0Sql
Semantic Layer as a Service
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Details
- External ID
- 49982997
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- 0Sql
- Website domain
- 0sql.io
- Launched
- Oct. 6, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 7
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.39
- Tags
- —
Description
We pulled out the semantic layer from our other app (Strata.do) and made it a standalone service. Now anyone can build data apps with an integrated deterministic, secure, and fast query layer.How it works: 1. Use the zsql cli to build your model locally 2. zsql deploy (self hosted versions soon) 3. Post a query spec to your projects end point 4. Get back SQLWe never connect to your data warehouse or see any actual data. We only see your model and generate valid sql's.This is an alternative to using Cube, MetricFlow, Semantic Views, and various other solutions. See our comparison table for the key differences: https://www.0sql.io/#compareThanks for checking it out! What do you think??
Enrichment
- Niche
- database management systems and engines
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Data infrastructure
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- managed semantic layer for sql databases
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial A basic SQL template generator is trivial, but an enterprise semantic layer engine that reliably compiles complex dimensional models, joins, cohorts, and row-level security deterministically across multiple warehouse dialects in microseconds requires deep compiler and database internals expertise.
What it would actually take: The core engine needs an intermediate representation (IR) compiler built in Rust or Go that builds an abstract syntax tree (AST) from incoming semantic specifications, performs graph-based join resolution, evaluates transitive relationships, and compiles dialect-specific SQL (Snowflake, BigQuery, Postgres) without execution.
Discussion
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Competitors
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Attention rank: #83 of 132 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 342 days after the earliest competitor.
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