Query (routed)

curl --request POST \
  --url https://oleander.dev/api/v1/query \
  --header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>' \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --data @- <<EOF
{
  "query": "SELECT species, count(*) AS n FROM oleander.default.flowers GROUP BY 1",
  "script": "result = events.group_by('day').len()",
  "tables": [],
  "engine": "auto",
  "destination": "default.daily_counts",
  "write_mode": "overwrite",
  "explain": false
}
EOF

import requests

url = "https://oleander.dev/api/v1/query"

payload = {
    "query": "SELECT species, count(*) AS n FROM oleander.default.flowers GROUP BY 1",
    "script": "result = events.group_by('day').len()",
    "tables": [],
    "engine": "auto",
    "destination": "default.daily_counts",
    "write_mode": "overwrite",
    "explain": False
}
headers = {
    "Authorization": "Bearer <token>",
    "Content-Type": "application/json"
}

response = requests.post(url, json=payload, headers=headers)

print(response.text)

const options = {
  method: 'POST',
  headers: {Authorization: 'Bearer <token>', 'Content-Type': 'application/json'},
  body: JSON.stringify({
    query: 'SELECT species, count(*) AS n FROM oleander.default.flowers GROUP BY 1',
    script: 'result = events.group_by(\'day\').len()',
    tables: [],
    engine: 'auto',
    destination: 'default.daily_counts',
    write_mode: 'overwrite',
    explain: false
  })
};

fetch('https://oleander.dev/api/v1/query', options)
  .then(res => res.json())
  .then(res => console.log(res))
  .catch(err => console.error(err));

<?php

$curl = curl_init();

curl_setopt_array($curl, [
  CURLOPT_URL => "https://oleander.dev/api/v1/query",
  CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
  CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
  CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
  CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
  CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
  CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "POST",
  CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => json_encode([
    'query' => 'SELECT species, count(*) AS n FROM oleander.default.flowers GROUP BY 1',
    'script' => 'result = events.group_by(\'day\').len()',
    'tables' => [
        
    ],
    'engine' => 'auto',
    'destination' => 'default.daily_counts',
    'write_mode' => 'overwrite',
    'explain' => false
  ]),
  CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
    "Authorization: Bearer <token>",
    "Content-Type: application/json"
  ],
]);

$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);

curl_close($curl);

if ($err) {
  echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
  echo $response;
}

package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"strings"
	"net/http"
	"io"
)

func main() {

	url := "https://oleander.dev/api/v1/query"

	payload := strings.NewReader("{\n  \"query\": \"SELECT species, count(*) AS n FROM oleander.default.flowers GROUP BY 1\",\n  \"script\": \"result = events.group_by('day').len()\",\n  \"tables\": [],\n  \"engine\": \"auto\",\n  \"destination\": \"default.daily_counts\",\n  \"write_mode\": \"overwrite\",\n  \"explain\": false\n}")

	req, _ := http.NewRequest("POST", url, payload)

	req.Header.Add("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
	req.Header.Add("Content-Type", "application/json")

	res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)

	defer res.Body.Close()
	body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)

	fmt.Println(string(body))

}

HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.post("https://oleander.dev/api/v1/query")
  .header("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
  .header("Content-Type", "application/json")
  .body("{\n  \"query\": \"SELECT species, count(*) AS n FROM oleander.default.flowers GROUP BY 1\",\n  \"script\": \"result = events.group_by('day').len()\",\n  \"tables\": [],\n  \"engine\": \"auto\",\n  \"destination\": \"default.daily_counts\",\n  \"write_mode\": \"overwrite\",\n  \"explain\": false\n}")
  .asString();

require 'uri'
require 'net/http'

url = URI("https://oleander.dev/api/v1/query")

http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true

request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(url)
request["Authorization"] = 'Bearer <token>'
request["Content-Type"] = 'application/json'
request.body = "{\n  \"query\": \"SELECT species, count(*) AS n FROM oleander.default.flowers GROUP BY 1\",\n  \"script\": \"result = events.group_by('day').len()\",\n  \"tables\": [],\n  \"engine\": \"auto\",\n  \"destination\": \"default.daily_counts\",\n  \"write_mode\": \"overwrite\",\n  \"explain\": false\n}"

