Gudu SQLFlow Product Docs
  • 1. Introduction
    • What is Gudu SQLFlow?
      • What SQLFlow can do
      • Architecture Overview
    • Getting Started
      • Sign up a new account
        • Team Management
        • Delete My Account
        • Activate by entering a coupon
      • How to use SQLFlow
      • Different modes in Gudu SQLFlow
        • Query mode
        • Job mode
      • Basic Usage
      • Convert SQL to E-R Diagram
      • Colors in SQLFlow Diagram
      • Show call relationship
    • Installation
      • Version and Users
        • Cloud and On-Premise version
        • SQLFlow before Version 6
          • For older version SQLFlow under Linux
          • For older version SQLFlow under MacOS
          • For older version SQLFlow under Windows
      • Linux
      • MacOS
      • Windows
      • Docker
      • Clickhouse Installation
        • Clickhouse For CentOs
        • Clickhouse For Ubuntu/Debian/RHEL
      • Troubleshooting
      • Upgrade
      • Third Party Components
      • Renew License File
    • UI
      • SQLText Editor
      • Schema Explorer
      • Diagram Panel
      • Settings
      • Job Management
        • Job Sources
    • Dlineage Tool
      • Overview
      • Usage
        • Analyze data linege from SQL files
        • Analyze data linege from a database
        • Resolve the ambiguous columns in SQL query
        • Map the DataFlowAnalyzer and the settings on SQLFlow UI
        • Settings
      • Dataflow.xml structure
      • FAQ
  • 2. CONCEPTS
    • Data Lineage Basics
      • Dataflow
        • Relations generated by SQLFlow
      • Direct Dataflow
      • Indirect Dataflow
      • Aggregate function and Dataflow
      • Dataflow chain
    • Data Lineage Format Reference
  • 3. API Docs
    • Prerequisites
    • Using the Rest API
    • SQLFlow Rest API reference
      • User Interface
      • Generation Interface
        • /sqlflow
        • /sqlflow/selectedgraph/table_level_lineage
        • /sqlflow/selectedgraph/image
        • /sqlflow/graph
        • /sqlflow/graph/table_level_lineage
        • /sqlflow/graph/image
        • /sqlflow/downstreamGraph
        • /sqlflow/upstreamGraph
        • /sqlflow/erdiagramSelectGraph
        • /sqlflow/leftMostSourceTableGraph
      • Job Interface
        • /submitUserJob
        • /displayUserJobSummary
        • /displayUserJobsSummary
        • /exportLineageAsJson
        • /exportFullLineageAsJson
        • /exportLineageAsGraphml
        • /submitPersistJob
        • /displayUserLatestJobTableLevelLineage
      • Export Image
      • Export CSV
        • /sqlflow/exportFullLineageAsCsv
        • /job/exportFullLineageAsCsv
    • Swagger UI
    • Export the data lineage result
    • Python
      • Basic Usage
      • Advanced Usage
    • SQL Parser API
      • checkSyntax
  • 4. SQLFlow Widget
    • Widget Get started
    • Usages
    • Widget API Reference
  • 5. Databases
    • Database Objects
      • Azure
      • DB2
  • 6. SQLFlow-ingester
    • Introduction
      • SQLFlow-Exporter
      • SQLFlow-Extractor
      • SQLFlow-Submitter
    • Get Started
      • SQL Server
    • SQLFlow-Ingester Java API Usage
    • Understand the format of exported data
      • Oracle
      • Microsoft SQL Server
      • MySQL
      • PostgreSQL
    • List of Supported dbVendors
    • Git Repo
    • Third Party Components
  • 7. Reference
    • Lineage Model
      • Json Format Lineage Model
      • XML Format Lineage Model
      • Data Lineage Elements
    • Database Model
  • 8. other
    • FAQ
      • Handling Internal Database
      • Delete Your Account
      • Table Form Data Without Intermediates
      • Not all schema exported from Oracle
      • Lineage Customization
    • Roadmap
    • SQL Samples
      • Exchange table partition
      • Generate relationship for renamed table
      • Snowflake table function lineage detection
    • Change Logs
    • SQLFlow with Oracle XML functions
    • Major Organizations Utilizing SQLFlow
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Architecture Overview

https://github.com/sqlparser/sqlflow_public/blob/master/sqlflow_architecture.md

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SQLFlow components

SQLFlow frontend

  1. Send the SQL script received from the browser to the backend.

  2. After receiving the result, visualize the diagram model in the browser and show the data lineage and diagram model generated by the backend.

  3. Highlight the dataflow in the diagram when the user clicks on a specific table/column.

SQLFlow backend

  1. FlowLayout: Calculating the layout of database objects(table/column) in the dlineage and generate the diagram model with all necessary position data, including nodes and edges. FlowLayout depends on doLayout library to layout the database objects.

  2. Return a JSON snippet including the data lineage and diagram model to the frontend.

SQLFlow-Analyzer: receiving the SQL script from the frontend and parse the SQL script into parsed tree nodes with , calculating the data lineage by analyzing AST.

The SQLFlow-Analyzer component can be executed as a standalone tool. Take SQL text as input and generate data lineage in JSON format. Check for more Info.

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