# Comparison with Dataview
There are few other plugins which might sound like they do similar thing. The most popular of them, Dataview is an amazing project used by majority of Obsidian users so naturally I've got questions how does this compare to Dataview. Although I don't think this plugin is a replacement for dataview, and I personally use both of them on daily basis, here's the main comparison of the features:

| Feature                                            | Dataview                      | SQLSeal                              |
|----------------------------------------------------|-------------------------------|--------------------------------------|
| Querying Data from your vault (files, tags, tasks) | ✅                             | ✅                                    |
| Query language used                                | Dataview query language (DQL) | SQL (full compatibility with SQLite) |
| Mobile Support                                     | ✅                             | ✅                                    |
| Querying data files (CSV)                          | ❌                             | ✅                                    |
| Editing data files (CSV)                           | ❌                             | ✅                                    |
| Ability to join tables                             | ❌                             | ✅                                    |
| Ability to filter data                             | ✅                             | ✅                                    |
| Ability to perform basic aggregations              |                               |                                      |
| Support for inline queries                         | ✅ (using `=` prefix)          | ✅ (using `S>` prefix)                |
| Support for JavaScript                             | ✅                             | ❌ (planned in the future)            |

> [!NOTE]
> The table above is not-exhaustive and will be improved upon in the future.