relational/README.md

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Relational an educational tool to provide a workspace for experimenting with *relational* *algebra*, an offshoot of first-order logic.
It provides GUI that can be used for executing relational queries, and also provides a command line interface.
Provides a standalone Python module that can be used for executing relational queries, parsing relational expressions and optimizing them.
Install
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Windows installer can be found here: https://code.google.com/p/relational/downloads/list
For Linux, check your distribution's packages, relational is available on Debian and Ubuntu.
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Syntax
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These are some valid queries
```
σage > 25 and rank == weight(A)
σ (name.upper().startswith('J') and age>21 )(people)
Q ᐅᐊ π a,b(A) ᐅᐊ B
ρid➡i,name➡n(A) - π a,b(π a,b(A)) ᑎ σage > 25 or rank = weight(A)
π a,b(π a,b(A))
ρid➡i,name➡n(π a,b(A))
A ᐅᐊ B
```
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More documentation can be found here http://ltworf.github.io/relational/
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Run from sources
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To launch the application, run
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```
./relational_gui.py
```
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If it needs some dependencies:
Qt5, Python 3.4 or greater, PyQt5
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It can run on osx but this is not supported.