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Out-of-the-box ETL, easy to learn, and a pleasure to use!

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$ pip install meerschaum

What is Meerschaum?

Meerschaum is a platform for quickly creating and managing time-series data streams called pipes. With Meerschaum, you can have a data visualization stack running in minutes.

Why Meerschaum?

Two words: Incremental updates. Fetch the data you need, and Meerschaum will handle the rest.

If you've worked with time-series data, you know the headaches that come with ETL. Meerschaum is a system that makes consolidating and syncing data easy.

Meerschaum instead gives you better tools to define and sync your data streams. And don't worry — you can always incorporate Meerschaum into your existing systems.


✨ Features

Organize ETL Processes into Pipes

Meerschaum Pipes are parametrized ETL processes that are tagged and organized into hierarchies to make scaling up a breeze.


Robust Plugin System

Plugins make it easy to ingest any data source, add functionality to Meerschaum, and organize your utility scripts.

Clean Connector Management

Define your connectors at any level: through the CLI, in your environment, or dynamically.

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### You can follow an interactive wizard.
mrsm bootstrap connector

### Or define connectors in your environment.
export MRSM_SQL_BAZ='postgresql://foo:bar@localhost:5432/baz'
export MRSM_MONGODB_LOCAL='{
  "uri": "mongodb://localhost:27017",
  "database": "meerschaum"
}'

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### Or you can build connectors on-the-fly in code.
import meerschaum as mrsm
conn = mrsm.get_connector('sql:demo', flavor='sqlite', database='/tmp/demo.db')

Design, Develop, and Deploy with Meerschaum Compose

The compose workflow allows you to iterate with and version-control your pipes, making collaboration and maintainability much smoother.

Performant SQL Transformations

SQL pipes with the same instance and source connector are synced in-place ― deltas are resolved entirely through SQL and nothing is loaded into RAM.

Concurrency at its Finest

Maximize your throughput by syncing multiple pipes in parallel.

Elegant Chunking

Calm your out-of-memory fears with automatic, parallelized chunking.

Simple-Yet-Powerful API

Want to use Meerschaum in your code? Check out the package documentation! 
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import meerschaum as mrsm
conn = mrsm.get_connector("sql:demo", uri="sqlite:////tmp/demo.db")

pipe = mrsm.Pipe(
    'foo', 'bar',
    instance = conn,
    columns = {'datetime': 'dt', 'id': 'id'},
    dtypes = {'attrs': 'json'},
)
docs = [
    {'dt': '2023-01-01', 'id': 1, 'val': 123.4},
    {'dt': '2023-01-01', 'id': 2, 'val': 567.8},
]
pipe.sync(docs)

docs = [
    {'dt': '2023-01-01', 'id': 1, 'attrs': {'foo': 'bar'}},
]
pipe.sync(docs)

df = pipe.get_data(params={'id': [1, 2]})
print(df)
#           dt  id    val           attrs
# 0 2023-01-01   1  123.4  {'foo': 'bar'}
# 1 2023-01-01   2  567.8            None

Extensible Connectors Interface

Add custom connector types with the @make_connector decorator. 
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from meerschaum.connectors import make_connector, Connector
required = ['requests']

@make_connector
class NWSConnector(Connector):

    REQUIRED_ATTRIBUTES = ['username', 'password']

    def fetch(self, pipe, begin=None, end=None, **kw):
        params = {}
        begin = begin or pipe.get_sync_time()
        if begin:
            params['start'] = begin.isoformat()
        if end:
            params['end'] = end.isoformat()

        stations = pipe.parameters.get('nws', {}).get('stations', [])
        for station in stations:
            url = f"https://api.weather.gov/stations/{station}/observations"
            response = self.session.get(url, params=params)
            yield [
                feature['properties']
                for feature in response.json()['features']
            ]

    @property
    def session(self):
        _sesh = self.__dict__.get('_session', None)
        if _sesh is not None:
            return _sesh
        import requests
        self._session = requests.Session()
        self._session.auth = (self.username, self.password)
        return self._session

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Support the Project

I work on Meerschaum in my free time, so if you enjoy the project and want to support its development, feel free to buy me a coffee! You can also support the project on my GitHub Sponsors page.

Consulting Services

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