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A pure-python implementation of Datalog, a truly declarative language derived from prolog. Run logic queries on databases or python objects, and use logic clauses to define python classes.

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pyDatalog adds the logic programming paradigm to Python’s toolbox, in a pythonic way. You can now run logic queries on databases or Python objects, and use logic clauses to define python classes.

Datalog is a truly declarative language derived from Prolog, with strong academic foundations. It complements Python very well for:

  • managing large sets of related information (e.g. in data integration or in Natural Language Processing).

  • simulating intelligent behavior (e.g. for games or expert systems),

  • performing recursive algorithms (e.g. in network protocol, code and graph analysis, parsing)

  • solving discrete constraint problems.

In particular, pyDatalog can be used as a query language:

  • it can perform multi-database queries (from memory datastore, 11 relational databases, and noSQL database with appropriate connectors)

  • it is more expressive than SQL, with a cleaner syntax;

  • it facilitates re-use of query snippet (e.g. for frequent joins or formula).

Datalog excels at managing complexity : Datalog programs are often shorter than their Python equivalent, and Datalog statements can be specified in any order, as simply as formula in a spreadsheet.

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