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Sorry if I missed it -- Are there plans to offer a way to query this in actual sql? I believe SingleStore is MySQL compatible for example which I think is a nice feature. Basically I want to be able to interact with this much like I'd interact with another database I'm using or perhaps with a sqlalchemy core integration (which both SingleStore and Snowflake have).

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Yes -- we are building a sql compiler to the dataframe API. It currently passes half of TPC-H, but is not really ready. It will be open-sourced soon.

The SQL optimizations like predicate pushdown and early projection are all there already in the dataframe API, similar to Polars.

> It will be open-sourced soon.

Just reminds many of such projects like Lightworks:

> Editor's note: The intent for Lightworks to go open source seems to have been abandoned.

[0] https://opensource.com/business/12/10/lightworks-linux-devel...

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