EAeatonphil·May 31, 2022Submission
Show HN: DataStation – App to easily query, script, and visualize data
131 points · Open discussionmultiprocessio
datastation
TypeScript2021–2023
multiprocessio / datastation
datastation
App to easily query, script, and visualize data from every database, file, and API.
2Distinct people
44Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
3KGitHub stars
What to know before exploring
What it is
App to easily query, script, and visualize data from every database, file, and API.
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Where it is used
No documented product use has been verified yet.
What people are saying
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Also in these discussions
- multiprocessio/dsq · linked in 5 of the same discussions
Mentioned in the same Hacker News threads. That is not proof they are substitutes.
This week on Hacker News
Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 4:00:59 PM UTC.
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Mentions over time
HN mentions by month44 dated mentions
Observed mentions: 2021-06-12 11:55:28 UTC to 2023-03-08 21:42:53 UTC.
Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| Jun 2021 | 2021-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Jul 2021 | 2021-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Aug 2021 | 2021-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| Sep 2021 | 2021-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| Oct 2021 | 2021-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Nov 2021 | 2021-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| Dec 2021 | 2021-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 6 | 1 | 5 |
| Jan 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| Feb 2022 | 2022-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| Mar 2022 | 2022-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 7 | 0 | 7 |
| Apr 2022 | 2022-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 5 | 0 | 5 |
| May 2022 | 2022-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 4 | 1 | 3 |
| Jun 2022 | 2022-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Jul 2022 | 2022-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Aug 2022 | 2022-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 2022 | 2022-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 2022 | 2022-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 2022 | 2022-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 2022 | 2022-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Feb 2023 | 2023-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 2023 | 2023-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
What Hacker News says
4 sourcesI use Electron for DataStation [0]. Electron has builtin message passing between the UI layer and the main process. I built a small wrapper around this in TypeScript so I could have the messages be typechecked.
Within the main process I actually have it call a Go process to handle all the heavy lifting that goes on in DataStation like database queries, HTTP requests, etc. Communication between the Nodejs main process and the Go process just happens in temp files. All long-term data is stored in SQLite.
Happy to talk more about it if you want! My email is in my profile.
[0] https://github.com/multiprocessio/datastation
In Ask HN: What are modern architecture patterns for desktop applications?I build a somewhat similar app, DataStation [0], that is in JavaScript and Go. It supports scripting in Python, Julia, R, JavaScript, Ruby, etc.
The server version of it exists and I run it myself but that process is not documented yet. (Most people use it as a desktop app today.)
[0] https://github.com/multiprocessio/datastation
In Windmill.devMy biggest issue with Pyodide (which is of course an awesome project/build on its own) is the long wait times. I haven't figured out a way around a ~5 second load time where the entire UI hangs every single time you load the page.
My app (similar to Simon's, a lite mode of a data IDE): https://app.datastation.multiprocess.io.
My code: https://github.com/multiprocessio/datastation/blob/main/shar....
In Datasette Lite: a server-side Python web application running in a browser