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Trilogy Studio, open-source browser-based SQL editor and visualizer

Details

External ID
45870334
Source
HN
Company
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Product
Trilogy Studio, open-source browser-based SQL editor and visualizer
Website domain
trilogydata.dev
Launched
Nov. 9, 2025
Cohort
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Upvotes
19
Upvotes percentile
0.6834061135371179
Tags
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Fetched at
Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Updated at
Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.

Description

SQL-first analytic IDE; similar to Redash/Metabase. Aims to solve reuse/composability at the code layer with modified syntax, Trilogy, that includes a semantic layer directly in the SQL-like language.Status: experiment; feedback and contributions welcome!Built to solve 3 problems I have with SQL as my primary iterative analysis language:1. Adjusting queries/analysis takes a lot of boilerplate. Solve with queries that operate on the semantic layer, not tables. Also eliminates the need for CTEs.2. Sources of truth change all the time. I hate updating reports to reference new tables. Also solved by the semantic layer, since data bindings can be updated without changing dashboards or queries.3. Getting from SQL to visuals is too much work in many tools; make it as streamlined as possible. Surprise - solve with the semantic layer; add in more expressive typing to get better defaults;also use it to wire up automatic drilldowns/cross filtering.Supports: bigquery, duckdb, snowflake.Links [1] https://trilogydata.dev/ (language info)Git links: [Frontend] https://github.com/trilogy-data/trilogy-studio-core [Language] https://github.com/trilogy-data/pytrilogyPreviously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44106070 (significant UX/feature reworks since) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42231325

Enrichment

Theme
database infrastructure and developer tools
Vertical
Horizontal
Function
Dev tools
Audience
Developer
AI stance
Not AI
Project type
Hobby / open-source project
Normalized one-liner
browser-based sql editor and visualizer
Manually corrected
False

Could you build this?

Partial Building a browser-based SQL editor UI is straightforward, but developing a custom domain-specific language compiler/transpiler (Trilogy) with a semantic layer requires compiler engineering expertise.

What it would actually take: The frontend can use Monaco Editor, DuckDB-Wasm, and standard charting libraries, but the hard part is the custom DSL compiler. It requires building an AST parser, type checker, semantic graph resolver, and SQL transpiler that can translate semantic Trilogy queries into performant target SQL for various database dialects. This demands specialized knowledge of programming language design, compiler construction, and relational algebra.

Discussion

6 comments analyzed.

Concerns raised: Dashboard load fails with reset operation timeout after 60 seconds, CORS validation failures preventing initial dashboard connection, Static hosting too slow to serve packages in time

Feature requests: Post-deploy validation for serve latency

Competitors

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Attention rank: #38 of 100 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 11 days after the earliest competitor.

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