Firebolt-CLI

Firebolt cli is a tool for connecting to firebolt, managing firebolt resources, and executing queries from the command line.

Quickstart

Prerequisites

python>=3.7 and pip should be installed beforehand. For this go to Python official page.

Also, you will need a firebolt account with information about username, password, database, and engine. For more information go to Firebolt.

Installation

Once you have all prerequisites in place, you can install the firebolt cli via pip:

$ pip install firebolt-cli

To verify the installation run:

$ firebolt --version

firebolt, version 0.0.1

Running

The next step is to configure the firebolt cli:

$ firebolt configure

Username [None]: your_username
Password [None]: ********
Account name [None]: your_firebolt_account_name
Database name [None]: your_database
Engine name or URL [None]: your_engine_name_or_url
Successfully updated firebolt-cli configuration

To run your first query, the engine has to be running. Check the status of the engine by executing the following command:

$ firebolt engine status --name your_engine_name

Engine your_engine_name current status is: ENGINE_STATUS_SUMMARY_STOPPED

If the engine is stopped, you have to start the engine by executing the following command:

$ firebolt engine start --name your_engine_name --wait

Engine your_engine_name is successfully started

Now you are ready to run your first query, this could be done by opening the interactive query

$ firebolt query

Connection succeded
firebolt> SELECT * FROM your_table LIMIT 5;
+--------------+-------------+-------------+--------------+
|   l_orderkey |   l_partkey |   l_suppkey | l_shipdate   |
+==============+=============+=============+==============+
|      5300614 |       66754 |        4273 | 1993-02-06   |
+--------------+-------------+-------------+--------------+
|      5300614 |      131772 |        6799 | 1993-02-21   |
+--------------+-------------+-------------+--------------+
|      5300615 |      106001 |        8512 | 1997-12-10   |
+--------------+-------------+-------------+--------------+
|      5300615 |      157833 |        7834 | 1997-12-01   |
+--------------+-------------+-------------+--------------+
|      5300640 |       36106 |        8610 | 1994-09-10   |
+--------------+-------------+-------------+--------------+
firebolt>

Usage

With firebolt cli you can manage the databases and engines, as well as run SQL quires.

$ firebolt --help

Usage: firebolt [OPTIONS] COMMAND [ARGS]...

  Firebolt command line utility.

Options:
  -V, --version  Show the version and exit.
  --help         Show this message and exit.

Commands:
  configure  Store firebolt configuration parameters in config file
  database   Manage the databases
  engine     Manage the engines
  query      Execute sql queries

For more information about a specific command use flag --help, e.g. firebolt database create --help.

Configure

There are three ways to configure firebolt cli:

1. Run firebolt configure and setting all parameters from STDIN.

Or you can set particular parameters by running configure with additional command-line arguments:

firebolt configure --username your_user_name --account-name firebolt

2. Pass additional command-line arguments to each command.

firebolt query --username your_user_name --engine-name your_running_engine

3. Use environment variable

$ export FIREBOLT_USERNAME=your_username
$ export FIREBOLT_PASSWORD=your_password
$ export FIREBOLT_ACCOUNT_NAME=your_account_name
$ export FIREBOLT_API_ENDPOINT=api_endpoint
$ export FIREBOLT_ENGINE_NAME_URL=your_engine_name_or_url
$ export FIREBOLT_ACCESS_TOKEN=access_token
$ firebolt query

Interactive SQL

To enter interactive SQL, firebolt CLI has to be configured using one of three methods from configuration section. Then simply run

$ firebolt query

firebolt> .help
.exit     Exit firebolt-cli
.help     Show this help message
.quit     Exit firebolt-cli
.tables   Show tables in current database
firebolt>

Interactive SQL mode also supports multiline commands and multiple statements;

firebolt> SELECT * FROM your_table
     ...> ORDER BY l_shipdate
     ...> LIMIT 2;
+--------------+-------------+-------------+--------------+
|   l_orderkey |   l_partkey |   l_suppkey | l_shipdate   |
+==============+=============+=============+==============+
|      1552449 |      159307 |        1823 | 1992-01-02   |
+--------------+-------------+-------------+--------------+
|      5431079 |       78869 |        6391 | 1992-01-02   |
+--------------+-------------+-------------+--------------+
firebolt>
firebolt> SELECT * FROM your_table1 LIMIT 1; SELECT * FROM your_table2 LIMIT 2;
+--------------+-------------+-------------+--------------+
|   l_orderkey |   l_partkey |   l_suppkey | l_shipdate   |
+==============+=============+=============+==============+
|      5300614 |       66754 |        4273 | 1993-02-06   |
+--------------+-------------+-------------+--------------+
+-------------+--------------+
|   l_suppkey | l_shipdate   |
+=============+==============+
|        8189 | 1996-03-03   |
+-------------+--------------+
|        8656 | 1996-02-27   |
+-------------+--------------+
firebolt> 

Managing resources

With firebolt cli it is also possible to manage databases and engines, for the full set of available features please see firebolt engine --help and firebolt database --help.

Docker

To start the work with docker, you should first pull the docker from the repository.

docker pull ghcr.io/firebolt-db/firebolt-cli:latest

Afterward, you will be able to run the cli and passing all configuration variables as environment variables.

Here is an example of getting a list of available engines:

docker run -e FIREBOLT_USERNAME="your_username"\
           -e FIREBOLT_PASSWORD="your_password"\  
           ghcr.io/firebolt-db/firebolt-cli:latest engine list