Chat with your database in plain English — locally, for free
DB-GPT is an open-source framework that allows users to interact with databases using natural language. It translates plain English queries into SQL, executes them, and visualizes the results automatically. This tool is fully self-hosted and free, supporting various database systems like PostgreSQL and MySQL.
- ▪DB-GPT enables users to ask questions in plain English without requiring SQL knowledge.
- ▪It supports multiple databases including PostgreSQL, MySQL, and SQLite.
- ▪The tool generates SQL queries, executes them, and renders charts automatically in the user interface.
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| Original publisher | DEV.to (Top) |
| Canonical URL | https://dev.to/retrovirusretro/chat-with-your-database-in-plain-english-locally-for-free-2l0c |
| Publication time | Wed, 20 May 2026 21:28:03 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-05-20T21:35:03.014Z |
| Last seen | 2026-05-20T21:35:03.014Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | NA168MCpMfab |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
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try { if(localStorage) { let currentUser = localStorage.getItem('current_user'); if (currentUser) { currentUser = JSON.parse(currentUser); if (currentUser.id === 3942939) { document.getElementById('article-show-container').classList.add('current-user-is-article-author'); } } } } catch (e) { console.error(e); } retrovirusretro Posted on May 20 Chat with your database in plain English — locally, for free #ai #docker #ollama #database "What were our top 10 customers last quarter by revenue, as a bar chart?" DB-GPT translates that to SQL, runs it against your database, and renders the chart. No SQL knowledge required. Fully local. MIT licensed. 17K GitHub stars — almost no English content.
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