGlot
make test-compare

Benchmarks

make bench-compare          # Compare polyglot-sql vs sqlglot performance
make bench-rust             # Rust benchmarks (JSON output)
make bench-python           # Python sqlglot benchmarks (JSON output)
cargo bench -p polyglot-sql  # Criterion benchmarks

SQLGlot comparison targets build Polyglot with the same python_release profile used for published Python wheels. This keeps benchmark optimizer settings aligned with the shipped Python package; the first build can take several minutes because it uses thin LTO.

Fuzzing

cargo +nightly fuzz run fuzz_parser
cargo +nightly fuzz run fuzz_roundtrip
cargo +nightly fuzz run fuzz_transpile

Makefile Targets

Target	Description
`make help`	Show all available commands
`make build-all`	Build core release + FFI + Python + bindings + WASM/SDK
`make build-wasm`	Build WASM package + TypeScript SDK
`make build-ffi`	Build C FFI crate (`ffi_release` profile)
`make generate-ffi-header`	Generate C header via cbindgen/build.rs
`make build-ffi-example`	Build + run C example against FFI lib
`make develop-python`	Build/install Python extension in uv-managed env
`make build-python`	Build Python wheels with maturin (`python_release` profile)
`make test-ffi`	Run FFI integration tests
`make test-rust`	Run SQLGlot-named Rust tests in `polyglot-sql`
`make test-rust-all`	Run all 11,333 SQLGlot fixture cases
`make test-rust-lib`	Run 1,150 active lib unit tests (1 ignored)
`make test-rust-verify`	Full verification suite
`make test-rust-clickhouse-parser`	Run strict ClickHouse parser suite
`make test-rust-clickhouse-coverage`	Run the strict ClickHouse normalized round-trip suite
`make test-compare`	Compare against Python sqlglot
`make bench-compare`	Performance comparison
`make bench-rust-parsing-report`	Run `rust_parsing` bench and generate Markdown report
`make bench-parse`	Core parse benchmark (polyglot vs sqlglot)
`make bench-parse-quick`	Faster core parse benchmark mode
`make bench-parse-full`	Parse benchmark including optional parsers
`make extract-fixtures`	Regenerate JSON fixtures from Python
`make setup-fixtures`	Create fixture symlink for Rust tests
`make generate-bindings`	Generate TypeScript type bindings
`make test-python`	Run Python bindings tests
`make typecheck-python`	Run Python bindings type-check
`make documentation-build`	Build documentation site
`make documentation-deploy`	Deploy documentation to Cloudflare Pages
`make python-docs-build`	Build Python API docs site
`make python-docs-deploy`	Deploy Python API docs to Cloudflare Pages
`make playground-build`	Build playground
`make playground-deploy`	Deploy playground to Cloudflare Pages
`make clean`	Remove all build artifacts

Licenses

MIT