pgfire

Convert your postgresql database to a Realtime NoSql database accessible via REST APIs. Inspired from Firebase.

Setup Instructions

• git clone this repo
• pip install -r requirements.txt
• update config.json with db host, username and password
• run python app.py

Demo

• Create a DB

curl --location --request POST 'http://localhost:8666/createdb' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data-raw '{
	"db_name":"test_nosql_db"
}'

• Write Data Add a blog entry to path blog

curl --location --request PUT 'http://localhost:8666/database/test_nosql_db/blog' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data-raw '{
	"title":"a blog entry",
	"body": "some blah blah..."
}'

Add another blog entry

curl --location --request PUT 'http://localhost:8666/database/test_nosql_db/blog' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data-raw '{
	"title":"another blog entry",
	"body": "some more blah blah..."
}'

Read at path

curl --location --request GET 'http://localhost:8666/database/test_nosql_db/blog'
{
    "-M8eTWMpriELfoWJ0osW": {
        "body": "some blah blah...",
        "title": "a blog entry"
    },
    "-M8eUE4Yt004TQHQkjpG": {
        "body": "some more blah blah...",
        "title": "another blog entry"
    }
}

Read at root

curl --location --request GET 'http://localhost:8666/database/test_nosql_db/'
{
    "blog": {
        "-M8eTWMpriELfoWJ0osW": {
            "body": "some blah blah...",
            "title": "a blog entry"
        },
        "-M8eUE4Yt004TQHQkjpG": {
            "body": "some more blah blah...",
            "title": "another blog entry"
        }
    }
}

• Realtime notifications via Server Sent Events (SSE) Open two terminals

Terminal 1	Terminal 2
curl -N http://localhost:8666/database_events/test_nosql_db/blog
data: {"-M8eTWMpriELfoWJ0osW": {"body": "some blah blah...", "title": "a blog entry"}, "-M8eUE4Yt004TQHQkjpG": {"body": "some more blah blah...", "title": "another blog entry"}}
	curl --location --request POST 'http://localhost:8666/database/test_nosql_db/blog' \ --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \ --data-raw '{ "title":"another blog entry", "body": "some more blah blah..." }'
data: {"event": "put", "path": "blog/-M8eYCk1LLlWH-SwIkXi", "data": {"body": "some more blah blah...", "title": "another blog entry"}}

Todo

• Add user and role based access control
• Make a distributable package
• make a cli to create and manage databases
• Demo app
• Performance tests
• Support Transactions