Ibis: Build your SQL Queries via Python ‒ One API for nearly 20 Backends
What is Ibis and Why Would You Use It? Ibis is a backend agnostic query builder / dataframe API for Python. Think of it as an interface for dynamically generating & executing SQL queries via Python. Ibis provides a unified API for a variety of backends like Snowflake, BigQuery, DuckDB, polars or PySpark. But why would this be useful? I mainly use it for: Generating complex dynamic queries where (Jinja-)templating would becomes too messy Writing SQL generation as self-contained, easily testable Python functions Switching out a production OLAP database (like Snowflake) at test time with a local & version controlled DuckDB instance containing test data If you know SQL you already know Ibis....