response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body

{
  "success": true,
  "explain": true,
  "engine_decision": {
    "engine": "bloom",
    "execution_mode": "interactive",
    "reasons": [
      "not a script",
      "no external connection tables",
      "not DDL",
      "no destination table",
      "estimated input 1.2 GiB is below the distributed threshold",
      "sandbox 2 vCPU / 4 GB"
    ],
    "size_band": "small",
    "estimated_input_bytes": "1288490188",
    "vcpus": 2,
    "sandbox": {
      "vcpus": 2,
      "memory_gb": 4
    },
    "distributed": false,
    "worker_machine_type": "bloom.2.b",
    "worker_count": 4,
    "input_tables": [
      "oleander.default.events"
    ]
  },
  "results": {
    "columns": [
      "<string>"
    ],
    "column_types": [
      "<string>"
    ],
    "rows": [
      [
        "<unknown>"
      ]
    ]
  },
  "row_count": 123,
  "execution_time": "42ms",
  "run_id": "<string>",
  "output_table": "<string>",
  "compute": {},
  "job": {
    "namespace": "oleander.lake",
    "name": "query_9f2c1ab4"
  }
}

{
  "success": false,
  "error": "query and script are mutually exclusive."
}

{
  "success": false,
  "error": "Unauthorized"
}

{
  "success": false,
  "error": "A payment method is required to run this query"
}

{
  "success": false,
  "error": "This query requires a plan upgrade"
}

{
  "success": false,
  "error": "Query execution failed"
}

Queries

Query (routed)

The unified query endpoint. oleander parses the SQL, estimates how much data the referenced tables hold, and picks the engine (DuckDB, Polars, Bloom, or Spark) and machine size to match. Leave engine on auto unless you need a specific one.

Interactive reads return rows on the call. A query with a destination, a statement that names its own target, or a read too large for an interactive engine is submitted asynchronously and returns state: "SUBMITTED" with a run_id to poll.

This endpoint supersedes /api/v1/warehouse/query, which pins DuckDB and is sized by the org default rather than by the query.

POST

api

query

Query (routed)

curl --request POST \
  --url https://oleander.dev/api/v1/query \
  --header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>' \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --data @- <<EOF
{
  "query": "SELECT species, count(*) AS n FROM oleander.default.flowers GROUP BY 1",
  "script": "result = events.group_by('day').len()",
  "tables": [],
  "engine": "auto",
  "destination": "default.daily_counts",
  "write_mode": "overwrite",
  "explain": false
}
EOF

import requests

url = "https://oleander.dev/api/v1/query"

payload = {
    "query": "SELECT species, count(*) AS n FROM oleander.default.flowers GROUP BY 1",
    "script": "result = events.group_by('day').len()",
    "tables": [],
    "engine": "auto",
    "destination": "default.daily_counts",
    "write_mode": "overwrite",
    "explain": False
}
headers = {
    "Authorization": "Bearer <token>",
    "Content-Type": "application/json"
}

response = requests.post(url, json=payload, headers=headers)

print(response.text)

const options = {
  method: 'POST',
  headers: {Authorization: 'Bearer <token>', 'Content-Type': 'application/json'},
  body: JSON.stringify({
    query: 'SELECT species, count(*) AS n FROM oleander.default.flowers GROUP BY 1',
    script: 'result = events.group_by(\'day\').len()',
    tables: [],
    engine: 'auto',
    destination: 'default.daily_counts',
    write_mode: 'overwrite',
    explain: false
  })
};

fetch('https://oleander.dev/api/v1/query', options)
  .then(res => res.json())
  .then(res => console.log(res))
  .catch(err => console.error(err));

<?php

$curl = curl_init();

curl_setopt_array($curl, [
  CURLOPT_URL => "https://oleander.dev/api/v1/query",
  CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
  CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
  CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
  CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
  CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
  CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "POST",
  CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => json_encode([
    'query' => 'SELECT species, count(*) AS n FROM oleander.default.flowers GROUP BY 1',
    'script' => 'result = events.group_by(\'day\').len()',
    'tables' => [
        
    ],
    'engine' => 'auto',
    'destination' => 'default.daily_counts',
    'write_mode' => 'overwrite',
    'explain' => false
  ]),
  CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
    "Authorization: Bearer <token>",
    "Content-Type: application/json"
  ],
]);

$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);

curl_close($curl);

if ($err) {
  echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
  echo $response;
}

package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"strings"
	"net/http"
	"io"
)

func main() {

	url := "https://oleander.dev/api/v1/query"

	payload := strings.NewReader("{\n  \"query\": \"SELECT species, count(*) AS n FROM oleander.default.flowers GROUP BY 1\",\n  \"script\": \"result = events.group_by('day').len()\",\n  \"tables\": [],\n  \"engine\": \"auto\",\n  \"destination\": \"default.daily_counts\",\n  \"write_mode\": \"overwrite\",\n  \"explain\": false\n}")

	req, _ := http.NewRequest("POST", url, payload)

	req.Header.Add("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
	req.Header.Add("Content-Type", "application/json")

	res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)

	defer res.Body.Close()
	body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)

	fmt.Println(string(body))

