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by loeg 1519 days ago
> "Instead of learning jq DSL, learn zq DSL"

I think you got it — that’s exactly the idea. They claim (reasonably?) that it’s a more intuitive DSL; and it supports state. They also make some performance claims towards the end of the article.
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jerrysievert 1519 days ago
> They also make some performance claims towards the end of the article.

essentially a marginal speed increase they think on json, but a much bigger speed increase (5x-100x they claim) if you switch to their native format ZNG.

if I'm switching formats completely, I'm not sure why I care about jq vs zq in json performance ...

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loeg 1519 days ago
Marginally faster is better than marginally slower, at least. I agree the JSON use is probably more compelling than their ZNG thing.
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jerrysievert 1519 days ago
> I agree the JSON use is probably more compelling than their ZNG thing.

considering how much data I can already get via json (or converted to json via other json related standards such as geojson), there doesn't seem to be much of a compelling case to use ZNG.

I'd love to hear different though!

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