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RhyDB – High-performance analytical database for sequence alignment data

Is RhyOrg/RhyDB beginner-friendly?

In the last 30 days, RhyOrg/RhyDB merged 23 of 30 pull requests from outside contributors, and its maintainers usually reply within 1 day. 2 beginner-friendly issues are open now.

Stars
19
Forks
7
Open beginner issues
2
Indexed issues
151
Avg merge
1d 7h
Merged PRs (30d)
107
Dominant language
C++
License
AGPL-3.0
Last GitHub push
Oct 6, 2026
Latest indexed
Oct 6, 2026
No contributing guide
No code of conduct
Beginner labels
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How to contribute to RhyOrg/RhyDB

  1. There is no contributing guide, so start from the README and a few recently merged pull requests to see how changes are proposed.
  2. It ships a Dockerfile or Docker Compose file, so you can run it without installing its whole toolchain.
  3. Your contributions will be published under the project's AGPL-3.0 license.
  4. Pick one of the 2 open beginner-friendly issues below and comment that you want to work on it before you start.
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  • Implement `ScalarExpression::toArrowExpression` for all scalar expressions
    Open
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

    RhyOrg/RhyDB#1722 ·

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  • Correctly scope `group` key expressions
    Open
    • Is something wrong?

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 22/100

    RhyOrg/RhyDB#1696 ·

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  • Get mutations per sequence
    Open
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 28/100

    RhyOrg/RhyDB#1626 · 1 comment ·

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  • SaneQL: missing operators/constructs from the paper
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    epic

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 28/100

    RhyOrg/RhyDB#1613 ·

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  • Remove `sequence_count` (and others?) from `/info` result
    Open
    • Is something wrong?

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 28/100

    RhyOrg/RhyDB#1612 · 1 comment · 1 reaction ·

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  • Allow correlated subqueries
    Open
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 22/100

    RhyOrg/RhyDB#1606 ·

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  • Add subtraction function `-`
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    • Is something wrong?

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 62/100

    RhyOrg/RhyDB#1604 ·

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  • Add addition function `+`
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    • Is something wrong?

    Difficulty 4/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

    RhyOrg/RhyDB#1603 ·

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  • Add `extractYear` function
    Open
    • Is something wrong?

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

    RhyOrg/RhyDB#1602 ·

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  • Add `slice` functionality
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

    RhyOrg/RhyDB#1601 ·

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  • Add `x[a..b]` short-hand notation
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    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

    RhyOrg/RhyDB#1600 ·

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  • Add a `slice` function
    Open
    • Is something wrong?

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

    RhyOrg/RhyDB#1599 · 1 comment ·

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  • Add a natural join
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    • Is something wrong?
    good first issue

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

    RhyOrg/RhyDB#1598 ·

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  • Add `structPack` function and `struct` type in query engine
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    • Is something wrong?
    good first issue

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    RhyOrg/RhyDB#1597 ·

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  • Introduce identifiable units
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 22/100

    RhyOrg/RhyDB#1596 ·

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  • Efficient `in()` filter for non-indexed columns
    Open
    • Is something wrong?

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

    RhyOrg/RhyDB#1585 ·

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  • Add `avg` aggregation function
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    • Is something wrong?

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 28/100

    RhyOrg/RhyDB#1583 ·

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  • Constant maps should be detected to be executed after groupBy
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

    RhyOrg/RhyDB#1548 ·

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  • Allow CORS
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    good first issue

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

    RhyOrg/RhyDB#1540 · 1 comment ·

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  • Better guard `insertInto` for cyclic updates
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 32/100

    RhyOrg/RhyDB#1537 · 1 comment ·

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  • Windows binary
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 28/100

    RhyOrg/RhyDB#1528 · 1 comment ·

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  • Inconsistent null semantics: negation of equals disagrees with unequals
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    bug

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

    RhyOrg/RhyDB#1525 · 1 comment ·

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  • Move data manipulation APIs to query interface
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 28/100

    RhyOrg/RhyDB#1467 ·

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  • Enable dictionary-encoded columns with data-type `date32`
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 32/100

    RhyOrg/RhyDB#1463 · 1 assignee ·

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  • Fold map expressions into filter
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    • Is something wrong?

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

    RhyOrg/RhyDB#1433 ·

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  • Remove `randomize` logic from orderBy
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

    RhyOrg/RhyDB#1419 ·

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  • `make clean` should clean builds
    Open
    • Is something wrong?

    Difficulty 3/5 Half a day Newbie friendliness 52/100

    RhyOrg/RhyDB#1418 ·

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  • Rename `query_engine/operators` and `query_engine/exec_node`
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    • Is something wrong?

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

    RhyOrg/RhyDB#1416 ·

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  • Replace `fmt::format` with `std::format`
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    • Is something wrong?

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

    RhyOrg/RhyDB#1394 ·

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  • Add let-expressions
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 22/100

    RhyOrg/RhyDB#1382 · 2 comments · 1 reaction ·

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  • Allow sequence batches to stream through query engine
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 32/100

    RhyOrg/RhyDB#1381 ·

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  • Add table literal to query language
    Open
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    RhyOrg/RhyDB#1380 ·

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  • `silo_app_test` should not use `src/main.test.cpp`
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    • Is something wrong?

    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 68/100

    RhyOrg/RhyDB#1365 ·

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  • Add mutationProfile distance result
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

    RhyOrg/RhyDB#1345 ·

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  • Aggressive Map Pull-up through Project, OrderBy and Aggregate
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

    RhyOrg/RhyDB#1336 · 3 comments ·

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  • Increase 32-bit row-limit
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    RhyOrg/RhyDB#1329 ·

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  • Server timing API
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    • Is something wrong?

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    RhyOrg/RhyDB#1313 ·

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  • Database and query result schema
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    • Is something wrong?
    epic

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    RhyOrg/RhyDB#1312 · 6 comments ·

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  • Refactor sequence columns to store immutable chunks
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    • Is something wrong?

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

    RhyOrg/RhyDB#1308 ·

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  • Value columns should zero-copy convertable to Arrow Arrays
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    • Is something wrong?

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    RhyOrg/RhyDB#1300 ·

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  • Refactor columns to store immutable chunks
    May be free again Open
    • Is something wrong?
    epic

    RhyOrg/RhyDB#1295 · 1 assignee ·

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  • Add an autocompletion endpoint for SaneQL
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    • Is something wrong?

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

    RhyOrg/RhyDB#1283 ·

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  • Add proper scalar expression parsing to SaneQL
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    • Is something wrong?

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

    RhyOrg/RhyDB#1273 ·

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  • Newick parser should correctly parse labels with escaping
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    • Is something wrong?

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

    RhyOrg/RhyDB#1272 ·

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  • Add a `delete` operator to query language
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

    RhyOrg/RhyDB#1265 ·

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  • Add common scalar expressions
    May be free again Open
    • Is something wrong?
    epic good first issue

    RhyOrg/RhyDB#1263 · 1 assignee ·

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  • Map Expression Pull-up
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    • Is something wrong?
    epic

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

    RhyOrg/RhyDB#1258 · 2 comments ·

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  • SaneQL optimizer improvements
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    epic

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    RhyOrg/RhyDB#1256 ·

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  • Allow trailing commas in SaneQL
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    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

    RhyOrg/RhyDB#1254 ·

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