}

HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.post("https://oleander.dev/api/v1/query")
  .header("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
  .header("Content-Type", "application/json")
  .body("{\n  \"query\": \"SELECT species, count(*) AS n FROM oleander.default.flowers GROUP BY 1\",\n  \"script\": \"result = events.group_by('day').len()\",\n  \"tables\": [],\n  \"engine\": \"auto\",\n  \"destination\": \"default.daily_counts\",\n  \"write_mode\": \"overwrite\",\n  \"explain\": false\n}")
  .asString();

require 'uri'
require 'net/http'

url = URI("https://oleander.dev/api/v1/query")

http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true

request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(url)
request["Authorization"] = 'Bearer <token>'
request["Content-Type"] = 'application/json'
request.body = "{\n  \"query\": \"SELECT species, count(*) AS n FROM oleander.default.flowers GROUP BY 1\",\n  \"script\": \"result = events.group_by('day').len()\",\n  \"tables\": [],\n  \"engine\": \"auto\",\n  \"destination\": \"default.daily_counts\",\n  \"write_mode\": \"overwrite\",\n  \"explain\": false\n}"

response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body

{
  "success": true,
  "explain": true,
  "engine_decision": {
    "engine": "bloom",
    "execution_mode": "interactive",
    "reasons": [
      "not a script",
      "no external connection tables",
      "not DDL",
      "no destination table",
      "estimated input 1.2 GiB is below the distributed threshold",
      "sandbox 2 vCPU / 4 GB"
    ],
    "size_band": "small",
    "estimated_input_bytes": "1288490188",
    "vcpus": 2,
    "sandbox": {
      "vcpus": 2,
      "memory_gb": 4
    },
    "distributed": false,
    "worker_machine_type": "bloom.2.b",
    "worker_count": 4,
    "input_tables": [
      "oleander.default.events"
    ]
  },
  "results": {
    "columns": [
      "<string>"
    ],
    "column_types": [
      "<string>"
    ],
    "rows": [
      [
        "<unknown>"
      ]
    ]
  },
  "row_count": 123,
  "execution_time": "42ms",
  "run_id": "<string>",
  "output_table": "<string>",
  "compute": {},
  "job": {
    "namespace": "oleander.lake",
    "name": "query_9f2c1ab4"
  }
}

{
  "success": false,
  "error": "query and script are mutually exclusive."
}

{
  "success": false,
  "error": "Unauthorized"
}

{
  "success": false,
  "error": "A payment method is required to run this query"
}

{
  "success": false,
  "error": "This query requires a plan upgrade"
}

{
  "success": false,
  "error": "Query execution failed"
}

Authorizations

Authorization

string

header

required

Bearer authentication header of the form Bearer <token>, where <token> is your auth token.

Body

application/json

Provide either query or script, never both.

query

string

The SQL to run.

Example:

"SELECT species, count(*) AS n FROM oleander.default.flowers GROUP BY 1"

script

string

A Polars DataFrame script that assigns result. Mutually exclusive with query; forces the Polars engine.

Example:

"result = events.group_by('day').len()"

tables

(string | object)[]

Tables a script reads, as "alias=namespace.table" or {alias, table}. Script mode only.

engine

enum<string>

default:auto

Ask for a specific engine. An impossible combination returns an engine capability error rather than rerouting.

Available options:

auto,

duckdb,

polars,

bloom,

spark

destination

string

Table to write the result to, as a dotted identifier such as namespace.table. Presence of a destination makes this a write.

Example:

"default.daily_counts"

write_mode

enum<string>

default:overwrite

Applies to a destination write. A statement that names its own target carries its own semantics.

Available options:

overwrite,

append

explain

boolean

default:false

Return the routing decision without executing anything or spending compute.

Response

Query executed, submitted, or explained.

success

boolean

Example:

true

explain

boolean

Present and true when explain was requested. No compute was spent and no other result fields are returned.

engine_decision

object

How the query router chose the engine and machine for this run.

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results

object | null

Rows, for interactive reads only. Absent on submitted runs.

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row_count

integer | null

execution_time

string | null

Example:

"42ms"

state

enum<string>

COMPLETE means the write already landed. SUBMITTED means a job is running and run_id must be polled.

Available options:

COMPLETE,

SUBMITTED

run_id

string | null

Run to poll when state is SUBMITTED.

output_table

string | null

Fully qualified destination table for a write.

compute

object | null

The sandbox or cluster that actually served the run. A warm larger sandbox can serve a smaller request, and that is the machine the org is billed for.

job

object

Lineage job identity for this query.

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