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Tristan Pollock

FriendlyData - Communicate with databases like a human

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FriendlyData is the cloud solution that helps companies make data accessible for non technical people by providing natural language interface to databases.

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Tristan Pollock
Hunter
I’d much rather be able to ask questions about the data like a human being, instead of learning SQL or hiring data scientist. FriendlyData makes work with data as simple as searching in Google. Nuff said.
Michael Rumiantsau
Maker
@writerpollock Thanks for hunting us, Tristan!
Tristan Pollock
Hunter
@micrum of course! keep up the good fight.
Michael Rumiantsau
Maker
Hi Product Hunters, Co-Founder of FriendlyData here. I’m happy to answer any questions! FriendlyData is the cloud solution that helps businesses make data accessible for non technical people by providing natural language interface to databases. We’d appreciate your feedback!
Oksana Bespalova
I'm a marketing manager and often have to download data from CRM, using SQL. It was a real nightmare for me with all that SELECT, FROM, WHERE, etc. Thanks, FriendlyData! Guys, you simplified my work!
Alex Zaytsav
Maker
@oksana_bespalova thanks, Oksana! We are really happy to make your work(and life) simpler by avoiding need to learn SQL. It's our pleasure to help you!
Aram Shahinyan
So what you do is basically what Steven Hawking does in terms of explaining physics to ordinary people :)
Michael Rumiantsau
Maker
@aramiggs haha :D truly - our mission is to bridge the gap between technology and human. Thanks for the support!
Csaba Kissi
This is very interesting for those who aren't DB maniacs like me 😜. Good job guys!
Michael Rumiantsau
Maker
@csaba_kissi indeed :) Yet we are engineers, we've built FriendlyData to make data friendly for non technical people. Thanks for the support!
Valentine Zavadskiy
This thing is extremely exciting and can replace admin panel for you product. Good job!
Alex Zaytsav
Maker
@saicheg thanks, Valentine! That is our goal - to simplify all such messy interfaces.
Arsen Avdalyan
We're using Postgres. Can we use it? What kind of databases do you support in general?
Alex Zaytsav
Maker
@arsen_avdalyan yes, you can(and probably you should ;)) use it. Right now we support all popular relational databases, and Postgres is definitely one of them.
Michael Rumiantsau
Maker
@franciskim_co Thanks Francis, we thrilled to be in the club!
Dmitry Solomentsev
Also, could you explain in a nutshell - how do you do it? Is it a new great application of deep learning?
Alex Zaytsav
Maker
@dmitry_solomentsev another great question! Let's assume that it's a some kind of mix between deep learning and magic!
Ming Ma
Awesome idea! I wonder how complex your query can get? For example: Get me customers who have ordered parts shipped from Canada and supplier is not from Canada and orders for last month with transaction more than $500. And how would you solve DB performance when involved with multiple tables join? In addition, how would your system know about my table structures? If in my database I have a table called "com_cad" that stores a list of companies name. When I ask "show companies..." how would your system know the companies info is stored in "com_cad" table?
Alexey Zenovich
Maker
@mingliangma thanks! We support multiple joins but haven't support subquery. It's a good question about DB perfomance. For example, we try to analyze which type of join should we use but it's ofc not a level of good DBA. We do our best to improve query optimizations it in future.
Ming Ma
@alexey_zenovich I am really interested in your solution. I filled out the form on your website. And I'm really curious how would your system know about my table structures?
Alexey Zenovich
Maker
@mingliangma sorry, didn't see your edit. If the system has some even small data sample it analyzes and generates assumptions about 'human' columns name. Also, it's possible to add like a synonym name by hand and then system analyze queries based on it too.
Mikhail Trofimov
Hey guys, nice job! Is that API only or you have your own UI for that product?
Alex Zaytsav
Maker
@trof thank you, Mikhail! It's a cloud solution, so we provide API and you can build your own shiny UI over it!
Mikhail Salosin
Hi! Great product, but I'm too lazy to type a request, do you support speech-to-request? Thanks! 😃
Alex Zaytsav
Maker
@alphab Hi, Mikhail! Thank you! Yes, we do! And it's another step over current complicated user interfaces. You are welcome :)
Chris Buttenham
Solid product, solid team! NLP and messaging is the future 💯
Michael Rumiantsau
Maker
@chrisbuttenham Thank you for supporting us Chris!
Eugene
Great product! How did you guys come up with the idea?
Michael Rumiantsau
Maker
@medvednikov thanks Eugene! The idea is natural outgrowth of our experience - we’ve built a lot of sophisticated solutions for big companies. We know that data is the heart of decision making process in any business. At the same time there is no convenient interfaces for non-technical people. This is how we came up with the idea of FriendlyData
Dre Durr💡
I use to hate SQL, now I have a love/hate relationship. When will the launch be? I want to try it out
Michael Rumiantsau
Maker
@dredurr Product is launched in March! You can try our live demo here https://friendlydata.io/demo and request access to our API here https://friendlydata.io/contact
Arthur Varushyla
Looking forwards to intergration cases on a larger scale! Great product guys! Good luck!
Alex Zaytsav
Maker
@artuxa for relational database it's size isn't a limit for us. Thank you, Arthur!
Dmitry Solomentsev
Hi guys! The product is really great. Can we use it for the SQL-like languages for map-reduce like Hadoop Query Language and alike?
Alex Zaytsav
Maker
@dmitry_solomentsev hi Dmitry! Great question! To query over Hadoop you still need to choose some SQL-on-Hadoop technology(like Apache Hive or Apache Impala) and will be able to provide you a natural language interface over it.
FriendlyData
Is your project in some way similar to Wolfram-Alpha (it also understands common questions). Can it be compared with FriendlyData? What is the difference?
Alex Zaytsav
Maker
@maryna_dorash good question, Maryna! But it's a bit incorrect to compare us with this great system: we are doing different things. Wolfram-Alpha answers according to it's own knowledge or just making some calculations and we provide a way to get data via natural language from any connected database!
Max Kamenkov
Would love to hear some use cases - looks promising!
Alex Zaytsav
Maker
@mkamenkov thank you, Max! There are a lot of ways how you can use such tool: it can simplify(and replace) complicated interfaces with a lot of radio buttons and checkboxes or increase productivity by adding new functionality to the standard search inputs.
Jack Smith
great idea